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Acknowledgements

Executive Summary

3 Allocations and Areas

4 Comparisons and Trends

5 Surface-water Allocation

Appendix A: Database Format

Appendix B: Assumptions and Parameters

Appendix C: Consent Database Summaries

Appendix D: Regional Summaries

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Appendix D: Regional Summaries

The series of tables listed in this appendix summarise the consent database by regional authority.

Auckland Regional Council
Environment Bay of Plenty
Environment Canterbury
Environment Southland

Auckland Regional Council

Consents (number)

Primary use	Cold water				Geothermal	Total
Primary use	Groundwater	Surface water	Storage	Subtotal	Geothermal	Total
Drinking	138	16	12	166	0	166
Heating	0	0	0	0	68	68
Industrial	126	15	18	159	0	159
Irrigation	776	149	103	1028	0	1028
Stock	57	7	3	67	1	68
Total	1097	187	136	1420	69	1489

Weekly allocation (m³/s)

Primary use	Cold water				Geothermal	Total
Primary use	Groundwater	Surface water	Storage	Subtotal	Geothermal	Total
Drinking	0.80	0.12	3.78	4.70	0.00	4.70
Heating	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.03	0.03
Industrial	0.72	0.10	2.62	3.44	0.00	3.44
Irrigation	1.34	0.39	0.44	2.17	0.00	2.17
Stock	0.03	0.00	0.01	0.04	0.00	0.04
Total	2.89	0.61	6.84	10.34	0.03	10.37

Annual allocation (Mm³/y)

Primary use	Groundwater	Surface water	Storage	Total
Drinking	20.95	2.03	113.40	80.7
Heating	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Industrial	17.15	0.68	78.02	58.7
Irrigation	8.40	3.13	3.56	9.3
Stock	0.64	0.08	0.16	0.6
Total	47.13	5.92	195.15	152.3

Consented irrigated area (ha)

Primary use	Groundwater	Surface water	Storage	Total
Arable	994.59	249.85	244.06	1.28
Horticulture	868.21	130.37	46.89	21.91
Pasture	498.56	272.91	424.58	11.46
Unspecified	1.32	0.98	0.00	0.00
Total	2362.67	654.12	715.54	3732.33

Environment Bay of Plenty

Consents (number)

Primary use	Cold water				Geothermal	Total
Primary use	Groundwater	Surface water	Storage	Subtotal	Geothermal	Total
Drinking	35	23	1	59	0	59
Heating	0	0	0	0	90	90
Industrial	32	27	5	64	101	165
Irrigation	636	302	15	953	3	956
Stock	7	38	6	51	2	53
Total	710	390	27	1127	196	1323

Weekly allocation (m³/s)

Primary use	Cold water				Geothermal	Total
Primary use	Groundwater	Surface water	Storage	Subtotal	Geothermal	Total
Drinking	1.23	2.95	0.00	4.18	0.00	4.18
Heating	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.10	0.10
Industrial	0.16	3.90	0.75	4.81	0.33	5.14
Irrigation	4.20	6.03	0.21	10.43	0.01	10.44
Stock	0.00	1.94	0.87	2.81	0.00	2.81
Total	5.59	14.81	1.83	22.24	0.44	22.68

Annual allocation (Mm³/y)

Primary use	Groundwater	Surface water	Storage	Total
Drinking	38.57	92.70	0.14	131.42
Heating	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Industrial	4.86	118.04	22.66	145.57
Irrigation	40.64	58.22	1.99	100.85
Stock	0.00	60.87	0.00	60.87
Total	84.07	329.84	24.79	438.70

Consented irrigated area (ha)

Primary use	Groundwater	Surface water	Storage	Total
Arable	3.73	1.52	0.00	0.00
Horticulture	4,659.74	1,901.85	188.66	3.61
Pasture	2,519.78	3,345.96	176.94	126.05
Unspecified	786.93	6,648.53	29.28	15.17
Viticulture	25.14	21.47	0.00	0.00
Total	7,995.32	11,919.32	394.88	20,309.53

Environment Canterbury

Consents (number)

Primary use	Cold water				Geothermal	Total
Primary use	Groundwater	Surface water	Storage	Subtotal	Geothermal	Total
Drinking	298	83	5	386	0	386
Industrial	186	34	4	224	1	225
Irrigation	4165	947	56	5168	0	5168
Stock	19	74	1	94	0	94
Total	4668	1138	66	5872	1	5873

Weekly allocation (m³/s)

Primary use	Cold water				Geothermal	Total
Primary use	Groundwater	Surface water	Storage	Subtotal	Geothermal	Total
Drinking	10.6	5.2	0.0	15.8	0.00	15.8
Industrial	4.2	3.6	0.1	7.8	0.05	7.9
Irrigation	143.1	186.9	4.7	334.7	0.00	334.7
Stock	0.1	14.2	0.0	14.4	0.00	14.4
Total	158.1	209.9	4.8	372.8	0.05	372.8

Annual allocation (Mm³/y)

Primary use	Groundwater	Surface water	Storage	Total
Drinking	138.20	55.11	0.91	194.23
Industrial	124.13	107.11	2.29	233.54
Irrigation	1246.26	1843.60	45.28	3135.15
Stock	3.99	447.66	1.26	452.90
Total	1512.58	2453.49	49.74	4015.82

Consented irrigated area (ha)

Primary use	Groundwater	Surface water	Storage	Total
Arable	187,836.43	190,743.10	3,001.00	381,580.53
Horticulture	5,228.30	699.90	214.23	6,142.43
Pasture	146,687.05	70,439.63	2,106.00	219,232.68
Unspecified	30.00	34,412.00	1,920.00	36,362.00
Viticulture	3,024.70	654.00	10.00	3,688.70
Total	342,806.48	296,948.63	7,251.23	647,006.34

Environment Southland

Consents (number)

Primary use	Cold water				Geothermal	Total
Primary use	Groundwater	Surface water	Storage	Subtotal	Geothermal	Total
Drinking	15	42	0	57		57
Industrial	465	66	4	535		535
Irrigation	65	16	1	82		82
Stock	3	2	0	5		5
Total	548	126	5	679		679

Weekly allocation (m³/s)

Primary use	Cold water				Geothermal	Total
Primary use	Groundwater	Surface water	Storage	Subtotal	Geothermal	Total
Drinking	0.42	0.88	0.00	1.30		1.30
Industrial	1.30	1.65	0.14	3.09		3.09
Irrigation	2.93	0.46	0.01	3.41		3.41
Stock	0.00	0.01	0.00	0.01		0.01
Total	4.65	3.00	0.15	7.80		7.80

Annual allocation (Mm³/y)

Primary use	Groundwater	Surface water	Storage	Total
Drinking	13.10	27.64	0.00	40.74
Industrial	38.42	49.96	4.30	92.67
Irrigation	28.28	4.50	0.10	32.87
Stock	0.02	0.19	0.00	0.22
Total	79.81	82.29	4.39	166.50

Consented irrigated area (ha)

Primary use	Groundwater	Surface water	Storage	Total
Horticulture	449.11	89.43	0.00	538.53
Pasture	5464.50	844.31	20.16	6328.97
Unspecified	152.74	32.67	0.00	185.41
Total	6066.35	966.40	20.16	7052.91

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