Reading Time: 3 minutes After years of work, consultation and persistence, an Ashburton irrigation scheme has finally secured its discharge consent, bringing certainty to its 230 shareholder farmers. One of the bigger schemes in Canterbury, Ashburton Lyndhurst Irrigation Ltd (ALIL) is a farmer-owned co-operative delivering water through a pipe network to its farmers, irrigating 30,000 hectares of Mid Canterbury farmland. After an eight-year jou…
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