Final Report and Decision of the Board of Inquiry into the New Zealand Transport Agency Waterview Connection Proposal Produced under Section 149R of the Resource Management Act 1991 Volume 2 Conditions of Consent Published by the Board of Inquiry into the New Zealand Transport Agency Waterview Connection Proposal Publication No: EPA 25 ISBN: 978-0-478-34852-1 (print) 978-0-478-34853-8 (electronic) 978-0-478-34854-5 (CD) June 2011 FinalDesignationandConsentConditions 29June2011 Explanation The following integrated set of Conditions relates to designation and resource consents for the construction, operation and maintenance of the Waterview Connection Project (The Project). The Project includes: 1. The motorway extension of SH20 from Maioro Street (New Windsor) to connect with SH16 at the Great North Road Interchange, including two tunnels through Mt Albert / Avondale; and 2. The upgrading of the Northwestern Motorway (SH16) increasing its capacity (for private vehicles and improved bus lanes), and raising it to improve the resilience of the State highway network. The Project will take place within the designation boundaries outlined as Notice of Requirement 202 in the Auckland District Plan and as Notice of Requirement NZTA1 in the Waitakere District Plan. The majority of works of the Project falling within the designated footprint are authorised by the various designations. However, the following key areas of the Project are subject to a further Outline Plan of Works approval: 1. Northern ventilation building and stack (OPW1 – as shown on Figure DC.A); and 2. Southern ventilation building and stack (OPW2 – as shown on Figure DC.B). A number of supporting documents have been prepared for the designations and resource consents, including an Assessment of Environmental Effects, a suite of Specialist Technical Reports and a Construction Environmental Management Plan (CEMP) (a full suite of these documents and plans is set out in Condition DC.1). With the exception of the two areas identified for a specific Outline Plan of Works, the detail of these documents is considered sufficient to confirm the effects of the Project and a further Outline Plan of Works is not proposed for these areas. The CEMP is the key management document to ensure that the commitments given in obtaining approvals (including the conditions of this designation) are carried out during construction and that appropriate environmental management practices are followed. The CEMP will manage and monitor the environmental effects during the Project’s construction phase. The CEMP is made up of 15 specific management plans that address activities that have the potential to generate adverse effects over construction (e.g. noise and settlement), and set out how these will be monitored and managed. The construction environmental management framework is shown on Figure CEMP.A of the conditions. The community will have the opportunity to be actively involved and informed on the Project. A Communications Plan is to be developed and a number of community groups established. The community groups will be active throughout the construction and operation (monitoring) phases to provide a forum where concerns can be discussed, information shared and the community can review and provide comment on the detailed design development. Conditions 29June2011 NZTADocumentReferenceNo.20.1.11Ͳ3ͲRͲNͲ1024 Pagei In addition to the designation(s), there are a number of regional consents for the Project, including for works in the coastal marine area (e.g. reclamation, occupation and discharge), the diversion and discharge of surface water, stormwater and groundwater, for disturbance of contaminated sites, for works within watercourses (e.g. reclamation, occupation and discharge), and for land use activities (e.g. earthworks or land disturbance activities). In addition, resource consent (land use) has also been obtained from the Auckland Council under the Auckland City District Plan: Isthmus Section, for an activity on land which is proposed to be created by reclamation (pursuant to section 89(2) of the RMA). Schedule B provides a summary of all consents, their durations, and the conditions that are attached to each consent. The Waterview Connection Project area has been divided into 9 sector areas. These are shown in Figure A and defined as follows: That part of the Project that extends from the eastern abutments of the Henderson Creek Sector 1 Bridge to the western abutment of the Whau River Bridge including the Te Atatu Interchange. That part of the Project that includes work and structures over and within the Whau River Sector 2 and estuary. That part of the Project that includes the landward (southern) component of the Rosebank Sector 3 Peninsula including Patiki Road and the Rosebank Park Domain. That part of the Project that requires reclamation including along the Rosebank Peninsula Sector 4 and the Causeway between Rosebank Peninsula and Waterview. This sector includes parts of Traherne Island. That part of the Project occupied by the SH16/SH20 Interchange from the Waterview Sector 5 Reserve to SH16. That part of the Project that includes the additional lanes on the existing Northwestern Sector 6 Motorway, between the Great North Road Interchange and St Lukes Interchange (on SH16). That part of the Project that refers to the 'cut and cover' of tunnel from the northern Sector 7 portal at (Waterview Reserve), crossing beneath Great North Road to connect with the excavated or deep tunnel (Sector 8). That part of the Project that refers to the section of the Project extending northward from Sector 8 the Alan Wood Reserve (southern portal) beneath ‘Avondale Heights’ (the ‘excavated’ or ‘deep tunnel’ section of the Project). That part of the Project that refers to the southern tunnel portal in Alan Wood Reserve area (in the vicinity of Range View Road) southward to include the open or surface Sector 9 carriageway and pedestrian / cycleway (and associated mitigation works), through to the bridging of SH20 under Richardson Road and works associated with construction of the Maioro Street Interchange north facing ramps. Conditions 29June2011 NZTADocumentReferenceNo.20.1.11Ͳ3ͲRͲNͲ1024 Pageii Figure A – WaterviewConnectionSectorDiagram Conditions 29June2011 NZTADocumentReferenceNo.20.1.11Ͳ3ͲRͲNͲ1024 Pageiii Table of Contents Explanation...........................................................................................................................................i Table of Contents.............................................................................................................................iv Acronyms............................................................................................................................................vi General Designation (DC) Conditions........................................................................................1 Standard Resource Consent (RC) Conditions.........................................................................12 Construction Environmental Management Plan (CEMP) Conditions...............................15 Public Information (PI) Conditions............................................................................................23 Temporary Traffic (TT) Conditions...........................................................................................28 Operational Traffic (OT) Conditions.........................................................................................31 Noise and Vibration (CNV) Conditions – Construction.......................................................33 Noise (ON) Conditions – Operation..........................................................................................40 Vibration (OV) Conditions - Operation....................................................................................46 Air Quality (AQ) Conditions – Construction...........................................................................47 Operational Air Quality (OA) Conditions.................................................................................52 Landscape and Visual (LV) Conditions.....................................................................................54 Open Space (OS) Conditions.......................................................................................................57 Social (SO) Conditions...................................................................................................................68 Vegetation (V) Conditions............................................................................................................76 Avian (A) Conditions......................................................................................................................80 Herpetofauna (H) Conditions......................................................................................................81 Conditions 29June2011 NZTADocumentReferenceNo.20.1.11Ͳ3ͲRͲNͲ1024 Pageiv Lighting (L) Conditions.................................................................................................................82 Archaeology (ARCH) Conditions................................................................................................84 Ground Settlement (S) Conditions.............................................................................................89 Groundwater (G) Conditions.......................................................................................................96 Contaminated Land