B-7 – Area 7 - Assessment of Environmental Effects 6 2.2 CULTURAL LANDSCAPE The cultural landscape in which this site sits is described in Section 5 of the Overarching AEE. 2.3 ENVIRONMENTAL SETTING TSF1A and TSF2 are (respectively) positioned on the south and south-west faces of a ridge. TSF3 will be located immediately east of TSF1A, also on the southern side of the ridge. Vehicular access to TSF3 will be via internal access roads servicing the existing TSFs, which themselves are accessed off Baxter Road. Most of the TSF3 site is currently pastural farmland with linear shelter belts and farm tracks along field boundaries. Within the site, native vegetation and scattered wilding pines are present, mainly along the northern edge of the proposed TSF3 footprint, including vegetation within an area identified in the Hauraki District Plan (“HDP”) as Significant Natural Area T13UP166 (“SNA166”). Channelised tributaries flow south from the ridge, through the TSF3 footprint to join the Ruahorehore Stream at the south of the site. The Ruahorehore Stream then runs west to the Ohinemuri River. The Ruahorehore Stream and the unnamed tributaries within Area 7 are not subject to a particular Water Management Class under the Waikato Regional Plan (“WRP”), although the Ohinemuri River, to which the Ruahorehore Stream reports, is included in the ‘Significant Trout Fisheries and Trout Habitat Water Class’ Water Management Class.
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