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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 (continued)

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

Environment Waikato
Gisborne District Council
Greater Wellington Regional Council
Hawke's Bay Regional Council

Environment Waikato

Consents (number)

Primary use	Cold water				Geothermal	Total
Primary use	Groundwater	Surface water	Storage	Subtotal	Geothermal	Total
Drinking	126	89	8	223	0	223
Heating	0	0	0	0	2	2
Industrial	88	92	12	192	29	221
Irrigation	149	196	9	354	0	354
Stock	12	8	0	20	0	20
Total	375	385	29	789	31	820

Weekly allocation (m³/s)

Primary use	Cold water				Geothermal	Total
Primary use	Groundwater	Surface water	Storage	Subtotal	Geothermal	Total
Drinking	0.52	5.57	0.64	6.73	0.00	6.73
Heating	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.02	0.02
Industrial	2.63	8.49	2.07	13.19	3.51	16.70
Irrigation	1.10	4.37	0.37	5.84	0.00	5.84
Stock	0.01	0.01	0.00	0.03	0.00	0.03
Total	4.27	18.44	3.08	25.79	3.52	29.31

Annual allocation (Mm³/y)

Primary use	Groundwater	Surface water	Storage	Total
Drinking	16.44	175.22	20.02	211.67
Heating	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Industrial	79.53	256.65	62.74	398.92
Irrigation	10.63	42.27	3.60	56.50
Stock	0.46	0.41	0.00	0.88
Total	107.07	474.55	86.35	667.97

Consented irrigated area (ha)

Primary use	Groundwater	Surface water	Storage	Total
Horticulture	53.89	17.02	19.15	90.06
Pasture	8.98	129.86	500.70	639.54
Unspecified	1603.82	6451.69	46.75	8102.27
Total	1666.70	6598.57	566.61	8831.88

Gisborne District Council

Consents (number)

Primary use	Cold water				Geothermal	Total
Primary use	Groundwater	Surface water	Storage	Subtotal	Geothermal	Total
Drinking	6	3	3	12	0	12
Industrial	5	0	0	5	1	6
Irrigation	85	59	0	144	0	144
Total	96	62	3	161	1	162

Weekly allocation (m³/s)

Primary use	Cold water				Geothermal	Total
Primary use	Groundwater	Surface water	Storage	Subtotal	Geothermal	Total
Drinking	0.14	0.31	8.34	8.78	0.00	8.78
Industrial	0.01	0.00	0.00	0.01	0.00	0.01
Irrigation	0.61	1.45	0.00	2.06	0.00	2.06
Total	0.76	1.76	8.34	10.85	0.00	10.85

Annual allocation (Mm³/y)

Primary use	Groundwater	Surface water	Storage	Total
Drinking	4.38	9.64	262.15	276.17
Industrial	0.31	0.00	0.00	0.31
Irrigation	5.88	14.03	0.00	19.91
Total	10.56	23.67	262.15	296.39

Consented irrigated area (ha)

Primary use	Groundwater	Surface water	Storage	Total
Arable	13.80	432.50		446.30
Horticulture	1255.20	1685.00		2940.20
Nursery	0.00	78.90		78.90
Pasture	74.44	823.00		897.44
Unspecified	0.34	1.93		2.27
Viticulture	1.00	0.00		1.00
Total	1344.78	3021.33		4366.12

Greater Wellington Regional Council

Consents (number)

Primary use	Cold water				Geothermal	Total
Primary use	Groundwater	Surface water	Storage	Subtotal	Geothermal	Total
Drinking	29	20	0	49		49
Industrial	38	17	4	59		59
Irrigation	398	125	41	564		564
Stock	4	1	0	5		5
Total	469	163	45	677		677

Weekly allocation (m³/s)

Primary use	Cold water				Geothermal	Total
Primary use	Groundwater	Surface water	Storage	Subtotal	Geothermal	Total
Drinking	3.38	4.24	0.00	7.62		7.62
Industrial	0.75	0.55	0.31	1.61		1.61
Irrigation	5.28	3.87	1.55	10.69		10.69
Stock	0.01	0.00	0.00	0.01		0.01
Total	9.41	8.66	1.86	19.92		19.92

Annual allocation (Mm³/y)

Primary use	Groundwater	Surface water	Storage	Total
Drinking	97.37	515.58	0.00	612.95
Industrial	11.94	16.49	1.60	30.02
Irrigation	82.67	72.98	31.32	186.97
Stock	0.10	0.02	0.00	0.12
Total	192.09	605.06	32.92	830.07

Consented irrigated area (ha)

Primary use	Groundwater	Surface water	Storage	Total
Arable	32.50	45.72	0.00	78.22
Horticulture	441.47	14.00	0.00	455.47
Pasture	4,635.69	2,685.50	2.03	7,323.22
Unspecified	5,501.71	7,128.51	0.00	12,776.22
Viticulture	473.63	93.00	0.00	566.63
Total	11,085.00	9,966.72	2.03	21,199.75

Hawke's Bay Regional Council

Consents (number)

Primary use	Cold water				Geothermal	Total
Primary use	Groundwater	Surface water	Storage	Subtotal	Geothermal	Total
Drinking	56	20		76		76
Industrial	85	15		100		100
Irrigation	2100	235		2335		2335
Stock	1	5		6		6
Total	2242	275		2517		2517

Weekly allocation (m³/s)

Primary use	Cold water				Geothermal	Total
Primary use	Groundwater	Surface water	Storage	Subtotal	Geothermal	Total
Drinking	1.84	0.87		2.72		2.72
Industrial	1.61	1.08		2.69		2.69
Irrigation	11.30	2.85		14.15		14.15
Stock	0.00	0.69		0.69		0.69
Total	14.75	5.49		20.24		20.24

Annual allocation (Mm³/y)

Primary use	Groundwater	Surface water	Storage	Total
Drinking	58.01	27.41		85.42
Industrial	48.62	32.65		81.28
Irrigation	203.61	50.98		254.59
Stock	0.03	21.77		21.80
Total	310.27	132.82		443.09

Consented irrigated area (ha)

Primary use	Groundwater	Surface water	Storage	Total
Arable	12,886.90	4,994.15		17,881.05
Forestry	0.00	20.00		20.00
Horticulture	7,429.24	573.32		8,002.56
Pasture	5,588.33	2,878.24		8,466.57
Recreational	102.05	25.00		127.05
Viticulture	4,801.97	678.52		5,480.49
Total	30,808.49	9,169.22		39,977.71

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