Note: This page is under construction.
Over the coming months, we’ll use this space to bring clarity to key concepts and provide straightforward explanations of the terms and phrases you may have heard floating around.
We’re starting with one of the most common topics you've asked about: CCCV. We’ll break down what CCCV stands for, what it means in practice, and how it connects to your Freshwater Farm Plan.
Each Freshwater Farm Plan will look different, as on-farm actions will be tailored to consider each farm’s unique landscape, activities, and local catchment. This is where Catchment Context, Challenges, and Values (CCCVs) come in. The CCCV is a collection of material about the catchment where you farm. It will present your catchment’s unique physical features, such as soils, climate, and water quality. It will identify areas of cultural significance and sites and species that are significant to tangata whenua, along with what the local community (including you as a farmer) value and their visions for a particular catchment. This information will help you understand the environmental features, current environmental health status, cultural values, and priorities related to freshwater and recreational sites that are special in your catchment.
Right now, you do not need to take any action. It is the council's role to provide the CCCV for the catchment/area in which you farm. Your Catchment Advisors are presently beavering away, collecting and collating all relevant information relating to Catchment Context and Challenges.
In time we will present this information right here on this page in an easy-to-use format. This will include the ability to download mapping layers of your farm - including soils, landforms, rainfall, waterways, overland flow paths and much, much more. You’ll be able to pick the info you need, apply this knowledge to identify how best to manage or reduce farming impacts on freshwater, and include it in your FWFP.
Want a preview? Explore Tasman's Environmental Map Viewer for an early look at what’s coming!
📽️ This video provides guidance on how to use the map viewer.
Although it focuses on Council’s Natural Hazards Map Viewer, it works the same way as the Environmental Map Viewer — so the concepts are transferable. A guide specific to the Environmental Map Viewer is in development and will be available soon.
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