Resources & Research

• A Voice for the River: Collective Restoration by the Ōpāwaho Heathcote River Network (2024)
• Coastal Hazards and Climate Change Guidance – MoE (2024)
• Christchurch City Council Operational Pest Plant Management Plan (Draft 2022)
• Lower Ōpāwaho Heathcote Guidance Plan (2022)
• Environment Aotearoa 2022 – StatsNZ
• Coastal Hazards Assessment Summary Report (2021)
• CSNDC – Sediment Discharge Management Plan CCC (2021)
• CCC – Comprehensive Stormwater Network Discharge: Annual Report (2021)
• Cashmere Stream & Port Hills Working Group – Recommendations (2020)
• Christchurch City Council – Comprehensive Stormwater Network Discharge (2019)
• Hoon Hay, Cashmere and Worsley Valley Sediment Control Systems AECOM (2017)
• Opawaho-Heathcote River Catchment: Vision and Values (CCC, 2016)
• Improving Urban Waterway Health – Haytons Stream (ECAN, 2012)
• Surface Water Strategy (CCC, 2009)
• Mid-Heathcote River/Opawaho Linear Park Masterplan (CCC, 2009)
• Waterway restoration (CCC)
• Ferrymead Park Development Plan CCC 2007
• Heathcote River Floodplain Management Strategy (CCC & Canterbury Regional Council, 1998)
• Current Land Drainage Recovery Programme MAP

• Ecological Baseline Survey of Bunz Spring (EOS Ecology 2024)
• Cashmere Stream and Ōpāwaho Heathcote headwater springs | Waipuna Scoping report (2023)
• Christchurch Springs – What to do with them (2015)

• Coastal Hazards and Climate Change Guidance 2024
• Soil Conservation Guidelines for the Port Hills, B Trangmar (2003)

• Te Mana o te Taiao: Biodiversity Strategy DOC (2020)
• The iNaturalist Ōpāwaho Heathcote River Catchment Project species inventory has accumulated 6500 observations of 1300 species reported by 216 observers. You can add to this every time you go for a walk along the river!
• Ōpāwaho-Heathcote River weeds – Nick Head (2019)
• Lower Heathcote River Weed Survey (2019)
• Heathcote River Five-Year Aquatic Ecology Monitoring Report (Instream 2020)
• Aquatic Ecology of sites within the Heathcote, Estuary & Coastal, and Avon SMP catchments (Boffa Miskell, 2015)
• Aquatic Plants in Christchurch River Systems (2002)
• Whaka Inaka: Causing Whitebait (EOS Ecology)
• Ngāi Tahu Taonga species list

• Waterways, Wetlands & Drainage Guide (CCC)
• Christchurch West Melton Waterways Zone Committee (ECan)
• The Christchurch Waterways Story (Landcare Research 2011)

• Geological processes causing increased flood vulnerability (Tonkin and Taylor, 2014)
• Flood modelling of the Heathcote River, Christchurch (NIWA)
• Floor Level Map: Indicates Flooding in Christchurch in 50 and 200 year flood events. (CERA)

The Christchurch City Council monitors the environmental health of theŌpāwaho-Heathcote River through both water quality testing and ecology and sediment quality.

• Waterways Monitoring (CCC)
• Ōpāwaho-Heathcote River Health Report Card 2017
• Ōpāwaho-Heathcote River Health Report Card 2018
• Ōpāwaho-Heathcote River Health Report Card 2019
• Ōpāwaho-Heathcote River Health Report Card 2020
• Ōpāwaho-Heathcote River Health Report Card 2021
• Ōpāwaho-Heathcote River Health Report Card 2022
• Ōpāwaho-Heathcote River Health Report Card 2023
• Faecal Sources in the Avon Ōtakaro & Ōpāwaho Heathcote Rivers and Estuary (2015)

• Ferrymead Park Development Plan CCC 2007
• Heathcote River Walks: Walks that explore your city. CCC (n.d.)
• Proposed Cycle Way: Ōpāwaho ki Ihutai River Route. (CCC)