Councils seek views on water
Tikokino and Ongaonga residents will be receiving survey forms in their letterboxes soon as the Hawke’s Bay Regional and Central Hawke’s Bay District Councils seek to better understand the community’s current water supply situation water quantity issues.
Some in the community have raised concerns about running out of domestic water in the dry summer months.
Central Hawke’s Bay mayor, Alex Walker, says the councils want to get a fuller picture of the concerns to help inform the assistance provided by them.
Residents have until November 30 to complete the survey and should contact Central Hawke’s Bay District Council via email at info@chbdc.govt.nz if they have any questions.
A community water forum is being organised before Christmas to discuss water management challenges in Central Hawke’s Bay.
The specially-formed Tukituki Taskforce Group continues to meet
The regional and district councils want to get a fuller picture of the concerns to help inform the assistance provided by them.
to develop solutions to manage water quantity in the short, medium and long term in Central Hawke’s Bay.
The regional council also has a programme of science under way, which includes reviewing the groundwater monitoring network to redevelop the Ruataniwha Groundwater Model, investigating the possibility of managed aquifer recharge, and plans for an electromagnetic aerial survey of the aquifer geology, which will give the regional council the ability to manage the water takes and their impacts with far greater precision and certainty.
The regional council is also still awaiting the additional science requested from those applying for a piece of the extra 15 million cubic metres of water released by the board of inquiry, known as Tranche 2 water. It is likely the regional council will request applications go to a publiclynotified consent hearing.