Rangitata Diversion Race Management Ltd
Rangitata Diversion Race Management Ltd have applied to Environment Canterbury and Ashburton District Council for consent for the construction and operation of a substantial water storage facility and whitewater course; the abstraction of additional water from the Rangitata River; replacement of an existing fish fence; and to close and re-establish Shepherds Bush Road.
The joint decision of Environment Canterbury and Ashburton District Council has now been released. The decision can be read below.
For any queries regarding the decision please contact Alison Cooper, Consents Hearings Officer, at Hearings@ecan.govt.nz or call 027 5497 661.
- Final proposed conditions - CRC Fish Screen conditions clean - 30 May 2018 (Office Open XML Document, 98.36KB)
- Final proposed conditions - CRC Storage Pond conditions clean - 30 May 2018 (Office Open XML Document, 192.17KB)
- Final proposed conditions - ADC conditions clean - 30 May 2018 (Office Open XML Document, 71.38KB)
- Final proposed conditions - CRC Storage Pond conditions tracked - 30 May 2018 (PDF File, 1.18MB)
- Final proposed conditions - CRC Storage Pond - Table of Comments & Responses -... (PDF File, 1.5MB)
- Final proposed conditions, CRC Fish Screen conditions tracked - 30 May 2018 (PDF File, 700.36KB)
- Final proposed conditions, CRC Fish Screen - Table of Comments & Responses - ... (PDF File, 853.01KB)
- Final proposed conditions, ADC conditions tracked - 30 May 2018 (PDF File, 738.69KB)
- Final proposed conditions -ADC - Table of Comments & Responses - 30 May 2018 (PDF File, 664.87KB)
- Final proposed conditions - covering letter (PDF File, 314.34KB)
- Notes to the Proposed Conditions(PDF File, 8.3KB)
- Applicant Submitter Comments and Responses to 4 May Proposed Conditions (PDF File, 431.4KB)
- Applicants Proposed Fish screen conditions (PDF File, 665 KB)
- Applicants Proposed Storage Pond and Construction Conditions (PDF File, 1.1MB)
- Applicants Proposed Ashburton District Council conditions (PDF File, 606 KB)
- Covering letter RDRML Fish Screen and associated applications (PDF File, 500.55KB)
- Proposed RDR Fish screen and supplementary matters (AEE) FINAL VERSION (PDF File, 7.7MB)
- Annexure Two - Ecological Assessment (PDF File, 1.38MB)
- Annexure Two - Design Report (PDF File, 3.76MB)
- Annexure Two - Recreation Assessment (PDF File, 1.29MB)
- Annexure Two - Landscape and Visual Assessment (PDF File, 28.49MB)
- Annexure Two - Hydrology Assessment (PDF File, 3.55MB)
- Annexure Three - Archaeological Assessment - Clough (PDF File, 1.32MB)
- Annexure Three - Recreation and Tourism Effects Assessment - Greenaway (PDF File, 6MB)
- Annexure Three - Klondyke Construction Methodology Report - MWH (PDF File, 29.85MB)
- Annexure Three - Dam Break Report - MWH (PDF File, 5.74MB)
- Annexure Three - Economic Assessment - AERU (PDF File, 978.2KB)
- Annexure Three - Water Quality and Aquatic Ecology Assessment (PDF File, 5.3MB)
- Annexure Three - Hydrology Assessment - PDP (PDF File, 10.26MB)
- Annexure Four - Ashburton District Plan Analysis (PDF File, 173.72KB)
- Annexure Four - LWRP Rule Analysis Emergency Discharge (PDF File, 81.58KB)
- Annexure Four - LWRP Rule Analysis Fish Screen (PDF File, 239.44KB)
- Annexure Four - Water Conservation Order (PDF File, 117.84KB)
- Annexure Five - Ashburton District Plan (PDF File, 69.62KB)
- Annexure Five - Iwi Planning Documents (PDF File, 55.4KB)
- Annexure Five - Canterbury Land and Water Regional Plan (PDF File, 83.71KB)
- Annexure Five - Canterbury Regional Policy Statement (PDF File, 110.52KB)
- Annexure Five - National Policy Statement Freshwater Management (DUPLICATE) (PDF File, 76.29KB)
- Annexure Six - ADC Resource Consent Application form (PDF File, 1.5MB)
- Annexure Six - CON 499 Application for Resource Consent RDRML Use of Water (PDF File, 468.86KB)
- Annexure Six - CON020 Application for Consent RDRML Fish Screen and associated activities (PDF File, 1.32MB)
- Annexure Six - CON499 Application for Consent RDRML Fish Screen & associated activities (PDF File, 1.14MB)
The Canterbury Regional Council and Ashburton District Council have received an application from Rangitata Diversion Race Management Limited (RDRML) for a suite of resource consents to construct, maintain and operate a large water storage facility (which could store up to 53 million cubic metres) on the eastern side of the Rangitata River near Klondyke. The water storage facility will be located adjacent to Montalto Road, at or about map reference Topo50 BY19:6150-4409.
The water storage facility is expected to supply water for a variety of purposes. Water from the facility will be made available to existing irrigators (to improve their reliability) and may be made available for additional irrigation (in mid-Canterbury and south Canterbury) as well as for projects such as Targeted Stream Augmentation and Managed Aquifer Recharge. Resource consent is, however, only being sought for the water storage facility and a series of associated activities (refer below). The use of the water from the water storage facility will be subject to resource consent applications or will occur in accordance with existing resource consents.
In addition, RDRML has sought the resource consent necessary for it to
a. Take an additional 10 cubic metres per second from the Rangitata River, when the flow exceeds 142.6 cumecs;
b. Raise the bund height of, and/or widen a reach of the Rangitata Diversion Race canal so it can convey the proposed additional take from the Rangitata River to the proposed water storage facility;
c. Replace the existing 'BAFF' fish screen with an engineered bund/infiltration gallery, and to construct a new fish return channel;
d. Construct and operate a whitewater facility and associated amenities;
e. ‘Remove' a length of Shepherds Bush Road and re-establish it further to the South;
f. Make modifications to a series of intersections / the roads on the transportation networks leading to the proposed site of water storage facility;
g. Establish a six hectare ecological refuge, incorporating a lizard sanctuary, additional terrestrial habitat and wetland habitat on the lower terrace, adjacent to the Rangitata River;
h. Establish three landscape buffers; and
i. Construct an emergency spillway/sluicing channel within the banks and bed of the Rangitata River.
The application includes an assessment of effects. The applicant has applied for the following resource consents from:
CRC170651 – a land use consent for earthworks on the lower terrace, adjacent to the Rangitata River, to create a six hectare ecological refuge comprising of one hectare of lizard habitat, two hectares of native planting and three hectares of constructed wetland. In addition, earthworks are required to construct the gully race, drop structure for the whitewater course and the river outlet channel.
CRC170652 – a land use consent for earthworks to construct the 53 million cubic metre storage pond; to upgrade part of the Rangitata Diversion Race (RDR) Canal; and to construct a 460 metre long fish bypass channel.
CRC170653 – a land use consent to disturb, and to remove vegetation from, the bed of the Rangitata River for the purposes of constructing a sluice outlet and fish bypass channel.
CRC170654 – a water permit to abstract an additional 10 cumecs from the Rangitata River, when the flows exceed 142.6 cumecs (as measured at Klondyke). The additional abstraction will be used to fill the storage pond and to provide supply to the RDR.
CRC170655 – a water permit to take and use surface water at a rate not exceeding 0.5 cumecs from the Rangitata Diversion Race canals for construction purposes (i.e. dust suppression).
CRC170656 – a water permit to take groundwater for dewatering purposes. Dewatering will only be required on the lower terrace where earthworks are being undertaken to create the ecological habitat.
CRC170657 – a water permit to dam up to 53 million cubic metres of water outside of the riverbed.
CRC170658 – a discharge permit to discharge dust to air from construction activities.
CRC170659 – a discharge permit to discharge contaminants to air from the combustion of diesel from a generator during construction.
CRC170660 – a discharge permit to discharge construction-phase stormwater and dewatering water to land via sediment retention ponds and soakage pits.
CRC170661 – a discharge permit to discharge water and sediment from the storage pond to the Rangitata River via a sluicing channel/emergency spillway.
CRC170662 – a discharge permit to temporarily discharge water and sediment in the Rangitata River as a result of the works to be undertaken under resource consent CRC170653.A duration of 35 years has been sought for all consents. A lapse period of 35 years has also been sought for all the consents.
A lapse period of 35 years has been sought for all the consents.
Further to this, resource consent is required under the Resource Management (National Environmental Standard for Assessing and Managing Contaminants in Soil to Protect Human Health) Regulations 2011 for the disturbance of soil.
- Application - Environment Canterbury - discharge stormwater into land
- Application - Environment Canterbury - Discharge stormwater into surface water
- Application - Environment Canterbury - for Resource Consent
- Application - Environment Canterbury - Works within 7.5 metres of Beds of Lakes and Rivers
- Application - Ashburton District Council Resource Consent Application form.PDF
- Assessment of Environmental Effects
- Assessment of Environmental Effects Glossary.PDF
- AEE Annexure 2 - Dam Break Report.PDF
- AEE Annexure 2 - Klondyke Construction Methodology Report Appendix A Part1
- AEE Annexure 2 - Klondyke Construction Methodology Report Appendix A Part2
- AEE Annexure 2 - Klondyke Construction Methodology Report Appendix A Part3
- AEE Annexure 2 - Klondyke Construction Methodology Report.PDF
- AEE Annexure 2 - White Water Course Construction Methodology.PDF
- AEE Annexure 2 - Air Discharges.PDF
- AEE Annexure 2 - Canal Modification - Fish Screen Report UPDATED.PDF
- AEE Annexure 2 - Cultural Values for the Rangitata Catchment.PDF
- AEE Annexure 2 - Dam Break Flood Inundation Area Drawing.PDF
- AEE Annexure 2 - Dust Management Plan.PDF
- AEE Annexure 2 - Ground Water Assessment.PDF
- AEE Annexure 2 - Klondyke Engineering Report.PDF
- AEE Annexure 2 - Landscapes Assessment
- AEE Annexure 2 - Landscapes Assessment - Annexure 1.PDF
- AEE Annexure 2 - Landscapes Assessment - Visual Simulations
- AEE Annexure 2 - Noise Assessment.PDF
- AEE Annexure 2- Recreation and Tourism Effects Assessment.PDF
- AEE Annexure 2 - Smoke Management Plan.PDF
- AEE Annexure 2 - Terrestrial Ecology Assessment.PDF
- AEE Annexure 2 - Water Quality & Aquatic Assessment.PDF
- AEE Annexure 2- Archaeological Assessment.PDF
- AEE Annexure 2- Canal Modifications - Engineering.PDF
- AEE Annexure 2- Economic Assessment.PDF
- AEE Annexure 2- Hydrology Assessment.PDF
- AEE Annexure 2- Transportation Assessment Report Part1
- AEE Annexure 2- Transportation Assessment Report Part2
- AEE Annexure 2- Transportation Assessment Report Part3
- AEE Annexure 2- Transportation Assessment Report Part4
- AEE Annexure 2- Transportation Assessment Report Part5
- AEE Annexure 2- Transportation Assessment Report Part6
- AEE Annexure 3 - Canal Modifications Fish Screen.PDF
- AEE Annexure 3 - Canal Modifications Plan and Long Section.PDF
- AEE Annexure 3 - Canal Modifications Typical Sections
- AEE Annexure 3 - Dam Break Flood Inundation Area Drawing.PDF
- AEE Annexure 3 - Klondyke Construction Methodology Report - Appendix A Drawings Part1
- AEE Annexure 3 - Klondyke Construction Methodology Report - Appendix A Drawings Part2
- AEE Annexure 3 - Klondyke Construction Methodology Report - Appendix A Drawings Part3
- AEE Annexure 3 - White Water Course Overall Layout.PDF
- AEE Annexure 3 - White Water Course Sections.PDF
- AEE Annexure 3- Canal Modifications Aerials.PDF
- AEE annexure 4 - Ashburton District Plan Rule Analysis.PDF
- AEE Annexure 4 - Klondyke NES contaminated land assessment.PDF
- AEE Annexure 4 - L & WP Plan change 4 Rule Analysis.PDF
- AEE Annexure 4 - NRRP Rule Analysis.PDF
- AEE Annexure 4 - PCARP Rule Analysis.PDF AEE Annexure 5 - List of Existing Resource Consents held by the RDRML
- AEE Annexure 6- List of BCI Existing Consents.PDF
- AEE Annexure 7 - List of Unimplemented Resource Consents.PDF
- AEE Annexure 8 - Policy analysis
Please note: the following files are large in size.
- Submissions Rangitata Diversion Race Management (A to C) (19.68MB)
- Submissions Rangitata Diversion Race Management (D to F) (24.19MB)
- Submissions Rangitata Diversion Race Management (G to J) (18.53MB)
- Submissions Rangitata Diversion Race Management (K to N) (13.94MB)
- Submissions Rangitata Diversion Race Management (O to S) (27.7MB)
- Submissions Rangitata Diversion Race Management (T to W) (44.37MB)
- First Minute of the Hearing Panel dated 29 January 2018
- Second Minute of the Hearings Panel dated 9 March 2018 (PDF File, 50KB)
- Third Minute of the Hearings Panel dated 16 April 2018 (PDF File, 53.79KB)
- Fourth Minute of the Hearings Panel dated 18 April 2018 (PDF File, 50.28KB)
- Joint hearing, Fifth Minute of the Hearings Panel (PDF File, 45.25KB)
- Joint hearing, Applicants Right of reply - ADC conditions 4 May 2018 (PDF File, 612.85KB)
- Joint hearing, Applicants Right of reply - CRC fish screen conditions (PDF File, 755.63KB)
- Joint hearing, Applicants Right of reply - CRC storage pond conditions 4 May 2018 (PDF File, 1.23MB)
- Joint hearing, Applicants Right of reply - Fish Screen Verification Management Plan 4 May 2018 (PDF File, 1.75MB)
- Commissioners Sixth Minute dated 10 May 2018
- Joint decision of the Hearing Commissioners - Decision report (PDF File, 1.73MB)
- Joint decision of the Hearing Commissioners - Appendix 4 to 22 Environment Canterbury conditions (PDF File, 8.3MB)
- Joint decision of the Hearing Commissioners - Appendix 23 Ashburton District Council conditions (PDF File, 38.65MB)
- Erratum to Decision (PDF File, 64.66KB)
- Commissioners Minor corrections to the Decision (PDF File, 114.52KB)
- Commissioners minor corrections Annexure A Environment Canterbury corrected conditions (PDF File, 8.23MB)
- Commissioners minor corrections - Annexure B Ashburton District Council corrected conditions (PDF File, 337KB)
- Commissioners Minor Corrections - Ashburton District Council corrected conditions - attachments Annexures A to C (PDF File, 38.14MB)