Plymouth District Council Expiry Date: 01 Jun 2026
Private Bag 2025, New Plymouth 4342 Review Dates: Jun 2022, Jun 2024
Activity Class: Controlled
Location: 76 Colson Road, Waiwhakaiho Application Purpose: New
To discharge stormwater and sediment arising from earthworks into an unnamed
tributary of the Puremu Stream
Rohe:
Te Atiawa (Statutory Acknowledgement)
Engagement or consultation:
Te Kotahitanga o Te Atiawa Trust Provided with application …
Bacteria levels
are measured at most sites, and cyanobacteria (blue-green algae)
levels at a few sites.
• In summer 2015/16, 72% of all samples met the Ministry for the
Environment recreational water quality guidelines for bathing water.
• Wildfowl and gulls are the major source of contamination at the two
sites found to routinely exceed the guidelines, near the mouths of
the Waiwhakaiho River and Te Henui Stream. Excluding the two sites
contaminated by birds, 94% of all
resource consents and processes
Water
Supply
Scheme
Resource consent Next Review Expires Activity Process
New
Plymouth
0672 - Discharge 2020 2026 To discharge wastewater from a WTP into an
unnamed tributary of the Mangorei Stream.
Raw water is abstracted from the
Waiwhakaiho River via Lake Mangamahoe.
The Waiwhakaiho River is diverted through a
tunnel to augment the supply of Lake
Mangamahoe. The consent for this diversion
(2053) is held by Trust Power Ltd - Taranaki
Annual Report 2022-2023 1 high 3236861
23-84 Lower Waiwhakaiho Airshed Monitoring Programme Annual Report 2022-2023 3 high 3234290
23-85 Ample Group Ltd Monitoring Programme Annual Report 2022-2023 1 good 3235646
5. For reference, in the 2022/23 year, consent holders were found to achieve a high level of environment
performance and compliance for 878 (87%) of a total of 1007 consents monitored through the
Taranaki tailored monitoring programmes, while for another 96 (10%)
Waiwhakaiho
and the Mangaehu Rivers were chosen as examples of waterways with large catchments and
multiple human impacts, arising in either the Egmont National Park or the eastern hill
country. The Waingongoro River was included in the programme as a river under intensive
usage with more recent wastes diversions out of the river, and the Waiongana Stream as a
stream from which there is a major water abstraction (although not currently exercised). The
Timaru, Mangaoraka, Waiokura (added in 2007) and
at 57 sites in 25 rivers and streams. The Hangatahua (Stony)
River was selected as a river with high conservation value and the Maketawa Stream was
identified in the Regional Freshwater Plan for its regionally important recreational value.
The Waitara, Manganui, Patea, Waiwhakaiho and the Mangaehu Rivers were chosen as
examples of waterways with large catchments and multiple human impacts. The
Waingongoro River was included in the programme as a river under intensive usage with
more recent
selected as a river
with high conservation value and the Maketawa Stream was identified in the Regional
Freshwater Plan for its regionally important recreational value. The Waitara, Manganui,
Patea, Waiwhakaiho and the Mangaehu Rivers were chosen as examples of waterways with
large catchments and multiple human impacts. The Waingongoro River was included in the
programme as a river under intensive usage with more recent wastes diversions out of the
river, and the Waiongana Stream as a stream from
Policy & Planning Committee agenda July 2019
To discharge wastewater from a WTP into an unnamed
tributary of the Mangorei Stream.
Raw water is abstracted from the Waiwhakaiho River via
Lake Mangamahoe. The Waiwhakaiho River is diverted
through a tunnel to augment the supply of Lake
Mangamahoe. The consent for this diversion (2053) is
held by Trust Power Ltd - Taranaki Generation and
monitoring of this is included in the Mangamahoe Power
Scheme monitoring programme.
Two intakes in Lake Mangamahoe supply the New
Plymouth WTP.