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Cabinet papers showed Marlborough and Tasman could be split between two water entities to align with iwi boundaries. Like most of the South Island, Seddon and Murchison were part of Ngāi Tahu’s takiwā (territory), so had been added to Entity ‘D’ with other cities in the takiwā, such as Christchurch. The rest of Marlborough and Tasman had been included in Entity ‘C’, along with Nelson, Wellington, Havelock North, Hawke’s Bay and Gisborne. SUPPLIED Maps show Tasman and Marlborough could have their water assets split between two super entities. Maps suggested Marlborough and ...

Seddon gets its water from the Black Birch Stream. Photo: LDR / Chloe Ranford The water reforms could see Blenheim and Picton lumped in with the eastern and lower parts of the North Island, sharing the cost of water upgrades with the likes of Greater Wellington, Hawke's Bay and Gisborne. Meanwhile, people in Seddon and Ward, in South Marlborough, could be splitting bills with the rest of the South Island, including Christchurch and Queenstown. As it stands, the Three Waters shake-up could, in the long-term, leave residents in South Marlborough paying $380 more a year in water bills than tho...

The worst sampled was Blenheim's Doctors Creek, with more than half its attributes falling below the national standard, including an ‘E’ for E Coli – a bacteria which indicated there was faecal matter in the water. To be given this grading, Doctors Creek’s faecal bacteria count exceeds the safe swimming levels more than 30 per cent of the time. Contaminants were likely coming from farm animals, ducks and maybe humans, according to a report from an environment meeting last month. The creek was also the only one to return high scores of phosphorus. The chemical was a favourite of al...