We are Amuri Irrigation, a farmer owned company delivering water to properties across the Amuri Basin, North Canterbury.

Your Irrigation Company

Amuri Irrigation Company (AIC) delivers water from the Waiau Uwha and Hurunui Rivers to 147 properties in the Amuri Basin. These properties support the families and businesses that make up our local community.

This is Us

Click the Play button to learn a little more about what we do out here, where we came from and our plans for the future.

Our team headed out on a glorious day in mid-2022 to create this short video telling the AIC story visually, and thanks to some superb weather on the day managed to capture the natural beauty of the Basin in all its glory. We hope you enjoy the sweeping vistas of our home as much as we do.

Three Schemes

  • Balmoral Scheme

  • Waiareka Scheme

  • Waiau Scheme

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We’re custodians of this land. We’re committed to this place for the long term, for this generation and the next.

Meet the Team

  • Sara Black

    CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

  • Claire Sullivan

    CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

  • Matthew Morgan

    OPERATIONS MANAGER

  • Rachel Vaughan

    ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGER

  • Susannah Gardiner

    BUSINESS SERVICES MANAGER

  • Mike Hennessy

    ENVIRONMENTAL PROJECTS LEAD

  • Erica Spackman

    OPERATIONS SUPERVISOR

  • Emma Hughey

    SCHEME OPERATOR

  • Darren Thomas

    SCHEME OPERATOR

  • Beavan Edwards

    ENVIRONMENTAL COORDINATOR

  • Joanne Pollard

    EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT

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“My family has been here for 60 years, and my children continue to farm this land... we feel lucky to live here. There is a lot of history and work that has gone before us, but there is still plenty to do”.

David Croft, AIC Chairman, 2016 - Present