17 November 2015
T I Perry & Sons 1440 Rakaia Barrhill Methven Road RD 12 Rakaia 7782
Dear Sir/Madam
NOTICE OF RESOURCE CONSENT DECISION(S)
RECORD NO: CRC162204 NAME: T I Perry & Sons
The decision of Environment Canterbury is to grant your application(s) on the terms and conditions specified in the attached resource consent document(s). Your resource consent(s) commences from the date of this letter advising you of the decision. The reasons for the decision are:
1. The proposed activity does not conflict with the purpose of the RM Act given the conditions.
For some activities a report is prepared, with officer recommendations, to provide information to the decision makers. If you require a copy of the report please contact our Customer Services section.
If you do not agree with the consent authority decision, you may object to the whole or any part. Notice of any objection must be in writing and lodged with Environment Canterbury within 15 working days of receipt of this decision.
Alternatively you may appeal to the Environment Court, PO Box 2069, Christchurch. The notice of appeal must be lodged with the Court within 15 working days of receipt of this decision, with a copy forwarded to Environment Canterbury within the same timeframe. If you appeal this decision, the commencement date will then be the date on which the decision on the appeal is determined. If you are in any doubt about the correct procedures, you should seek legal advice.
Our Ref: CRC162204 Your Customer No: EC114453,EC109079 Contact: Customer Services
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Charges, set in accordance with section 36 of the Resource Management Act 1991, shall be paid to the Regional Council for the carrying out of its functions in relation to the administration, monitoring and supervision of resource consents and for the carrying out of its functions under section 35 of the Act.
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Yours sincerely
CONSENTS PLANNING SECTION
CC Address:
Pattle Delamore Partners Ltd Attn To: Emily Barton PO Box 389 Christchurch 8140
RESOURCE CONSENT CRC162204 Pursuant to Section 104 of the Resource Management Act 1991
The Canterbury Regional Council (known as Environment Canterbury)
GRANTS TO: T I Perry & Sons
A WATER PERMIT: To take and use groundwater.
CHANGE TAKES EFFECT 17 Nov 2015 DATE :
EXPIRY DATE: 24 Aug 2040
LOCATION: 1440 Rakaia Barrhill Methven Road, Rakaia
SUBJECT TO THE FOLLOWING CONDITIONS:
1 Water shall only be taken from bore L36/1752 and associated gallery, 500 millimetres diameter and eight metres deep, at or about map reference Topo50 BX21:0931-6281 (NZMS 260 L36:1930-2443), or at the Barhill Intake authorised by consent CRC143165 (or any subsequent consent) at or about map reference Topo50 BX21:0704-6486 (NZMS 260 L36:1702-2647) at a rate not exceeding 115 litres per second.
2 The volume of water taken, in accordance with this consent CRC162204 and CRC032099.3 (or subsequent consents), between 1st July and the following 30th June shall not exceed 1,749,600 cubic metres.
3 The taking of water in terms of this consent CRC162204 and consent CRC032099.3 (or subsequent consents) shall not exceed a combined rate of 225 litres per second.
4 Water may be taken at a different rate to that specified in the conditions of this consent whenever the Canterbury Regional Council in consultation with a Water Users Group involving two or more consent holders who have determined upon a water sharing regime which complies with the National Water Conservation (Rakaia River) Order 1988, and
a. All consent holders in the Water Users Group are recording their rate of water abstraction by tamper-proof electronic reading systems such that the abstraction rate and volume of water is measured at least once every 15 minutes, and a record is made at a remote location via telemetry of the recorded abstraction rate and volume; and
b. The recorded data shall not be changed or deleted by any person, unless twelve months have passed since the date of recording; and
c. The measuring and recording devices shall be available for inspection at all times by the Canterbury Regional Council subject to providing adequate protection against vandalism which may require the consent holder’s assistance on site to unlock or remove barriers.
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d. All data from the recording devices shall be provided to the Canterbury Regional Council on request.
e. Four months after the commencement of the Water User Group sharing and during every second year of Water User Group sharing thereafter, the consent holder shall provide a certificate to the Canterbury Regional Council Attention: RMA Monitoring and Compliance Manager, signed by a suitably qualified person certifying the accuracy of the measuring and recording devices; then the taking of water in accordance with that determination shall be deemed to be in compliance with all the water allocation requirements of this consent.
5 Water shall be used only for irrigation of crops and pasture for grazing sheep and beef cattle, as described in the application, on the area of land shown in attached Plan CRC162204.
6 a. The consent holder shall, by 1 July 2006 install, or provide for the installation of:
i. An easily accessible straight pipe(s), of a length at least 15 times the diameter of the pipe, and a measuring device(s) such as a water meter with pulse output which will measure the rate and volume at which water is taken to within an accuracy of plus or minus five percent, as part of the pump outlet plumbing, or within the mainline distribution system, at a location(s) that will ensure the total take of water is measured; and
ii. A tamper-proof electronic recording device such as a data logger(s) with the capacity to hold at least one season’s data of water taken as specified in clauses (c) (i) and (c) (ii), or which is telemetered, as specified in clause (c) (iii).
b.
i. From 1 July 2006 the measuring device(s) shall be used to continuously measure the volume of water abstracted in accordance with conditions 1 and 2; and
ii. The recording device(s) installed in accordance with clause (a) (ii) shall be used to continuously record the volume abstracted and hours of operation. Each pulse or event from the measuring device shall be time stamped in the recording device at no greater than 15 minute intervals.
c. While complying with clause (a) (ii), the recording device(s) shall:
i. be set to wrap the data from the measuring device(s) such that the oldest data will be automatically overwritten by the newest data (i.e. cyclic recording); or
ii. store the entire season’s data in each 12 month period from 1 July to 30 June in the following year, which the consent holder shall then download and store in a commonly used format and provide to the Canterbury Regional Council upon request in a form and to a standard specified in writing by the Canterbury Regional Council; or
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iii. shall be connected to a telemetry system which collects and stores all of the data continuously with a independent network provider who will make that data available in a commonly used format at all times to the Canterbury Regional Council and the consent holder.
No data in the recording device(s) shall be deliberately changed or deleted.
d. The measuring and recording devices shall be accessible to the Canterbury Regional Council at all times for inspection and/or data retrieval.
e. The measuring and recording devices shall be installed and maintained throughout the duration of the consent in accordance with the manufacturer’s instructions, if any.
f. Within one month of the installation of the measuring or recording device(s) or any subsequent replacement measuring or recording device(s), and at five-yearly intervals thereafter, and at any time when requested by the Canterbury Regional Council, the consent holder shall provide a certificate to the Canterbury Regional Council, to the attention of the RMA Compliance & Enforcement Section, signed by a suitably qualified person certifying:
i. the accuracy of the measuring and recording devices installed in accordance with clause (a); and
ii. that data from the recording device(s) can be readily accessed and/or retrieved in accordance with clauses (c) and (d).
g. All practicable measures shall be taken to ensure that the water measuring and recording devices are fully functional at all times.
7 Whenever the flow (expressed in cubic metres per second) in the Rakaia River, as estimated by the Canterbury Regional Council from Measurements at either the gorge recorder site (at or about map reference NZMS 260 K35:015-424) or the recorder site at Fighting Hill (at or about Map reference NZMS 260 K35:997-437), falls below the following flows, the taking of water in terms of this permit from the Barhill Intake shall cease.
Month JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC
Flow 124 108 105 97 95 96 91 92 90 106 129 139
8 The consent holder shall take all practicable steps to: a. ensure that the volume of water used for irrigation does not exceed that required for the soil to reach field capacity; and
b. avoid leakage from pipes and structures; and
c. avoid the use of water onto non-productive land such as impermeable surfaces and river or stream riparian strips.
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9 a. The irrigation system used in association with taking water from bore L36/1752 shall not be used to distribute effluent, fertiliser or any other added contaminant, unless a reduced pressure zone backflow preventer is installed within the pump outlet plumbing or within the mainline to prevent the backflow of water into the bore.
b. The backflow preventer shall be tested within one month of its installation and annually thereafter by a suitably qualified person. A test report shall be provided to the Canterbury Regional Council within two weeks of each inspection.
10 The Canterbury Regional Council may, once per year, on any of the last five working days of May or November, serve notice of its intention to review the conditions of this consent for the purpose of dealing with any adverse effect on the environment which may arise from the exercise of the consent and which it is appropriate to deal with at a later stage.
Issued at Christchurch on 17 November 2015
Canterbury Regional Council
Plan CRC162204
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R E S O U R C E C O N S E N T S VERSION NOV 2009 FOR OFFICE USE ON LY Flowmeter, Datalogger Installation and Commissioning
TO: Environment Canterbury Ph: 03 308 7682 C/o Water Metering Team Fax: 03 365 3194 4 McNally Street Email: [email protected] PO Box 419 Ashburton 7700
Consent Holder: Consent number: CRC Well/SWAP number(s): Installation date:
Flowmeter details: Make: Meter size: (mm diameter) Model: Pulse output: Yes / No Serial number: Volume per Pulse m³/puls (Start) Meter Reading Volume: m³ (state units if different )
Datalogger details: Installed Yes / No Make: Model: Serial number: Telemetry installed for compliance: Yes/No Data hosted by:
Installation details: Pipe internal/external diameter: mm Pipe Wall Thickness mm
Pipe material: Ductile Iron, Mild Steel, PVC, Polyethelene, Aluminium, other : (circle ) Distance of straight, unobstructed pipe upstream of flowmeter (distance (a) in Figure 1): mm Distance of straight, unobstructed pipe downstream of flowmeter (distance (b) in Figure 1): mm Is there a straight unobstructed accessible pipe in the system of at least 15 diameters length to verify the flow with a clamp-on flow meter? YES / NO Location in system:
Figure 1: Installation diagram - Please mark any disturbances upstream of the flowmeter e.g. pipe size reduction, gate valves, pipe bends. Refer to Figure 2 for an example of a good installation.
R E S O U R C E C O N S E N T
Insertion meters only : Insertion depth: K-factor:
Ultrasonic meters only : Transducer size: Transducer spacing: Transducer mounting: V or Z (Please circle, V = Reflect, Z = Direct)
Accuracy details: Do you have a WET calibration certificate? Yes / No (If yes, then please submit the certificate .) Has the meter been checked against a portable flowmeter? Yes / No (If yes please fill in water meter verification form)
Certification: I/we certify that the above flowmeter and datalogger have been installed in accordance with Environment Canterbury’s requirements. That a wet calibration certificate from the manufacturer is attached to this form
That a water meter verification form is attached to this form.
That a picture of the installation is attached to this form.
Installed by: Signed: (by installer)
Company: Date:
Figure 2: An example of an Ideal installation of a flowmeter, including obstructions in pipework.
R E S O U R C E C O N S E N T S
VERSION NOV 2009 FOR OFFICE USE ON LY Flowmeter /Water Measuring Device Verification Form
TO: Environment Canterbury Ph: 03 308 7682 C/o Water Metering Team Fax: 03 365 3194 4 McNally Street Email: [email protected] PO Box 419 Ashburton 7740
Well/SWAP number(s): Consent Holder: Verification date:
Flowmeter/Water Measuring Device details: (if not already provided on installation and commissioning form) Make: Meter size: (mm diameter) Model: Pulse output: Yes / No Serial number: Volume per Pulse m³/puls Meter Reading Volume: m³ (state units if different )
Insertion meters only : Encountered K-factor in the flow meter : Correct Yes/No
Ultrasonic meters only : Transducer size encountered Transducer spacing: Transducer mounting: V or Z (Please circle, V = Reflect, Z = Direct) Correct Yes/No
Verification details: Is a clamp-on water meter used for verification: Yes/No (if no describe the method used) e.g. reservoir/time calculation, volumetric etc) Verification flow meter brand and type:
Verification flow meter serial number:
Last calibration date of the flow meter used for verification:
(Calibration certificates needs to be send in (once) after every (yearly) calibration to ECan )
Verification parameters:
Used parameters for verification: Pipe diameter: mm Pipe Wall Thickness mm
Pipe material: Ductile Iron, Mild Steel, PVC, Polyethelene, Aluminium , circle or other :
Location in system where the clamp-on was attached:
R E S O U R C E C O N S E N T
Measured flows: Undertake three separate observations and record and average the results in the table below.
Verification flows should be taken at or around the consented flow rate and/or the flow rate the well is usually pumped at.
If flows don’t verify within 5% a second clamp-on location can/should be attempted.
Location 1 Location 1 Location 1 Location 2 Location 2 Location 2 Average Observation Observation Observation Observation Observation Observation 1 2 3 1 2 3 installed meter flow: L/s verification flow meter: L/s
% Difference
Certification:
I/we certify that the above flowmeter/water measuring device has been verified and the measured flow is within 5% of the verification meter.
OR (circle one)
I/we have found that the installed flowmeter/water measuring device deviates more then 5% above/below the verified flow.
Recommend remedial action: ______
______
Verified by: Signed: (by verifyer)
Verifiers Certificate No *: ______
Company: Date:
* Each verifier will be registered by the manufacturer/supplier on having attended a verifier course for their equipment. ECan will keep a list of the approved verifiers and certificate numbers.