Kaiaio Irrigation Resource Consent 2022-15
Submissions closed at 5.00pm on 10 February 2022. The submission period is now closed.
Public notice of application concerning resource consent
Ōpōtiki District Council received an application from Kaiaio Irrigation Limited for the following resource consent reference no. 2022-15: The submission period has now closed.
Site Addresses: Multiple parcels from northern side of the Kereu River to south of Waikanae Stream, Te Kaha.
Legal Descriptions:
Maungaroa 4C1 | Maungaroa 1 Sec 25 | Te Kaha 2B2 | Te Kaha 23 |
Maungaroa 1 Sect 4A (river reserve) | Maungaroa 6 | Te Kaha 6B | Te Kaha 45B1 |
Maungaroa 1 Sec 6B | Pt Maungaroa 1 Sec 27 | Lot 4 DP 5298 | Te Kaha 40 |
Pt Maungaroa 1 Sec 7 | Maungaroa 1 Sec 28 | Te Kaha 11B - Te Kaha 15b2 | Te Kaha 56B2A |
Maungaroa 1 Sec 8 | Maungaroa 1 Sec 30B1 | Lot 3 DP - 6878 | Te Kaha 88 |
Maungaroa 22A No.2 | Maungaroa 1 Sec 34 | Te Kaha 16B1 | Te Kaha 42B2M |
Maungaroa 2 | Te Kaha 86 | Te Kaha 16B2 | Part Te Kaha 43 |
Maungaroa 1 Sec 24B | Te Kaha 85 | Lot 2 DP - 4194 | Maungaroa No. 1 Section 14 Block |
Project Description: Construction and operation of the Kaiaio Irrigation Scheme: Network Utility. The components of the irrigation scheme proposal which require resource consent from Ōpōtiki District Council are:
- Installation of water supply pipeline and associated components both above and below ground.
- Installation of sheds, the electrical supply and transformer, and associated control cabinet at the water intake site on the northern-eastern side of the Kereu River bridge.
- Works, including installation of a water reservoir tank within an Outstanding Natural Landscape (ONL1 – Ikawhenua Forest and Urewera Forest).
- Earthworks associated with installation of the pipeline, reservoir access road, reservoir tank site and on the fill site. Approximately 8,018 m3 of cut/fill will be undertaken constructing the access road and reservoir platform. Approximately 5,500 m3 of cut will be relocated to the fill site.
- Disturbance of indigenous vegetation for reservoir access road, reservoir tank site, gravity feed pipeline, fill site, installation of security fence at water intake site, and six stream crossings.
Note that the water take from the Kereu River has already been consented by the Bay of Plenty Regional Council.
The application includes an Assessment of Environmental Effects. The application may be inspected at the Main Office of the Ōpōtiki District Council, 108 St John Street, Ōpōtiki, during normal office hours. The application is available on the Council’s website www.odc.govt.nz.
If you have any questions about the application, please contact Laura Swan at LauraS@odc.govt.nz
Any person was able to make a submission on the application, but a person who is a trade competitor of the applicant may do so only if that person is directly affected by an effect of the activity to which the application relates that—
(a) adversely affects the environment; and (b) does not relate to trade competition or the effects of trade competition.
Submissions could be made by sending a written or electronic submission to Ōpōtiki District Council at PO Box 44 Ōpōtiki 3162 or by email to info@odc.govt.nz. The submissions were required on form 13. Copies of the form were available from Ōpōtiki District Council and on the Council’s website using the Submission on resource consent application form PDF.
Submissions closed at 5.00pm on 10 February 2022. The submission period is now closed.
Copies of submissions needed to be served on Kaiaio Irrigation Limited (the applicant), whose address for service is dwayne.mckay@thorntonenvironmental.co.nz or Thornton Environmental, 930B Thornton Road, RD4 Whakatane, as soon as reasonably practicable after serving your submission on Opotiki District Council.
Aileen Lawrie
Chief Executive
Date: 13 January 2022
Related documents
ODC Consent Application - Kaiaio Irrigation Limited - pipeline installation - AEE Report PDF
Appendix_1_Updated Construction Management Plan_Rev F PDF
Appendix_3_S92 and S88 response - Ecological - 14 November 2021 PDF
Appendix_4_Kaiao Irrigation Scheme - Biodiversity Mitigation Plan V2.1 17 November 2021 PDF
Appendix_5_Archaeological_Advice updated PDF
ODC s.92 Response_KIL_2-12-2021 PDF
C025542 NC1-Kereu Irrigation Scheme- site works response from Horizon 07-05-2021 PDF
Appendix 1_NZ18013-Kaiaio Irrigation Scheme Resource Consent Plans - Final PDF
Appendix 2- Kereu Reservoir VISUALISATION RevA PDF
Appendix 3_ Wildlands Ecological Asessment - Kereu irrigation scheme FINAL 08-07-2021 PDF
Appendix 5_Geotechnical Report 19-07-2021 PDF
Appendix 6_2020 01 30 Kaiaio Hapu Approval Signed PDF
Appendix 6a_2020 05 14 2nd Letter of Support for Kereu Irrigation Scheme PDF
