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Appendix 5: Recreational Values

Appendix 5: Table A5-A: Recreational values of the catchment streams and downstream receiving waters

Catchment Is there swimming or other contact recreation and/or food harvested (eg, fish, shellfish) from the stream or downstream receiving environment?
Inchbonnie (T1) No specific knowledge of recreation on Pigeon Creek in the Inchbonnie catchment, but Lake Brunner (directly downstream) is a popular recreational lake (swimming, kayaking, fishing)
Waiokura (T1) No swimming observed – too small/shallow. At most farms families may fish for eels.
Rhodes (T2) Extensive recreational values in receiving water (Orari River); creek utilised as cultural (mahinga kai) harvest (eels, cress, etc) and trout fishery. No contact recreation sites.
Petrie (T2) Extensive recreational values in receiving water (Orari River); creek utilised as cultural (mahinga kai) harvest (eels, cress, etc) and trout fishery. No contact recreation sites.
Toenepi (T1) No specific knowledge, but the Piako catchment (into which the Toenepi drains) has been classified ‘contact recreation’ in the Waikato Regional Plan following submissions from the community.
Puwera (T2) No specific knowledge of recreation on the Puwera Stream but considered unlikely. Discharges into Otaika Stream, which is tidal. Recreational activities probably include kayaking and contact recreation. There is no shellfish gathering in the Otaika Stream.
Washpool (T2) Swimming and fishing in receiving river (Pomahaka River), trout and eels
Waikakahi (T1) Trout and salmon spawning and fishery. Also cultural harvest. No contact recreation sites.
Powell (T2) One potential swimming hole on Powell Creek but poor access. Motupipi River – fishing (whitebaiting and mulleting); not highly valued for swimming because water cold but is likely to affect coastal beach water quality downstream at Rototai.
Enaki (T2) Some contact recreation occurs downstream in the Mangatarere Stream, although this is not a significant waterway for recreation compared with the Waiohine River further downstream.
Bog Burn (T1) Contact recreation (fishing, swimming, jet skiing, boating, etc) in the Oreti River (downstream). Fishing in the Oreti River and shellfish in the New River Estuary (downstream).
Taharua (T2) No specific knowledge of recreation on the Taharua, but the receiving river (the Mohaka) is protected by a Water Conservation Order which includes specific mention of outstanding water sports values. Trout fishing and rafting are common.
Mangapapa (T2) No contact recreation known within catchment, but this occurs within downstream receiving environment. (Note; all natural water bodies in the Manawatu–Wanganui region are designated for ‘contact recreation’ in the operative and proposed regional plan.) People may eel in the catchment, but there is no information about this or other fishing.
Rai (T2) Both contact recreation (eg, swimming, kayaking) and fishing take place in the Rai and downstream in the Pelorus River.

Notes:

The descriptions in this table are based on the perceptions of regional council staff or interpretations from reports, not a formal survey. They may not represent whole-of-council or other community views, and there may be other/different recreational values that have not been captured.

T1 = Tier 1 catchment and T2 = Tier 2 catchment.

 

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