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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.

Otago Regional Council
Tasman District Council
Taranaki Regional Council
West Coast Regional Council

Otago Regional Council

Consents (number)

Primary use	Cold water				Geothermal	Total
Primary use	Groundwater	Surface water	Storage	Subtotal	Geothermal	Total
Drinking	144	172	13	329		329
Industrial	50	127	11	188		188
Irrigation	310	1082	31	1423		1423
Stock	3	25	0	28		28
Total	507	1406	55	1968		1968

Weekly allocation (m³/s)

Primary use	Cold water				Geothermal	Total
Primary use	Groundwater	Surface water	Storage	Subtotal	Geothermal	Total
Drinking	1.61	9.84	1.03	12.48		12.48
Industrial	2.05	13.02	1.01	16.08		16.08
Irrigation	3.47	86.33	5.72	95.52		95.52
Stock	0.00	1.03	0.00	1.03		1.03
Total	7.13	110.22	7.76	125.11		125.11

Annual allocation (Mm³/y)

Primary use	Groundwater	Surface water	Storage	Total
Drinking	45.08	308.09	30.72	383.88
Industrial	62.05	389.02	30.43	481.51
Irrigation	34.77	762.68	54.63	852.08
Stock	0.09	32.31	0.00	32.40
Total	141.99	1492.10	115.77	1749.86

Consented irrigated area (ha)

Primary use	Groundwater	Surface water	Storage	Total
Arable	74.13	619.50	0.00	693.63
Horticulture	2,621.65	14,460.29	4,956.29	22,038.22
Pasture	3,545.47	32,976.01	1,533.27	38,054.75
Unspecified	872.09	77,313.20	481.75	78,667.04
Viticulture	799.73	712.68	308.83	1,821.24
Total	7,913.07	126,081.68	7,280.14	141,274.89

Tasman District Council

Consents (number)

Primary use	Cold water				Geothermal	Total
Primary use	Groundwater	Surface water	Storage	Subtotal	Geothermal	Total
Drinking	42	21	0	63		63
Industrial	26	16	10	52		52
Irrigation	787	243	172	1202		1202
Stock	1	1	0	2		2
Total	856	281	182	1319		1319

Weekly allocation (m³/s)

Primary use	Cold water				Geothermal	Total
Primary use	Groundwater	Surface water	Storage	Subtotal	Geothermal	Total
Drinking	0.43	0.03	0.00	0.46		0.46
Industrial	0.16	0.09	0.96	1.20		1.20
Irrigation	3.91	1.74	4.48	10.13		10.13
Stock	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00		0.00
Total	4.49	1.86	5.44	11.79		11.79

Annual allocation (Mm³/y)

Primary use	Groundwater	Surface water	Storage	Total
Drinking	13.49	0.98	0.00	14.48
Industrial	4.74	2.70	28.98	36.42
Irrigation	37.79	16.84	43.36	97.99
Stock	0.00	0.03	0.00	0.03
Total	56.03	20.55	72.34	148.91

Consented irrigated area (ha)

Primary use	Groundwater	Surface water	Storage	Total
Unspecified	7705.01	3697.13	6868.49	18270.62
Total	7705.01	3697.13	6868.49	18270.62

Taranaki Regional Council

Consents (number)

Primary use	Cold water				Geothermal	Total
Primary use	Groundwater	Surface water	Storage	Subtotal	Geothermal	Total
Drinking	9	14	1	24	0	24
Industrial	18	46	7	71	1	72
Irrigation	12	60	13	85	0	85
Stock	5	1	0	6	0	6
Total	44	121	21	186	1	187

Weekly allocation (m³/s)

Primary use	Cold water				Geothermal	Total
Primary use	Groundwater	Surface water	Storage	Subtotal	Geothermal	Total
Drinking	0.07	0.54	0.70	1.31	0.00	1.31
Industrial	0.19	1.49	0.04	1.72	0.00	1.72
Irrigation	0.05	1.11	0.13	1.28	0.00	1.28
Stock	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Total	0.31	3.13	0.87	4.31	0.00	4.32

Annual allocation (Mm³/y)

Primary use	Groundwater	Surface water	Storage	Total
Drinking	2.29	16.87	22.01	41.17
Industrial	5.63	45.03	1.22	51.87
Irrigation	0.50	10.70	1.23	12.43
Stock	0.07	0.03	0.00	0.10
Total	8.49	72.62	24.46	105.57

Consented irrigated area (ha)

Primary use	Groundwater	Surface water	Storage	Total
Horticulture	9.37	42.49	12.06	63.92
Pasture	95.49	2,186.67	243.97	2,526.13
Total	104.86	2,229.16	256.03	2,590.05

West Coast Regional Council

Consents (number)

Primary use	Cold water				Geothermal	Total
Primary use	Groundwater	Surface water	Storage	Subtotal	Geothermal	Total
Drinking	22	50	1	73	0	73
Heating	0	0	0	0	2	2
Industrial	74	246	13	333	1	334
Irrigation	6	18	1	25	0	25
Stock	0	2	1	3	0	3
Total	102	316	16	434	3	437

Weekly allocation (m³/s)

Primary use	Cold water				Geothermal	Total
Primary use	Groundwater	Surface water	Storage	Subtotal	Geothermal	Total
Drinking	0.22	0.88	0.00	1.10	0.00	1.10
Heating	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.01	0.01
Industrial	0.78	6.17	0.33	7.28	0.01	7.29
Irrigation	0.15	1.38	0.00	1.54	0.00	1.54
Stock	0.00	0.10	0.00	0.10	0.00	0.10
Total	1.15	8.53	0.33	10.02	0.01	10.03

Annual allocation (Mm³/y)

Primary use	Groundwater	Surface water	Storage	Total
Drinking	6.80	27.79	0.00	34.59
Heating	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Industrial	23.67	186.58	10.05	220.30
Irrigation	1.49	13.38	0.00	14.87
Stock	0.00	3.03	0.08	3.11
Total	31.96	230.77	10.13	272.87

Consented irrigated area (ha)

Primary use	Groundwater	Surface water	Storage	Total
Pasture	310.67	700.02	0.00	1010.69
Total	310.67	700.02	0.00	1010.69

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