Water Hearing

End of Hearing - April 2010

• Legal Report of Mr John Maassen
• End of Hearing Report relating to Water Quality, FARM Strategy, Water Allocation, Groundwater, and Beds of Rivers & Lakes Updated 9.45am, 13 April 2010
• Updated version of page 43 EoH Staff report - Table 2 (formatting update) 19th April 4.19pm
• Updated version of page 66 EoH Staff report - Table 9  19th April 4.19pm
• Updated version of pages 52 and 53 EoH Staff report - Table 3 22 April 2010 9.00am
• Appendix 1 Comments in relation to Evidence of Mr Arthur Male
• Appendix 2 Technical review of the standards undertaken by Keith Hamill on behalf of PNCC
• Appendix 3 Expert Agreement on Water Quality Standards For Estuaries And Lakes
• Appendix 4 Advice from John Stark on QMCI Standard
• Appendix 5 Environmental Benefits of proposed Rule 13-1: Lakes
• Appendix 6 N Loads: Scenarios used to Model catchment outcomes
• Appendix 7 Estimated River N Loadings Under the Agreed Dairy Growth Scenario
• Appendix 8 Actual Periods and Flushing Flows for the Manawatu at Hopelands
• Appendix 9 Environmental Benefits of proposed Rule 13-1: Macrophytes
• Appendix 10 Soziak (2002) Paper on Nutrient Reduction and Macrophyte Growth
• Appendix 11 Response to implementation issues
• Appendix 12 Summary Table - Policy Planning Shifts

Tracked Changes - Yellow version

• Chapter 6 - Water
• Chapter 13 - Discharges to Land and Water
• Chapter 15 - Takes, Uses and Diversions of Water, and Bores
• Chapte 16 - Structures and Activities involving the Beds of Rivers, and Lakes and Artificial Watercourses, and Damming
• Amendments to Table 17.1 as a result of the Water End of Hearings Reports 19 April 2010
• Schedule Ba - Water Management Zones and Associated Values - Surface Water and Groundwater (due to size split into 3 separate documents)
  • Part 1 of 3
  • Part 2 of 3
  • Part 3 of 3
• Schedule B - Surface Water Quantity
• Schedule C - Groundwater Quantity
• Schedule D - Surface Water Quality Standards
• Schedule H - Coastal Marine Area, (CMA) Activity Management Areas, and Water Management Zone and Sub-Zones
• Glossary

End of Hearing Supporting Technical Reports

• Revision of Recommended Minimum Flows and Core Allocation - Mangatainoka, Turitea and Whanganui (Whai_1 and Whai_2)
• Appendix B to Revision of Recommended Minimum Flows and Core Allocation
• Permitted Activity Water Takes - Comparison of Options - Version 2 March 2010
• CD ROM containing Point Click of the Plan and User Guide

To request a copy of this CD please click here.

• Dr Barry John Franklyn Biggs End of Hearing Technical Report
• Dr Barry John Franklyn Biggs Revised S42A (showing tracked changes)
• Dr Alec Donald Mackay End of Hearing Technical Report
• Mr Jeremy David Neild End of Hearing Technical Report
• Mr James Lambie End of Hearing Technical Report
• Environmental Code of Practice for River Works, Horizons Regional Council - March 2010
• Memorandum and Replacement Pages 33 and 34 from Env COP March 2010

To request a copy of the CoP please click here.

Scope

• Report on Scope for Water Chapter Recommendations
• Appendix I Explanation of Scope - Schedule Ba
• Appendix II Explanation of Scope - Schedule B
• Appendix III Explanation of Scope - Schedule D
• Appendix IV Explanation of Scope - Schedule H

Response to Questions Raised

• Response to Hearing Panel Questions
• Appendix A Response LSC and Soluble Inorganic Nitrogen Questions
• Appendix B Further Explanation of Changes Between NZTM and NZMS
• Attachment 1 to Appendix B
• Attachment 2 to Appendix B
• Attachment 3 to Appendix B
• Appendix C Consent History and Development of Minimum Flow Recommendations - Raparapawai
• Appendix D Examples of 1 10,000 Scale Maps for WMZ
• Example 1 of Appendix D
• Example 2 of Appendix D
• Example 3 of Appendix D

To request a copy of Examples 1-3 as referred to in Appendix D please click here

• Appendix E Response to Evidence Raised by Submitters Regarding the Environmental Code of Practice

Material Presented at the Hearing

• Legal Submission and introductory statement of Mr John Maassen regarding the water sections of the Proposed One Plan 01 December 2009
• Dr Roger Graeme Young Revised S42A Report Tracked Changes Version 15 Jan 2010
• Dr Roger Graeme Young Revised S42A Report Clean Version 15 Jan 2010
• Written Statement of Points Presented by Kate McArthur on Jan 18th to the Water Hearing Panel Regarding Dissolved Oxygen Data and the Revised Evidence of Dr Roger Young 19 January 2010
• Manual for On-Site Wastewater Design and Management Tracked Changes Version incorporating changes across Versions 1-3 presented at the hearing 18 January 2010
• Speaking notes of Clare Barton regarding pointsource discharge rules and policies 19 January 2010
• Supplementary Evidence Provided by Dr Mark Shepherd 28 January 2010
• Amended Rule 13-6 FDE and Dr Houlbrooke's Evidence presented by Mr John Maassen 28 January 2010
• Meaning of 'individual' section 14 RMA presented by Mr John Maassen 28 January 2010
• Response to Miscellaneous legal questions presented by Mr John Maassen 28 January 2010
• Material Incorporated by Reference presented by Mr John Maassen 28 January 2010
• General Legal Commentary on Scope presented by Mr John Maassen 28 January 2010
• Speaking notes of Natasha James regarding the Beds of Rivers and Lakes provisions of the Poroposed One Plan 28 January 2010
• Response to Questions on Rule 13-1 and Related Policies and Rules of Chapter 13 (dated 29 January 2010) presented 1 February 2010
• Speaking Notes of Clare Barton - Non-point Source Discharges 1 February 2010
• Reply from Dr Ledgard to question raised by the Water Hearing Panel Received 2 February 2010
• Reply from Dr Parfitt to a question raised by the Water Hearing Panel Received 2 February 2010

Please find listed below Horizons Regional Councils officers’ reports and documents, including the supplementary reports, that have been prepared for the upcoming water hearing.

Horizons Regional Council Supplementary Officers’ Reports - November 2009

• Ms Julie Clare Barton & Miss Natasha Cacilia James - Supplementary Planning and Recommendations Report relating to Water Quality, FARM Strategy, Water Allocation, Groundwater, and Beds of Rivers & Lakes.
• Chapter 6 - Water
• Chapter 13 - Discharges to Land and Water
• Chapter 15 - Takes, Uses and Diversions of Water, and Bores
• Chapter 16 - Structures and Activities involving the Beds of Rivers, Lakes and Artificial Watercourses, and Damming
• Schedule Ba - Water Management Zones and Associated Values – Surface Water and Groundwater
  • Part 1 of 3 (Please click here for a corrected Map Ba2, Page Ba7 of Schedule Ba which shows the sub zone layer which was omitted from the pink version)
  • Part 2 of 3
  • Part 3 of 3
• Schedule B - Surface Water Quantity
• Schedule C - Groundwater Quantity
• Schedule D - Surface Water Quality Standards
• Schedule H - Coastal Marine Area, (CMA) Activity Management Areas, and Water Management Zone and Sub-Zones
• Glossary

View the Supplementary Evidence of:

• View Appendix 1 to Supp Evidence of Jon Roygard Permitted Activity Water Takes Comparison of Options
• View Appendix 2 to Supp Evidence of Jon Roygard
• Greg John Carlyon - Supplementary Evidence
• Dr Jon Roygard - Supplementary Evidence
• View the Supplementary Evidence of Mrs Kathryn Jane McArthur
• Corrected Tables 3 and 4 from the Supplementary Evidence of Mrs Kathryn Jane McArthur Received 9 December 2009
• View the Supplementary Evidence of Dr Barry John Franklyn Biggs
• View the Supplementary Evidence of Dr John R Zeldis
• View the Supplementary Evidence of Dr Robert John Wilcock
• View the Supplementary Evidence of Dr John Martin Quinn
• View the Evidence of Mr Graham Burnley McBride
• View the Supplementary Evidence of Mr Harold Ivan Barnett
• View the Manual for On Site Wastewater Design and Management November 2009 Version 3
• View the Evidence of Mr Hamish T Lowe
• View the Attachment to Evidence of Hamish T Lowe
• View the Evidence of Ms Fleur Jennifer Foster Maseyk
• View the Supplementary Evidence of Mr Peter Harold Taylor
• View Appendix 1 to Supp Evidence of Peter Harold Taylor
• View the Supplementary Evidence of Dr David Houlbrooke
• View the Supplementary Evidence of Mr Joseph Hay
• View the Supplementary Evidence of Mr Allan Cook
• View the Environmental Code of Practice for River Works November 2009
• View the Supplementary Evidence of James Stuart Lambie
• View the Supplementary Environmental Code Of Practice for River Works November 2009

Section 42A reports - September 2009

Overall water framework

• Ms Julie Clare Barton & Miss Natasha Cacilia James - Planning and Recommendations.Report relating to Water Quality, FARM Strategy, Water Allocation, Groundwater, and Beds of Rivers & Lakes.
• Appendix 1 to Planning and Recommendations Report - Summary of submissions. - Updated 3 September 2009 9:15am
• Dr Jonathon Kelvin Fletcher Roygard - General overview of technical material for water sections.
• Water Matters Video | Evidence of Dr Roygard | 01/12/2007 - 30/04/2008
• Water Matters Video | Evidence of Dr Roygard | 02/12/2008 - 30/04/2009
• Water Matters Video | Evidence of Dr Roygard | Tamaki Hopelands
• Mr Greg John Carlyon - Organisational context and justification for the directions taken and methods/approaches adopted in managing the Region’s water resource and rivers.
• Ms Helen Marie Marr – Summary response to Questions in Minute No 6.
• Mr Jeremy David Neild and Mr Anthony Paul Rhodes – Economic analysis of Rule 13-1
• Mr John Maassen - Legal report.
• Ms Maree Ellen Clark - Design of the water management framework, spatial representation of the water management values, the discharge monitoring programme, and proposed changes to Schedule D and explanation of proposed Schedule Ba. - Updated 1 September 2009 3:30pm

Tracked Changes (showing changes proposed)

• Chapter 6 - Water
• Chapter 13 - Discharges to Land and Water
• Chapter 15 - Takes, Uses and Diversions of Water, and Bores
• Chapter 16 - Structures and Activities involving the Beds of Rivers, Lakes and Artificial Watercourses, and Damming
• Schedule Ba - Water Management Zones and Associated Values – Surface Water and Groundwater
• Pages 1-29
• Pages 30-43
• Pages 44-144
• Schedule B - Surface Water Quantity
• Schedule C - Groundwater Quantity
• Schedule D - Surface Water Quality Standards
• Schedule H - Coastal Marine Area, (CMA) Activity Management Areas, and Water Management Zone and Sub-Zones
• Glossary

Water Quality

• Mrs Kathryn Jane McArthur - Overview of water management values and water quality standards, and state and trend of water quality
• Mr Barry William Gilliland - Historical water quality management, contact recreation monitoring and algal blooms associated with lakes
• Dr Barry John Franklyn Biggs - Relating nutrient concentrations to periphyton in rivers
• Mr Max Martin Gibbs - Lake water quality and review of standards
• Dr John R Zeldis - Estuarine and coastal nutrient enrichment, and water quality standards
• Dr Robert John Wilcock - Values and water quality standards review
• Dr Roger Graeme Young - Ecosystem metabolism
• Dr Robert James Davies-Colley -Optical and microbial water quality
• Dr John Martin Quinn - Water quality standards
• Ms Alison Frances Russell - Dairy effluent discharges
• Mr Logan Kent Bowler - Poultry discharges
• Mr Barry William Gilliland - NES for Sources of Human Drinking Water Regulations 2007 - Updated 8 September 2009 8.30am
• Mr Harold Ivan Barnett - Controlling discharges of contaminants to land and onsite wastewater management
• Manual for On-Site Wastewater Systems Design and Management - August 2009, Version 2
• Mr Alexander William Ormiston - Onsite wastewater systems design and management

FARM Strategy

• Dr Brent Euan Clothier - Agricultural water allocation, the nitrogen cycle, and the application of SPASMO and OVERSEER to inform policy
• Dr Alec Donald Mackay - Nutrient loss limits based on natural capital approach
• Dr Andrew Keith Manderson - Review of the FARM Strategy - Updated 3 September 2009 9:15am
• Mr Peter Harold Taylor - FARM Strategies and the consenting process
• Dr Mark Anthony Shepherd - Results and conclusions from test FARM Strategies
• Dr Roger Lyndhurst Parfitt - Projecting nitrogen inputs and outputs for New Zealand, and calculating phosphorus loss in the upper Manawatu River catchment
• Dr Grant Brodie Douglas - Land use capability
• Dr David John Houlbrooke - Best practice for land application of farm dairy effluent
• Dr Ross Martin Monaghan - Good environmental practice for farming
• Dr Stewart Francis Ledgard - How OVERSEER works

Surface Water Allocation

• Ms Raelene Ellen Hurndell - The water allocation framework, setting minimum flows and allocation limits
• Dr John William Hayes - Environmental flow assessment methods and use in forming policy
• Mr Gordon William Stewart - Water demand management and efficient use
• Mr Joseph Hay - Instream habitat modelling to inform minimum flows
• Mr Brent David Watson - The provision of information in relation to hydrological flow statistics and application of analytical methods for the purpose of calculating river flows in catchments that do not have long-term continuous flow records

Groundwater

• Mr Hisham Ibrahim Sabri Zarour - Managing the groundwater resource
• Mr Peter Francis Callander - Overview of the ground water resource and review of policies

Beds of Rivers and Lakes

• Mr James Stuart Lambie - Effects of activities in the bed of rivers and lakes on water management values
• Mr Allan David Cook - Scope and purpose of Environmental Code of Practice for River Works
• Environmental Code of Practice for River Works, Horizons Regional Council - August 2009
• Mr Allan David Cook - River and Drainage Schemes
• Mr Peter Lindsay Blackwood - Setting gravel allocation limits

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