Waitaki Vineyard Estates Ltd

Applications CRC081291 and CRC082321.

Decision

Commissioner Freeman granted the application to take and use groundwater for irrigation and frost protection of a vineyard and lifestyle plantings and to provide community domestic water supply for an 11-lot subdivision and winery.

Read the decision of the hearing commissioner (pdf 387 kB) - 19 January 2011

Applications

CRC081291

- to take and use water from bore I40/0157 (200 millimetres diameter and 107 metres deep, located at or about map reference NZMS 260 I40:1558-9430), and bore I40/0641 (150 millimetres diameter and 84 metres deep, located at or about map reference NZMS 260 I40:1653-9443) at a rate of 0.6 litres per second and a volume not exceeding 18,652 cubic metres between 1 July and the following 30 June, for the community water supply for 12 lots, at Special School Road, Otekaieke.

CRC082321

- to take and use water from bore I40/0157 (200 millimetres diameter and 107 metres deep, located at or about map reference NZMS 260 I40:1558-9430), and bore I40/0641 (150 millimetres diameter and 84 metres deep, located at or about map reference NZMS 260 I40:1653-9443) at a rate of 5.25 litres per second and a volume not exceeding 165,665 cubic metres between 1 July and the following 30 June, for the irrigation of 32.6 hectares of vineyard, pasture and crops and frost protection purposes, at Special School Road, Otekaieke.

These applications are for a new activity and the applicant has requested a duration of 35 years.

Hearing details

Contact details

Please contact Andre Almond on 03 364 9883 if you have any queries related to the hearing.

Hearing dates:

29 November 2010

Venue:

Oamaru Opera House

Hearing times:

Daily commencement time: 9.30 am
Daily adjournment time: 5.00 pm

Reports and evidence