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Conservation AGM report 2000
Conservation AGM Report 1999/2000
River issues for 1999 / 2000
·
The Rangitata River
- Irrigation Schemes
·
Waipori Hydro Scheme Re Consenting, Trustpower
·
The Clarence River and Trans Rail.
The Rangitata River.
The
OCKC "Generic River Protection Package" was used for
the first time in February.
I used it to help me lodge a submission objecting to an
irrigation scheme to be situated at the bottom of the gorge.
Unfortunately a second irrigation scheme proposed for the
river near Arundel was not posted in our Otago papers and
therefore not formally objected to.
Nevertheless, OCKC has lodged a telephone appeal to the
Canterbury Regional Council (CRC) stating our status as an
interested party.
OCKC oppose irrigation schemes for the following reasons
1
We support free
flowing rivers
2
The documented
failures of irrigation dams and canals in NZ.
Waipori
Hydro Scheme Re Consenting, Trustpower.
Following
regular consultation meetings OCKC has formally requested 3
summer weekend water releases for the duration of the consent.
The
Clarence River and Trans Rail.
Extraction
of riverbed will be delayed while Trans Rail re position
themselves to sell the Ferry part of their Business
The Clutha River.
Contact
Energy is part way though the re consenting process for its
hydro generating facilities: The Clyde and Roxburgh power
stations on the Clutha river, (affecting also the Kawarau river)
and the Lake Hawea control structure.
Contact Energy will lodge the application with the Otago
Regional Council, Dunedin, in March 2001.
To gain re-consent CONTACT must comply with the
requirements of the Resource Management Act 1991 (RMA).
The timetable is
·
March 2001
CONTACT Energy will lodge the final application for re
consenting their rights to the waters of these three major river
systems.
·
Between April -
June 2001 OCKC must lodge a submission in writing to the Otago
Regional Council.
OCKC
has met with CONTACT Energy and confirmed the clubs status as
both a recognised body and interested party.
Suggested compensation to canoeists from CONTACT Energy
for the loss of these free flowing rivers can be both short and
long term and be at 3 levels.
1.
To meet Local needs on the Hawea.
2.
To meet Regional needs such as planned regular weekend
summer releases on the Hawea and possibly a slalom course.
3.
To meet National needs by sponsorship of the protection
of other outstanding rivers.
Additionally
OCKC has met with Otago Conservation, Fish and Game Otago and
Ngai Tahu to discuss the effect of the re-consenting process.
Some
Useful Documents.
64
New Zealand Rivers A Scenic Evaluation. NZCA 1979
Graham
Egarr. Jan Egarr.
John Mackay
New
Zealand Recreational River Survey.
Part 111.
Summaries
of south Island Rivers.
Water and Soil Miscallaneous Pub No 15
Wellington M.W.D.
Water
Resource Inventory for the Clutha, Kawarau and Hawea Rivers - A
Review. Otago
Catchment board and Regional Water Board.
March 1985. P.
O. Box 858 Dunedin.
Otago
Southland Canoeists Guide.
GD and JH Egarr NZCA
(Inc) 1978.
A
History of the Sport of Canoing in NZ. 1840 - 1972 M.
E. Fyfe Auckland 1972.
Waitaki
/ Canterbury Regional Council.
Agreements reached between working parties Jens Rekker
report Appendix ?
Faces
of the River NZ
Living Water. Young
and foster. 1986.
TVNZ Publishing.
