Consent-holder workshops feedback

Feedback, questions and answers from consent-holder workshops held 23 February 2010 in Leeston and Dunsandel (pdf 109 kB)

Decision

The Decision of the Hearings Commissioner on the review of Groundwater consents in the Rakaia Selwyn Groundwater Allocation Zone is issued:

Rakaia Selwyn Consent Reviews Decision (pdf 3.86 MB)

Summary spreadsheet (pdf 342 kB)

Contact the Environment Canterbury Consents Review Team

Officer's response report of Jacqui Todd

 Officer's response report - Part 1 - September 2009 (pdf 270 kB)
 Officer's response report - Part 2 (pdf 142 kB)
 Officer's response report - Part 3 (pdf 515 kB)
 Officer's response report - Attachments pages 1-15 (pdf 3.54 MB)
 Officer's response report - Attachments pages 16-44 (pdf 4.26 MB)

Further information requested by the commissioners

 Second Memo from Jacqui Todd to Hearing Commissioners - August 2009 (pdf 795 kB)

 Attachment 5 - Stream Depletion Assessments (pdf 87 kB)

 Memo from Jacqui Todd to Hearing Commissioners - 8 June 2009 (pdf 58 kB)
 Efficient and Reasonable Use of Water for Irrigation - Report U01/69 (pdf 358 kB)

Overview S42A report of Jacqui Todd

 Overview Section 42A Report (pdf 414 kB)
 Addendum to Overview Section 42A Report (pdf 38 kB)

Reference reports and links

• Proposed Natural Resources Regional Plan - Chapter 5: Water Quantity
• Canterbury Regional Council, 1998. Regional Policy Statement.
•  Environment Canterbury, June 2000. Guidelines for the Assessment of Groundwater Abstraction Effects on Stream Flow (pdf 4.88 MB)
•  Environment Canterbury, 2004. Groundwater Allocation Limits: Guidelines for the Canterbury Region. Report No U04/02 (pdf 2.35 MB)
•  Environment Canterbury, November 2005. Schedule WQN9 Revision.  (pdf 3.61 MB)
•  Environment Canterbury, June, 2007.  The Rakaia Selwyn Groundwater Zone – Technical Summary of the effects of groundwater abstractions on stream flows and the reliability of groundwater (pdf 142 kB)
•  Painter, David, May 2009. A Comparative Review of Two Methods for Estimating Seasonal Irrigation Demand (pdf 399 kB)

These Journals are available to view at the Engineering Library at the University of Canterbury:

• Hunt, B, 1999. Unsteady Stream Depletion for Groundwater Pumping; Groundwater, Vol 37, No. 1, pp 98 – 102
• Jenkins, C T. 1977. Computation of rate and volume of stream depletion by wells. In Techniques of Water Resource Investigations of the United Stated Geological Survey, Chapter D1, Book 4, 3rd Edition.
• Theis, C V. 1941. The Effect of a Well on the Flow of Nearby Stream. American Geophysical Union Transactions 22, No 3, pp. 734 – 738.

The Resource Management Act 1991. Consolidated version including the Resource Management Amendment Act 1995. August 2005.

Reports

Rakaia Selwyn Groundwater Zone – Technical summary of the effects of groundwater abstractions on stream flows and reliability of groundwater (pdf 143 kB)

Factsheets

Rakaia Selwyn Flowmeter Factsheet (pdf 36 kB)

Calculating Annual Allocation Volume using Schedule WQN9 of proposed NRRP (pdf 2.3 MB)

Information and agendas from cluster group meetings

16 September 2008 - Super Cluster Meeting

 Notes, questions and answers from the 16 September 2008 Surface Water Connection Meeting (pdf 53 kB)

25 August 2008 - Cluster One Meeting

 Notes questions and answers from the 25 August 2008 Cluster One Meeting (pdf 59 kB)

12-16 May 2008

Agenda for the first round of meetings on the 12 May 2008 (pdf 23 kB)

Presentation for the Rakaia-Selwyn Consents Review Process (pdf 297 kB)

Meeting Presentation (pdf 426 kB)

Other

Soil PAW List (pdf 250 kB)

Presentation - Jacqui Todd - Sept 2008 Cluster Meeting (pdf 243 kB)

Presentation - John Young - Proposed Tender Process (pdf 113 kB)

Progress Plan (pdf 13 kB)

Reliability of Supply of Ellesmere Tributaries (pdf 22 kB)
These graphs show the number of days that streams, in the Rakaia Selwyn Groundwater Zone, were on restriction under the existing environmental flows. The 0 in the table means that the stream was not on restriction or Environment Canterbury did not record that year.