Lindis Catchment Group Ltd Replacement of permits to take and use surface water Resource Consent Application and Supporting Information Prepared by McKeague Consultancy 15 November 2017 Quality Assurance Statement for: McKeague Consultancy Ltd | 16 Howard Street | Macandrew Bay| Dunedin 9014 Prepared by Susie McKeague, Matt Hickey, Sally Dicey Reviewed by Susie McKeague Approved for issue by Susie McKeague and LCG This document has been prepared for the benefit of the applicant for the purpose of obtaining consent from the Otago Regional Council. No liability is accepted by this company or sub-consultant of this company with respect to its use by any other person. All rights reserved. No part of this tool may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior written permission of McKeague Consultancy Ltd. © McKeague Consultancy Limited Contents Figures ................................................................................................................................................................. vii Tables ................................................................................................................................................................... ix Abbreviations used throughout this document ....................................................................................................... x Part One: Resource Consent Application Forms ................................................................................................... 1 Form 9 of the Resource Management Act .......................................................................................... 1 Application Forms of the Otago Regional Council .............................................................................. 4 Executive Summary ............................................................................................................................................... 5 Part Two: Supporting Information .......................................................................................................................... 9 1. Background context and overview of this application .................................................................................. 9 2. Introduction................................................................................................................................................ 12 3. Location of Activity .................................................................................................................................... 16 4. Physical Setting of Activity ......................................................................................................................... 26 4.1 Lindis River ................................................................................................................................................ 26 4.2 Climate ...................................................................................................................................................... 28 4.3 Soil types and Profile Available Water ....................................................................................................... 28 4.4 Efficient Allocation Based on Physical Setting and Crop Type .................................................................. 31 5. Overview of water management and use .................................................................................................. 33 5.1 Lindis Catchment Group ............................................................................................................................ 33 5.1.1 Water Use and Surety of Supply ............................................................................................................... 33 5.1.2 Rationing Regime and Group managed water .......................................................................................... 34 5.1.3 Nature of take patterns .............................................................................................................................. 35 5.1.4 Lindis Community ...................................................................................................................................... 35 6. Overview of water use in the Mid-Lindis Catchment. ................................................................................. 36 6.1 Emmerson Family, Forest Range .............................................................................................................. 40 6.2 McCaughan Family, Geordie Hills ............................................................................................................. 41 i 6.3 Davis Family, Longacre Station Ltd ........................................................................................................... 43 6.4 Lucas Family, Timburn Station .................................................................................................................. 47 7. Overview of water use in the Lower Lindis Catchment .............................................................................. 50 7.1 Lindis Irrigation Company .......................................................................................................................... 51 7.1.1 Water sharing by LIC ................................................................................................................................. 56 7.1.2 Outcome sought by LIC ............................................................................................................................. 57 7.1.2.1 If the minimum flow is set at 900L/sec ............................................................................. 57 7.1.2.2 If the minimum flow is set at 550L/sec ............................................................................. 59 7.2 Purvis Family, Cluden Station ................................................................................................................... 65 7.3 Rutherford Family, The Point ..................................................................................................................... 66 7.4 Smith Family, Tarras Properties Ltd .......................................................................................................... 70 7.5 Jolly Family, Kotiti ..................................................................................................................................... 72 7.6 Hayman Family, Pukemara ....................................................................................................................... 73 7.7 Lindis Crossing Station .............................................................................................................................. 74 Outcome sought at 550 min flow ................................................................................................. 75 7.8 Beau and Anne Trevathan, Lindisvale ....................................................................................................... 75 7.9 Bruce and Linda Jolly, Ardgour Station ..................................................................................................... 76 7.10 Cooke Family ............................................................................................................................................ 77 7.11 Rive and Reed Family: Cloudy Peak Pastoral Ltd and Wainui Pastoral Ltd .............................................. 78 Cloudy Peak Pastoral Ltd ............................................................................................................... 79 Wainui Pastoral Ltd ....................................................................................................................... 80 7.12 Small block owners on LIC Ardgour race: Glen Williams, Alistair Madill, Dry Creek Enterprises Ltd - Pauline and Michael Hyndman, McElraes plus others ...................................................................... 81 7.13 Tarras Farm Ltd ......................................................................................................................................... 82 7.14 Beggs Stacpoole ....................................................................................................................................... 83 7.15 Robert Gibson, Malvern Downs ................................................................................................................. 84 8. Legislative Analysis ................................................................................................................................... 87 8.1 Resource Management Act ....................................................................................................................... 87 ii 8.2 National Policy Statement on Freshwater Management (2014) ................................................................ 88 8.3 National Policy Statement for Renewable Energy Generation 2011 (NPSREG) ....................................... 91 8.4 Otago Regional Council Regional Policy Statement and Proposed Regional Policy Statement ................ 91 8.4.1 Regional Policy Statement and Proposed Regional Policy Statement ...................................................... 91 8.5 Otago Regional Council: Regional Plan: Water for Otago ........................................................................ 93 8.5.1 Status of Activities ....................................................................................................................................