Site-specific Assessments of Environmental Effects

B-2 – Area 2 - Assessment of Environmental Effects 5.13 Historic Heritage Effects 71 5.14 Effects from the Storage and Use of Hazardous Substances 71 5.15 Conclusion 72 6. Management and Monitoring of Effects____________________________________ 74 7. Statutory Assessment _________________________________________________ 89 7.1 Introduction 89 7.2 Actual and Potential Effects 90 7.3 National Environmental Standards 90 7.4 National Policy Statements 92 7.5 Regional Policy Statement 98 7.6 Regional and District Plans 110 7.7 Other Matters 138 7.8 Part 2 of the Resource Management Act 1991 138 7.9 Section 105 of the Resource Management Act 1991 139 7.10 Section 107 of the Resource Management Act 1991 142 8. Conclusion __________________________________________________________143 LIST OF FIGURES Figure 1: Location of Area 2 in the context of the Waihi North Project. 2 Figure 2: Overview of Area 2. 4 Figure 3: Environmental setting of Area 2. 6 Figure 4: District Plan zoning of Area 2. 8 Figure 5: Allotments that comprise Area 2, and closest privately owned dwellings. 10 Figure 6: Willows Road Farm historic heritage features (Clough 2022). 13 Figure 7: Mataura Stream Water Race remnants (Clough 2022). 14 Figure 8: Pasture and riparian vegetation at Willows Road Farm (Boffa Miskell 2022b). 15 Figure 9: Willows Road Farm groundwater monitoring locations and interpreted piezometric contours (GHD 2022b). 17 Figure 10: Willows Road Farm west-east conceptual cross-section (GHD 2022b). 17 Figure 11: Mataura Stream and tributaries (GHD 2022). 18 Figure 12: Mataura Stream during high flow (Boffa Miskell (2022a)). 20 Figure 13: Tributary 2 impacted by the WRS (orange). 21 Figure 14: Tributary 2 in its lower reaches (Boffa Miskell (2022a)). 22

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