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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.

Horizons Regional Council
Marlborough District Council
Nelson City Council
Northland Regional Council

Horizons Regional Council

Consents (number)

Primary use	Cold water				Geothermal	Total
Primary use	Groundwater	Surface water	Storage	Subtotal	Geothermal	Total
Drinking	70	49	1	120		120
Industrial	56	30	0	86		86
Irrigation	232	113	1	346		346
Total	358	192	2	552		552

Weekly allocation (m³/s)

Primary use	Cold water				Geothermal	Total
Primary use	Groundwater	Surface water	Storage	Subtotal	Geothermal	Total
Drinking	1.69	1.52	0.00	3.21		3.21
Industrial	0.79	0.51	0.00	1.30		1.30
Irrigation	3.49	2.54	0.00	6.03		6.03
Total	5.96	4.57	0.00	10.54		10.54

Annual allocation (Mm³/y)

Primary use	Groundwater	Surface water	Storage	Total
Drinking	53.02	47.90	0.02	100.94
Industrial	23.88	15.46	0.00	39.34
Irrigation	33.12	24.54	0.04	57.71
Total	110.03	87.90	0.06	197.99

Consented irrigated area (ha)

Primary use	Groundwater	Surface water	Storage	Total
Arable	4,298.15	4,577.12	0.00	8,875.27
Horticulture	656.76	161.19	8.63	826.58
Pasture	2,072.34	374.90	0.00	2,447.24
Total	7,027.26	5,113.20	8.63	12,149.09

Marlborough District Council

Consents (number)

Primary use	Cold water				Geothermal	Total
Primary use	Groundwater	Surface water	Storage	Subtotal	Geothermal	Total
Drinking	22	11	0	33		33
Industrial	6	3	0	9		9
Irrigation	770	371	2	1143		1143
Stock	6	0	0	6		6
Total	804	385	2	1191		1191

Weekly allocation (m³/s)

Primary use	Cold water				Geothermal	Total
Primary use	Groundwater	Surface water	Storage	Subtotal	Geothermal	Total
Drinking	0.71	0.05	0.00	0.76		0.76
Industrial	0.05	0.01	0.00	0.06		0.06
Irrigation	5.83	11.06	0.08	16.96		16.96
Stock	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00		0.00
Total	6.59	11.12	0.08	17.78		17.78

Annual allocation (Mm³/y)

Primary use	Groundwater	Surface water	Storage	Total
Drinking	22.34	1.48	0.00	23.82
Industrial	1.62	0.36	0.00	1.98
Irrigation	55.58	104.06	0.73	160.37
Stock	0.05	0.00	0.00	0.05
Total	79.58	105.90	0.73	186.21

Consented irrigated area (ha)

Primary use	Groundwater	Surface water	Storage	Total
Horticulture	0.30	0.00	0.00	0.30
Unspecified	15,704.02	20,690.79	194.00	36,588.81
Viticulture	0.50	0.00	0.00	0.50
Total	15,704.82	20,690.79	194.00	36,589.61

Nelson City Council

Consents (number)

Primary use	Cold water				Geothermal	Total
Primary use	Groundwater	Surface water	Storage	Subtotal	Geothermal	Total
Drinking	1	8	0	9		9
Industrial	2	1	0	3		3
Irrigation	5	12	3	20		20
Stock	0	1	0	1		1
Total	8	22	3	33		33

Weekly allocation (m³/s)

Primary use	Cold water				Geothermal	Total
Primary use	Groundwater	Surface water	Storage	Subtotal	Geothermal	Total
Drinking	0.00	0.91	0.00	0.91		0.91
Industrial	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00		0.00
Irrigation	0.00	0.02	0.03	0.04		0.04
Stock	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00		0.00
Total	0.00	0.93	0.03	0.96		0.96

Annual allocation (Mm³/y)

Primary use	Groundwater	Surface water	Storage	Total
Drinking	0.01	28.74	0.00	28.75
Industrial	0.02	0.01	0.00	0.02
Irrigation	0.02	0.15	0.25	0.41
Stock	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Total	0.05	28.89	0.25	29.19

Consented irrigated area (ha)

Primary use	Groundwater	Surface water	Storage	Total
Horticulture	0.00	0.00	20.53	20.53
Pasture	1.80	0.00	0.00	1.80
Unspecified	3.15	30.33	30.83	64.31
Total	4.95	30.33	51.37	86.65

Northland Regional Council

Consents (number)

Primary use	Cold water				Geothermal	Total
Primary use	Groundwater	Surface water	Storage	Subtotal	Geothermal	Total
Drinking	80	59	13	152		152
Industrial	19	19	3	41		41
Irrigation	140	212	48	400		400
Stock	6	5	2	13		13
Total	245	295	66	606		606

Weekly allocation (m³/s)

Primary use	Cold water				Geothermal	Total
Primary use	Groundwater	Surface water	Storage	Subtotal	Geothermal	Total
Drinking	0.08	0.86	0.13	1.06		1.06
Industrial	0.22	0.05	0.04	0.31		0.31
Irrigation	0.20	2.00	1.26	3.46		3.46
Stock	0.25	0.00	0.01	0.26		0.26
Total	0.75	2.91	1.45	5.10		5.10

Annual allocation (Mm³/y)

Primary use	Groundwater	Surface water	Storage	Total
Drinking	2.46	26.99	3.95	33.40
Industrial	6.76	1.39	1.34	9.49
Irrigation	3.59	36.27	22.94	62.79
Stock	7.83	0.10	0.39	8.32
Total	20.63	64.75	28.61	114.00

Consented irrigated area (ha)

Primary use	Groundwater	Surface water	Storage	Total
Arable	0.00	397.897546	5.00	402.90
Horticulture	461.54	1532.25097	498.50	2,492.29
Pasture	20.00	3074.02876	2,215.80	5,309.83
Total	481.54	5004.17727	2,719.30	8,205.01

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