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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. [No. 121
3494 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. [No. 121 Classif!calion of Roads in Matamala County. Jones Road, Putarnru. Kerr's Road, Te Poi. Kopokorahi or Wawa Ron.ct. N p11rsuance and exercise of t~.e powers conferred on him Kokako Road, Lichfield. I by the Transport Department Act, 1929, and the Heavy Lake Road, Okoroire. Lichfield--Waotu Road. :VIotor-vchiclc Regulations 1940; the Minister of Tmnsport Leslie's Road Putaruru. Livingst,one's Road, Te Po.i. does here by revoke the Warrant classifying roads in the Lei.vis Road, Okoroire. Luck-at-Last Road, :.I\Taunga.- lVlatamata County dated the 11th day of October, 1940, and Lichfield-Ngatira Road. tautari. published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 109 of the 31st lvfain's Road, Okoroire. Matamata-vVaharoa Ro a. d day of October, 1940, at ps,ge 2782, and does hereby declare lWaiRey's Road, \Vaharoa. (East). that the roads described in the Schedule hereto and situated Mangawhero or Taihoa. Road. Iviata.nuku Road, Tokoroa. in the Matamata County shall belong to tho respective J\faraetai Road, Tokoroa. 1\faungatautari ]/fain ltmuJ. classes of roads shown in the said Schedule. J\fatai Road. MeM:illan's Road, Okoroire. lvlatamata-Hinnera. Road l\foNab's Road, 'l'e Poi. (West). Moore's Road, Hinuera. SCHEDULE. :Th!Ia,tamata-Turanga.-o-moana l\'Iorgan1s Road, Peria. MATAMATA COUNTY. - Gordon Road (including l\'Iuirhead's Road, Whitehall. Tower Road). l\1urphy Road, Tirau. RoAbs classified in Class Three : Available for tho use thereon of any multi-axled heavy motor-vehicle or any Nathan's Road, Pnket,urna. -
Strong Iwi Involvement in River Clean-Up Projects
DECEMBER 2018 A newsletter from the Strong iwi involvement in MESSAGE FROM river clean-up projects THE CE It has been a busy end of year for THE WAIKATO RIVER AUTHORITY HAS ANNOUNCED $6 MILLION FOR RIVER the WRA. We completed our 8th CLEAN-UP PROJECTS IN ITS JUST COMPLETED FUNDING ROUND, WITH MORE funding round and it was great to THAN A THIRD OF THESE PROJECTS BEING IWI LED. see projects successfully lifted from the Restoration Strategy Overall, a total of 38 projects have been The largest project to be funded this year that Environment Minister funded in 2018. is a continuation of the Waipā Catchment Parker launched earlier this year. Authority Co-chairs Hon John Luxton and Plan implementation which will involve Our advocacy for the Vision & Roger Pikia, say a feature of the funding working with approximately 70 farmers Strategy has been pursued across round has been a close alignment with the and landowners within identified priority a number of fora. We held our Restoration Strategy for the Waikato and catchments. The $1.6 million of funding AGM on the back of publishing Waipā rivers and the strong participation will work towards reducing sediment our 2017/18 Annual Report. We of River Iwi. levels going into the Waipā River and its have also received positive media tributaries. Sediment from the Waipā “In recent years there has been a clear coverage across several articles River is a major factor in reducing the trend for successful projects to reflect in as many weeks. One of these water quality in the lower Waikato River. -
Waikato River Adare Flood Hazard Report
The Adare Limited Company Limited Waikato River Adare Flood Hazard Report 17 May 2018 Prepared by Awa Environmental Limited for The Adare Company Limited The Adare Limited Company Limited Waikato River Adare Flood Hazard Report Project No. J000098 Document title Waikato River Adare Flood Hazard Report Document number 03 Version number 03 Date 17 May 2018 Project manager Craig Martell Author TonyTrueman Awa Environmental Limited 115 Tory Street, Te Aro, Wellington 6011, Phone:+64 04 455 0990 www.awa.kiwi Document History Version Date Description Author Reviewed 1 02/11/2017 Review TonyTrueman Craig Martell 2 29/03/2018 Preliminary Issue Tony Trueman Tony Trueman 3 17/05/2018 Review Tony Trueman Tony Trueman COPYRIGHT: The concepts and information contained in this document are the property of Awa Environmental Ltd. Use or copying of this document in whole or in part without the written permission of constitutes an infringement of copyright. iii The Adare Limited Company Limited Waikato River Adare Flood Hazard Report Contents Contents ................................................................................................................................................. iv 1 Introduction .................................................................................................................................... 1 2 1% AEP River Flooding Assessment ................................................................................................ 2 2.1 1% AEP Flood Hazard Extent .................................................................................................. -
Ashburton/Harakeke River Catchment E.Coli Modelling Project
Ashburton/Harakeke River Catchment E.Coli Modelling Project Ben Coventry Ashburton Catchment 1) River mouth 2) Urban area 3) Farmland 4) Hills and lakes A good proof- of-concept catchment within Canterbury. Goals and Objectives • Estimate baseline E.Coli loading in the Ashburton River based on measurements taken for swimming advisories. • Model the progression in E.Coli levels down the length of the river. • Determine significant indicators of E.Coli loading based on the model and other data. Current Progress E.Coli Counts on Ashburton River 10000 1 4 1000 2 3 100 5 6 10 7 E.Coli E.Coli Counts (MPN/100mL) 8 1 26/11/16 15/01/17 06/03/17 25/04/17 14/06/17 03/08/17 22/09/17 11/11/17 Date of Sample Collection 1) Heron Rd 5) Digby’s Bridge State Highway 1 Ashburton River Above Mouth 2) Lambie’s Stream 6) Hills Rd SH72 North Branch Heron Rd 3) Quarry Rd 7) State Highway 1 4) SH72 North Bra 8) Ashburton River Above Mouth https://www.lawa.org.nz/explore- data/canterbury-region/river-quality/ashburton- riverhakatere-catchment/ Dairy Farm in the Selwyn-Waihora Catchment by Connor Imeson 250 Hectares 1000 cows 54 bail-rotary shed Supply Fonterra Boundary Map Showing Locations of Wells , Pivots and Waterways Map showing Waterways Path from Farm to Lake Ellesmere The dark blue lines are waterways that flow through the property into Lake Ellesmere To do’s • Work out the travel time of the ground water from farm to lake • Work out travel time of surface water from farm to lake • Look at the Overseer results for farm Spatial Trends in Quality and Quantity Along the Waikato and Waipa Rivers By Shaun Morgan Waikato River Catchment and Waipa River Sub-catchment • Aim: To model downstream changes in river flow and quality indicators in order to examine the effects of the Waipa River on the Waikato River. -
Valuation of Water Quality Improvements in the Karapiro Catchment: a Choice Modelling Approach
Valuation of Water Quality Improvements in the Karapiro Catchment: A Choice Modelling Approach Dan Marsh And Ramesh Baskaran A Contributed Paper to the Australian Agricultural & Resource Economics Society’s Annual Conference, Cairns, February 11-13, 2009. Valuation of Water Quality Improvements in the Karapiro Catchment: A Choice Modelling Approach Dan Marsh1 and Ramesh Baskaran2 1Department of Economics, University of Waikato, Private Bag 3105, Hamilton, New Zealand, [email protected], 2Lincoln University New Zealand [email protected] Abstract Water pollution is widely considered to be one of the most important environmental issues facing New Zealand. Waikato region residents have reported that water pollution is easily their most important environmental concern in each of four attitude surveys conducted by Environment Waikato. Technical and regulatory mechanisms to reduce water pollution, especially non-point source pollution from agriculture are the focus of an intensive research effort both in New Zealand and internationally. This work should assist farmers and policy makers to identify the most cost effective options for achieving any given improvement in water quality. Research described in this paper aims to complement existing research projects by developing appropriate methodology for valuation of water quality improvements in New Zealand. It is envisaged that this type of information will inform the policy process by allowing decision makers to consider both the costs and the benefits of different levels of water quality improvements. This paper describes the first phase focussed on the Karapiro catchment which used focus groups and choice modelling in order to understand and quantify the value of water quality improvements in the catchment. -
Arapuni Finally Celebrates a Dam Good Job
Rassegna Stampa Mercoledì, 24 ottobre 2007 Arapuni finally celebrates a dam good job They've done a dam good job. That was the verdict from all quarters at the completion of the highly challenging two-year Arapuni Dam foundation enhancement project yesterday. In July 2005, Mighty River Power began work on the 80-year-old Arapuni hydro dam, 16km west of Putaruru on the Waikato River, to fix a seepage problem that was first identified in 1929. Yesterday, to the relief of the small Arapuni community, the dam roadway across the Arapuni Gorge, which connects the Waipa and South Waikato district councils, was finally re-opened. Speakers at the opening ceremony praised the "alliance" work of Mighty River Power, Italian foundation-engineering company specialist Trevi, and Brian Perry Civil, which carried out a precision-drilling programme to stabilise fissures in rock beneath the Arapuni Dam. South Waikato mayor Neil Sinclair said it had been a special project for the district. "Over the whole period, there was not one complaint from the community," he said. The $20 million Arapuni project attracted international interest because it was the first of its type to be undertaken world-wide while a dam remained operational. Mighty River Power project manager Tom Newson said the project took a year longer to complete than originally expected because of the difficulty in drilling 136 400mm interconnected holes up to 90 metres in depth from the top of the dam into the rock. The project won a Shell Environmental Excellence merit award at the New Zealand Contractors Federation 2007 conference in recognition of the efforts taken to minimise the environmental impact. -
Waikato District Council
WAIKATO DISTRICT COUNCIL Report and Decisions of the Waikato District Plan Hearings Panel REPORT 2 Ohinewai Rezoning 24 May 2021 Commissioners Dr Phil Mitchell (Chair) Mr Paul Cooney (Deputy Chair) Mr Dynes Fulton Mr Weo Maag Page | 1 Decision Report 2: Ohinewai Rezoning Report and Decisions of the Waikato District Plan Hearings Panel Page | 2 Decision Report 2: Ohinewai Rezoning Report and Decisions of the Waikato District Plan Hearings Panel TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 Introduction ................................................................................................................................... 5 2 The APL submission ...................................................................................................................... 9 3 Statutory and planning framework ............................................................................................ 15 4 Site suitability and physical characteristics ............................................................................... 18 5 Three Waters Infrastructure ...................................................................................................... 20 6 Natural hazards ........................................................................................................................... 24 7 Transport and traffic ................................................................................................................... 26 8 Economic effects ......................................................................................................................... -
Section 4 Te Wāhanga Tuawha Appendices
SECTION 4 TE WĀHANGA TUAWHA APPENDICES APPENDIX A - STATUTORY RECOGNITION OF THE REMP 175 APPENDIX A Statutory recognition of the REMP RMA 1991 For the purposes of the Resource Management Act 1991 (RMA), particularly of section 35A, Raukawa Charitable Trust confirms that it is the Iwi Authority for Raukawa and that the Te Rautaki Taiao a Raukawa, the Raukawa Environmental Management Plan (the Plan) represents the Raukawa Charitable Trust is to be considered the Iwi Authority for all relevant sections of the RMA. It should be noted that Raukawa Charitable Trust may, from time to time, delegate certain functions and implementation of this Plan to a subsidiary, delegated person(s), and/or other Waikato- Tainui entity (for example, the Waikato Raupatu River Trust). Such delegations are authorised and removed at the sole discretion of Raukawa Charitable Trust Raukawa Charitable Trust expects that the marae and hapū that constitute Raukawa are afforded the same status as Raukawa Charitable Trust when exercising their kaitiakitanga consistent with this Plan as if this Plan were written for their marae and hapū. Raukawa Charitable Trust also recognises that marae, hapū, and clusters of marae and/or hapū may develop their own environmental planning documents and Raukawa Charitable Trust is supportive of documents where they are consistent with this Plan. 176 TE RAUTAKI TAIAO A RAUKAWA With respect to the RMA it is noted that: (a) This Plan provides clarity to those Part 2 Matters in the RMA that are of relevance to Māori, in particular (but not limited to): (i) Section 6 – recognising and providing for: (e) the relationship of Māori and their culture and traditions with their ancestral lands, water, sites, wāhi tapu, and other taonga; (g) the protection of historic heritage from inappropriate subdivision, use, and development; (f) the protection of protected customary rights; (ii) Section 7 Other Matters – (a) having particular regard to kaitiakitanga; and (iii) Section 8 Treaty of Waitangi – taking into account the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi. -
Ecology, Management and History of the Forests of the Mamaku Plateau
Broekhuizen, P.; Nicholls, J.L.; Smale, M.C. 1985: A provisional list of vascular plant species: Rapurapu track, Kauri spur, and Rapurapu Gorge, Kaimai-Mamaku SF Park. Contributed by the Rotorua Botanical Society. Unpublished report held on file at Bay of Plenty Conservancy Office, Department of Conservation, Rotorua. [This work lists 135 indigenous species and 15 adventive species in the Rapurapu catchment, North Mamaku. It is arranged by lifeform within four vegetation types related to topography. Kauri (which is towards the lower southern extent of its range), six podocarp species and 47 fern species, which represents a strongly diverse fern flora for the relative size of the area surveyed, are recorded in the Rapurapu catchment, northern Mamaku. See Smale (1985) for botany of the catchment, and Bellingham et al. (1985) for botany of the general central and southern Mamaku Plateau—AEB.] Keywords: Rapurapu catchment, plant list, vegetation types, Rapurapu, kauri, Agathis australis, Kaimai Mamaku State Forest Park Brown, K.P.; Moller, H.; Innes, J.; Alterio, N. 1996: Calibration of tunnel tracking rates to estimate relative abundance of ship rats (Rattus rattus) and mice (Mus musculus) in a New Zealand forest. New Zealand Journal of Ecology 20: 271–275. [From the authors’ abstract:] Ship rat (Rattus rattus) and mouse (Mus musculus) density and habitat use were estimated by snap trapping and tracking tunnels at Kaharoa in central North Island, New Zealand. Eighty-one ship rats were caught in an effective trapping area of 12.4 ha. Extinction trapping gave an estimated density of 6.7 rats ha–1 (6.5–7.8 rats ha–1, 95% confidence intervals). -
A Study of Some Effects of the Wairakei Geothermal Power Station Upon the Waikato River
TANE 21, 1975 A STUDY OF SOME EFFECTS OF THE WAIRAKEI GEOTHERMAL POWER STATION UPON THE WAIKATO RIVER by G.J. Cox*, Sally M. Naylor f, and D.E. Thomson ft SUMMARY The effects of heated discharges from the Wairakei Geothermal Power Scheme upon the Waikato River have been investigated. Water temperature, oxygen content and mercury concentration were measured at a number of points above and below the station and aquatic life was studied (the data on the flora has yet to be fully analysed and can thus only be described briefly here). Marked local effects on both the aquatic life and paramaters of water quality were observed. However, although further investigation is warranted, particularly of the discharge rates of heavy metals such as mercury, the scheme does not appear to contribute significantly to the pollution of the Waikato River. INTRODUCTION A number of reports dealing with various aspects of the Wairakei Geothermal Power Station and its effects on the Waikato River have been published since the station became operative in the late 1950's. This work has recently been summarised by Axtmann1 who included a number of New Zealand Electricity Department reports in his references. However certain topics such as thermal mixing and the effects of the outputs from both station and bore fields on the aquatic life, have been virtually ignored. It was chiefly to provide some information on these that the present study was initiated. The study was confined to a single week in the mid-winter (11 to 16 August) of 1974. The power station-bore complex has two outlets into the Waikato River, the more obvious one being the discharge of cooling water used to condense the stream which is used to drive the powerhouse turbines. -
Meremere Roading Cases Tudy
1 Reference: Harmsworth, G.R. 2005: Roading Case Study: Transit New Zealand and Ngati Naho, Meremere œ Springhill Road. Contract to Opus International Consultants New Zealand Ltd. 6 pp. FRST programme: Roading enhanced by M,ori values and Knowledge (OPSX0301) http://www.transportco2.org.nz/ FRST programme: Roading enhanced by Mori values and knowledge Case study: Transit New Zealand and Ngati Naho, Meremere œ Springhill Road Garth Harmsworth, Landcare Research [email protected] Background Construction on a 100-m section of the Waikato Expressway (major 4-lane highway), between Mercer and Longswamp, was temporarily stopped in 2002 while a solution was sought between the parties, Transit New Zealand (Transit) and the local hap> Ng,ti Naho, regarding a significant cultural "taniwha" (a M,ori mythological creature) and wetland site. The issue was widely publicised nationally and internationally in 2002 when it came to the attention of the media. The small wetland and culturally significant site (~30 m by 20 m) was located between the existing road and the Waikato River, adjacent to the planned Expressway. Transit NZ had also identified the vicinity as having —higher environmental value than adjacent land“ (Transit New Zealand 2002b) and there was a spring feeding a small remnant of kahikatea trees ( Podocarpus dacrydiodes ) œ a fact never presented by the media. —While a lot of the area we are working on is in swamp, this section over about 30 metres appears to be a spring which may be significant for a large stand of kahikatea trees, which need to be protected“ (Transit New Zealand 2002b), —The discussions to date with Ngati Naho had focussed on how the Expressway could be constructed past this section in a manner which preserved the nature of the site“ (Transit New Zealand 2002b). -
Hortnz Submission On
COMMENTS ON PROPOSED WAIKATO REGIONAL PLAN CHANGE 1 WAIKATO AND WAIPA RIVER CATCHMENTS TO: Waikato Regional Council COMMENTS ON: Proposed Waikato Regional Plan Change 1 Waikato and Waipa River Catchments NAME: Horticulture New Zealand (HortNZ) ADDRESS: PO Box 10 232 WELLINGTON 1. HortNZ’s submission, and the decisions sought, are detailed in the attached schedules: 1.1. HortNZ wishes to be heard in support of this submission. 1.2. This submission is supported by a technical report that is to be read in support of this submission. The report has been lodged with the Waikato Regional Council via FTP file Transfer and is titled “Values and Current Allocation of Responsibility For Discharges” Jacobs Technical Report in Support of the Horticulture NZ Submission on Healthy River Plan Change”. 1.3. The Plan and this submission cover a wide range of issues and there are potential consequential amendments that will be required to give effect to the relief sought in this submission. Decision sought: 1.4. Other changes or consequential amendments as are necessary to give effect to the matters raised in this submission. 2. Background to HortNZ and its RMA involvement: 2.1. Horticulture New Zealand (HortNZ) was established on 1 December 2005, combining the New Zealand Vegetable and Potato Growers’ and New Zealand Fruitgrowers’ and New Zealand Berryfruit Growers’ Federations. 2.2. On behalf of its 5,500 active grower members HortNZ takes a detailed involvement in resource management planning processes as part of its National Environmental Policies. HortNZ works to raise growers’ awareness of the RMA to ensure effective grower involvement under the Act, whether in the planning process or through resource consent applications.