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Kaituna-Pongakawa-Waitahanui WMA

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Nau mai Haere mai

Tiaki pumautia te wai e hoki mai ai ng ā rawa ki a t ātou katoa

Treat the water wisely and it will return to us

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Housekeeping

• Fire protocol

• Toilets

• Meals

• Recording/Sharing notes

• Make yourself at home

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Agenda

Introduction

Values Framework

Values mappin g

Towards measures

Freshwater Management Units

Summing up

What’s next

lunch

am tea

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This kaupapa is to help….

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…Council implement the National Policy Statement for Freshwater Management:

• confirm values, express preferred objectives

• provide input to and feedback on limits and methods for freshwater quality and quantity within this WMA

• provide input to and feedback on solutions for managing activities to meet those limits

• advise Council in their decision-making for Plan change

Work Programme

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Phase 2

Meet and Greet

sessions

Scene setting

Group values

Build knowledge

Values Framework

Attributes

FMU’s

Phase 3

FMU’s

Values - aligned

Attributes/Indicators

Objectives and Limits

Scenario

Impact analysis

Evaluation: Scenario

feedback

Develop policy and

regulatory framework

Consult on framework

Phase 4

Council notifies

Proposed Plan Change

Hearings and

decisions

Environment Court

Appeals

Environment Court

Hearing and Decision

We are

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Staff’s current work1. Values Framework

2. Freshwater management units

3. Current state gap filling

4. Begun to work on:a. programme detail

b. attributes

c. key issue identification modelling requirements

d. groundwater models

e. overarching policy review

f. initiating methodology for environmental flows and levels

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Updates needs sorting

National

1. Next steps for freshwater Consultation Document - Submissions just closed

2. Government’s allocation policy package yet to come

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Desired outcomes for todayThat the group:

• Feeds back on the regional values framework

• Advises on process for significant cultural sites

• Maps location/s of values

• Inputs on draft measures for values

• Considers draft Freshwater Management Units (FMUs)

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Regional Values Framework

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VALUES ATTRIBUTES FRESHWATER

OBJECTIVES LIMITS METHODS

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Checking in…

We will outline the current Regional Values Framework:

• national values and additional from you

• values not identified previously

• what is not included in the value set

then ask your advice about the:• grouping of the values

• wording of the titles and descriptions

• process for recording significant cultural sites 11

Council’s thinking

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Principles for values setting Council determined that in setting the values frameworks we need to:

• be nationally consistent

• provide for some regional consistency

• be flexible enough to accommodate local differences

• demonstrate how values drawn from statutory documents are represented

• check values from statutory documents with the authors

• generally, aggregate common regional values

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Regional Values Framework

Ecological Values Te Hauora o te Wai / The Health and Mauri of the Water

Social Values

Te Hauora o te Tangata / The Health and Mauri of the People

Te Hauora o te Taiao / The Health and Mauri of the Environment

Mahinga kai / Food gathering, places of food

Wai Māori / Municipal and domestic water supply

He ara haere / Navigation

Economic use and values

Mahi mara / Cultivation

Au putea /Economic or commercial development

Hydroelectric power generation

Floodwater and urban stormwater conveyance

Cultural values

Wai Tapu / sacred waters

TBA / Sites of cultural significance

Kaitiakitanga / Historical relationships

Rawa tuturu / Customary resources

Integrated Management

Influence on other freshwater bodies

Moana / Influence on sensitive coastal waters and receiving environments

Influences on geothermal heat15

Applying values in Kaituna-Pongakawa-Waitahanui WMA

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Applicable value Description

Values applying to FMU 1 Detail about specific aspects of a value

Example:

Sites of Cultural SignificanceDescription about the site and location, sensitivity to water quality and quantity

Applying values in the Kaituna-Pongakawa-Waitahanui WMA

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Feedback

• Discuss with neighbour - values framework thoughts:• grouping of values, titles, scope

• On feedback sheet note:• agree/disagree

• any comments?

• Check in - are people in general agreement?

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He kapu tiMorning tea

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Values mapping

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Values mapping

Values to be mapped:1. Ecological – species habitat (see schedule and update)

2. Recreation/Primary contact (frequent immersion -swimming – see list of monitored swimming spots)

3. Natural character and form & Amenity values

4. Mahinga kai (other than fish)

5. Fishing (see schedule of habitat for trout)

6. Transport and Tauranga Waka

7. Rawa tuturu/Customary resources

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Values mapping exercise• Work your way around the maps (7), in any

order you choose

• Check out:– the question

– the values already gathered

• Mark any sites of the values that you are aware of using the stickers at each map

• Advise of time to circulate the room

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Check in

• Any gaps?

• Any patterns or trends?

• Any further information you would have liked?

• Were any particularly hard or inappropriate?

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Measuring Values

Attributes: measurable characteristics of fresh water, including physical, chemical and biological properties, which support particular values.

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‘Measuring’ values• National attributes (NPS)

• Additional attributes, e.g., MCI, sediment …

• Descriptions for things that are difficult to measure

• How would you know a value is provided for?

• What water quality and quantity is needed?

• Feedback on suggestion sheet25

Check inValues

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NH4-N toxicity (r) Y Y Y

NO3-N toxicity (r) Y Y Y

Total N (l) Y

Total P (l)

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Lunch

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Freshwater Management Units (FMU’s)

FMU: a water body, multiple water bodies or any part of a water body determined by Council as the appropriate scale for setting objectives and limitsand for freshwater accounting and management purposes”.

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Principles for identifying FMU’s

• Include the water body and its catchment

• Reflect significant spatial differences that affect how we should manage freshwater– biophysical (e.g.,. geology, slope) affects “natural water quality

and quantity, and “capacity” for use

– values/uses and objectives

– land use (in some cases)

– “permanent” modifications also being considered

• Regional consistency, with some local flexibility– justified, transparent method

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Principles continued

• Manageable spatial scale and number of FMU’s – aggregate where possible

– specificity vs planning/implementation complexity

– clarity and certainty of boundaries

• Different FMU frameworks for surface water, groundwater, wetlands and lakes

• Flexibility during plan development

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Biophysical layer

Non-Volcanic (all slopes)Volcanic Hill (Slope > 10 degrees)Volcanic Low (Slope < 10 degrees)

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Biophysical layer continued

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Other layers• Certain land uses

• e.g., “natural state” catchments, urban areas, other?

• Receiving environments • e.g., estuaries, wetlands

• Permanent modification• e.g., dams, heavily modified channels/drainage?

• Social and cultural • e.g., rohe, community

• Locally specific values • see values maps

• Connections with groundwater

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Group exercise

1. Pim to discuss staff first draft

2. Group to use A3 map and

3. Move around the map layers (any order)

4. Draw any suggested changes on your own map

5. Note down why – feedback sheet

6. Share back main points

Keep in mind the purpose: • What key factors are likely to mean that we’ll have quite

different freshwater quality (and quantity) objectives in one part of the WMA compared to another?

• Where is the line between?

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Work in progress

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Summary

• Programme of work

• Values Framework

• Values maps

• Attributes

• FMUs

• Actions36

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• In closing…

• Any feedback to us on this session?

• Project review coming up

• Next meeting…..

• Talk to others ……

• The key highlight/achievements from this session

• Ask - what would they have added to the session?

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