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Northland region

Groundwater Zone: Maunu North GW

Water in Northland is a valuable resource used for agriculture, horticulture, water supply to towns and cities and industry. Northland has a dense network of relatively short and small streams with over 14,000 source to sea surface water catchments. Northland has a relatively high annual rainfall however this is not spread evenly throughout the year and prolonged dry periods are common during summer and autumn months. The rainfall pattern along with catchment geology and size influences stream flows and groundwater availability. Water allocation in most of Northland is relatively small proportional to mean annual low flows. However, a few catchments have high levels of allocation for a variety of consumptive uses. Abstraction of the full allocation in these catchments has the potential to cause environmental issues during prolonged dry periods because demand during this time is the highest. The Council is currently reviewing its Soil and Water Plan, with a draft plan due to be release in July 2016. The key focus of the review in terms of water quantity is establishing allocation limits, providing reasonable security of supply for water users and compliance with the National Policy Statement.

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Groundwater in this zone

Regional councils collect information about how much water is available and manage resource consents for those wishing to take water from groundwater supplies. Use the buttons below to view regional information on: how much water is available, where it comes from and how its used.

Water Quantity

Groundwater available: Irrigation
Industrial
Stock
Hydroelectrical
Town supply
  • Groundwater in this zone
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    Groundwater in this zone

    Accurately estimating the total amount of water available in a groundwater management zone is not currently possible. Regional Councils are working with the Ministry for the Environment on the best way to calculate this figure. We will include these figures on LAWA when they become available. In the meantime, for more information about a particular groundwater management zone, contact your regional council.

    The Council is in the process of determining water management zones and allocation limits. Draft zones and proposed allocation limits will be circulated for community consultation in July 2016. To enable meaningful reporting of water allocation and use, the surface water zones have been initial drafted based on the source to sea catchments and geographical grouping of the small coastal catchments. The Groundwater management zones are currently the based on the management boundaries of Northlands main aquifers.

  • Water consents: How much water is consented and used?

    Groundwater available to consent

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    Consented water in this groundwater zone

    Use the tables below to look at how much water is available compared with how much is actually consented within this water management zone. Click the plus to expand subzones where available

  • Water consents: How is consented water used?

    Consents by use in this groundwater zone

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    Consented water in this zone

    Overall annual volume for
    Relative breakdown
    Activity Percentage of total consented Total volume Number of consents
    Total % m3

    The above table shows the proportion of water consented for irrigation, industrial, stock, town supply and other.

Monitored sites in this Zone

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