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The Hawke’s Bay Regional Council (HBRC) is responsible for maintaining flood protection infrastructure throughout the major braided river systems in the Heretaunga Plains. These include the Tukituki, Waipawa, Ngaruroro, Esk and Tutaekuri. Gravel extraction and beach raking from dry river bars are tools HBRC uses to maintain flood-flow capacity and reduce erosion of flood control infrastructure.
Author(s): Robin Holmes
Publication Date: 1 January 2017
Publication Number: 4915
5358 RM 19-215 Land Cover, Crop Type and Land Use Mapping in Hawke's Bay 2013-2015
Author(s): David Pairman, Stella E Belliss, Stephen McNeill
Publication Date: 1 December 2016
Publication Number: 5358
This Riverbed Gravel Review Summary provides a more succinct overview of the findings of the 12 issues
plus a riverbed gravel management plan identified in the 2010 scoping study by Tonkin & Taylor to
review the way in which HBRC currently manages riverbed and coastal gravel resources within Hawke’s
Bay. The issues identified in the scoping study as requiring more research were examined over a 7-year
period with completion due at the end of the 2016/17 financial year. The work programme was
approved by Council in 2010 with funding provided by an increase in extraction management charges
(agreed by commercial extractors).
This summary also provides some updated material and comments since completion of the earlier
sections of work. This body of work contains the most up to date understanding of the issues around
riverbed gravel extraction, including sustainable supply, market demand, ecological effects of the
activity, flood management implications, legal, planning and financial implications.
It is this significant body of work and reports that provides the background for and informs the Riverbed
Gravel Management Strategy (RGMS). It is proposed that the recommendations of Sections 11 and 12
(EMS Report) be largely adopted and followed to complete the drafting of the RGMS.
Author(s): Gary Clode
Publication Date: 1 December 2016
Publication Number: 4911
Hawkes Bay Land and Water Strategy
Author(s): Gavin Ide
Publication Date: 29 November 2016
Publication Number: 4287
A thinkpiece paper prepared by A Beveridge and G CArloyn (Catalyst Group) as part of the Community Environment Fund Project by HBRC, Auckland Council and MFE developing criteria and methodology for assessing outstanding freshwater bodies. Thinkpiece outlines several challenges with current NPSFM policy framework, then offers three possible solutions.
Author(s): Alistair Beveridge & Greg Carlyon (The Catalyst Group)
Publication Date: 7 November 2016
Publication Number: 2016/070
4513 Mohaka Catchment An Environmental Characterisation 2016
Author(s): Dr Barry Lynch
Publication Date: 1 September 2016
Publication Number: 4513
4744 RM1506 Spatial Oxygen-Flow Models for Streams of the Heretaunga Plains 2016
Author(s): Thomas Wilding
Publication Date: 1 September 2016
Publication Number: 4744
4818 RM16-32 Arable Lysimeter Review and Design Part 1 - 2015
Author(s): Dougall Gordon
Publication Date: 1 September 2016
Publication Number: 4803
Plan Change 6 (PC6) is a catchment specific change to the Hawke's Bay Regional Resource Management Plan (RRMP) to address specific water quality and allocation issues in the
Tukituki catchment. It was considered and determined by an independent Board of Inquiry as part of a Proposal of National Significance also involving the Ruataniwha Water Storage
Scheme, with the final decision being released on 25 June 2015.
Author(s): Cameron Drury, Cheal Consultants
Publication Date: 3 August 2016
Publication Number: 4795
4943 RM 17-17 Soil Quality of Exotic and Indigeneous Forests in Hawke's Bay
Author(s): Katie Beecroft
Publication Date: 1 August 2016
Publication Number: 4943
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