658747 658749
Estate Fee Simple
Area 4.9973 hectares more or less
Legal Description Subdivision 4 Section 1 Block V Huiroa
Survey District and Lot 2-3 Deposited Plan
486211 and Lot 6 Deposited Plan 476547
Registered Owners
Trustpower Limited
Interests
Proclamation 765 Excepting thereout such parts of the mines of coal or other minerals thereunder as are excepted by
Section 16 of the Public Works Act 1908 - 2.12.1925 at
effects of the Proposal. For
example, there is insufficient consideration of how Ngāti Rangi3 would apply practically at
the Motukawa HEPS without producing a fanciful and/or unrealistic effects assessment
which would further the panel and stakeholder understanding of the scale and degree of
effect. We accept that it is in essence an artificial exercise and can in some cases be
complex, but importantly in our view it must be undertaken so as to avoid a fanciful or
unrealistic
Limited
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Cover page: Manganui River immediately downstream of Motukawa Intake weir.
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characterise the discharges and to determine compliance with consent conditions.
This is the second monitoring report produced by the Council in relation to the hydraulic fracturing
activities at the Turangi-A wellsite.
The monitoring carried out by the Council indicates that the hydraulic fracturing activities undertaken by
the Company had no significant adverse effects on local groundwater or surface water resources. There
were no unauthorised incidents recording non-compliance in respect of
Kupara Road and Miro Road -
Penstocks and the
Motukawa Power
Station
Trustpower
Limited
Subdivision 1-6 Section 14 Block VII
Huiroa Survey District
TN116/143
4. The full name and address of each owner or occupier (other than the applicant) of the
site to which the application relates are as follows:
New Plymouth District Council;
Kenneth Watchorn;
Donald Hugh McIntyre, Linda Christina McIntyre;
Barbara Alison Hann, VBW Trustees 2013
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Trustpower – Activities and Conditions of the Motukawa HEPS 1
PROPOSED CONSENT CONDITIONS FOR THE MOTUKAWA HEPS
All resource consents for the Motukawa HEPS will be subject to the following general conditions:
GENERAL CONDITIONS
1. The conditions of these resource consents shall prevail except where:
a. The operation of any part of the Motukawa HEPS has been compromised as a result
of a fault in any generator, associated control equipment or the
continues to be an important resource for mahinga kai. Contemporary uses of
the site include cultural harvesting (fish, whitebait) and the site is valued because of its
biodiversity and conservation values. Te Atiawa has a physical, historical and spiritual
relationship with the Waitara River. All elements of the natural environment possess a
life force, or mouri. This is a critical element of the spiritual relationship of Te Atiawa to
the Waitara River which has a spiritual force
the Manganui River flow must be
passed over the weir or pass continuously through Lake Ratapiko.
There is a settling pond (Silt Pond) located on the Motukawa Race, approximately 280 m from the
Manganui River intake. The Silt Pond was constructed prior to 1950 (based on historic aerial
imagery), to reduce the amount of fine-grained sediment entering Motukawa Race and ultimately
Lake Ratapiko. The Silt Pond has a surface area of approximately 0.01 km2 with an average depth of
2.5 m, and an
the resource consent held by the
Company in relation to these activities or provisions in regional plans, during the period under review.
For reference, in the 2021-2022 year, consent holders were found to achieve a high level of environmental
performance and compliance for 88% of the consents monitored through the Taranaki tailored monitoring
programmes, while for another 10% of the consents, a good level of environmental performance and
compliance was achieved
This report includes
without Trustpower’s consent) stocked with trout by
Taranaki Fish & Game, but access to the pond is at the courtesy of Trustpower, and the continuation
of the provision of access by the neighbouring landowner is not encouraged. There is no formed
legal access to the pond or to the race (Figure 2). While the New Plymouth District Council owns
land located near the Manganui weir (not subject to the Reserves Act 1977), there are no
developments for recreation, or formed public access. Several