B-2 – Area 2 - Assessment of Environmental Effects 119 In accordance with Objective 3.3.2, sufficient water will therefore remain within the catchment to meet the needs of existing and reasonably foreseeable domestic, municipal and animal drinking water requirements; to safeguard the life supporting capacity of freshwater and to meet the future social and economic needs of individuals and communities. The water take will also avoid further degradation of water quality and the assimilative capacity of water bodies. 7.6.1.4 Discharges to Water Objective 3.5.2 of the WRP seeks that discharges of contaminants to water be undertaken in a manner that (as relevant to Area 2): does not have adverse effects that are inconsistent with the water management objectives in Section 3.1.2;132 does not have adverse effects that are inconsistent with the discharges onto or into land objectives in Section 5.2.2;133 and ensures that decisions regarding the discharge of contaminants to water do not reduce the contaminant assimilative capacity of the water body to the extent that allocable flows as provided for in Chapter 3.3 are unable to be utilised for out of stream uses.134 Policy 2 of Section 3.5.3 follows a similar theme as Objective 3.5.2 and seeks that discharges that generate a more than minor adverse effects on surface waterbodies that are inconsistent with the policies in Section 3.2.3 of the WRP are avoided, as far as practicable, and otherwise remedied or mitigated. Likewise, it seeks that discharges do not cause significant adverse effects from flooding, erosion or downstream siltation. Policy 5 of Section 3.5.3 is specific to discharges into land and seeks that the adverse effects of those discharges on groundwater quality be minimised by ensuring that they do not compromise existing or reasonably foreseeable uses of groundwater, and avoid, as far as practicable, adverse effects on surface waterbodies that are inconsistent with the policies in Section 3.2.3 of the WRP (and otherwise, remedy or mitigate those effects). With respect to these provisions: Sections 7.6.1.2 and 7.6.1.10 of this statutory evaluation consider the effects of discharges in accordance with Objectives 3.1.2 and 5.2 and associated policies in 132 Objective 3.5.2(a), Section 3.5, Waikato Regional Plan. 133 Objective 3.5.2(b), Section 3.5, Waikato Regional Plan. 134 Objective 3.5.2(c), Section 3.5, Waikato Regional Plan.
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