Amuri Irrigation Company Limited

Proposed activities

As part of this suite, the applicant has sought the following resource consents:

• CRC240750 - A water permit to dam up to 10 million cubic metres of water
• CRC240751 - A water permit to take and use groundwater for dewatering purposes
• CRC240752 - A water permit to use water for dust control and construction purposes
• CRC240753 - A water permit to take and use groundwater for dewatering during excavation
• CRC240754 - A land use consent to excavate and disturb land associated with the installation and placement of the water storage facility
• CRC240755 - A land use consent to excavate land over an aquifer
• CRC240756 - A discharge permit to discharge construction phase stormwater and dewatered water to land where it may enter groundwater or surface water
• CRC240757 - A discharge permit to discharge contaminants to air from the burning of vegetation remnants
• CRC240758 - A discharge permit to discharge contaminants to air from the outdoor storage of bulk solid materials
• CRC240759 - A water permit to divert or non-consumptively take, use and discharge 1.5 cubic metres per second of water from the Hurunui River to operate the fish screen
• CRC240760 - A land use consent to excavate material
• CRC240761 - A land use consent to undertake excavation, disturbance and clearance of wetland species within the riparian margin of the Hurunui River
• CRC240762 - A land use consent to excavate and disturb land associated with replacement and modification of the existing fish screen
• CRC240763 - A land use consent to undertake earthworks and vegetation clearance outside the bed of a river but within 5 metres of the bed of a river
• CRC240764 - A land use consent to place and maintain an instream structure at the bypass outlet

A consent duration of 35 years has been sought for all operational consents, and a duration of 10 years has been sought for all construction-related consents.

Water from the facility will be made available to existing irrigators to improve their reliability. The use of water from the water storage facility will occur in accordance with existing resource consents. The suite of resource consents applied for here are only sought for the construction, operation and use of the water storage facility and to replace the existing fish screen (listed below).