Water permit: Various consents relating to alluvial gold mining
Water permit · Otago Regional · lodged 24 Nov 2023
- Council
- Otago Regional
- Consent number
- RM23.819.05
- Kind
- Water permit
- Subtype
- Groundwater Take Permit
- Application
- New consent (s88)
- Activity status
- Discretionary
- Lodged
- 24 Nov 2023
- Decided
- 26 Aug 2024
- Notification
- Publicly notified
- Submissions closed
- 19 Feb 2024
- Hearing
- Yes
- Decided by
- Local authority officer
- Appealed to the Environment Court
- No
- Working days to decide
- 101
- Council charges
- $16,164
- Legal description
- Section 3 SO 24438, Section 102 Block VIII Benger SD, Section 84 Block VII Benger SD, Section 110 118 Block VII Benger SD, Part Section 96 Block VIII Benger SD, Section 92 Block VIII Benger SD, Section 90 Block VIII Benger SD, Section 91 Block VIII Benger
How it went
- Application lodged
- Publicly notified
- Submissions closed
- Hearing began
- Hearing finished
- Granted
Properties
On 4 properties, matched by the legal description the council gave.
Processed with
- RM23.819.02 — Water permit, granted
- RM23.819.01 — Land use, granted
- RM23.819.06 — Discharge permit, granted
- RM23.819.04 — Discharge permit, granted
- RM23.819.03 — Discharge permit, granted
Otago Regional's RMA enforcement
The council's totals across its whole area, as it reported them to MfE. Not about this consent or this site: no record of individual breaches is published.
| Year | Actions | Abatement notices | Enforcement orders | Prosecutions | Convictions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024/25 | 125 | 56 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 2023/24 | 98 | 45 | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| 2022/23 | 80 | 55 | 0 | 5 | 1 |
| 2021/22 | 114 | 45 | 1 | 7 | 4 |
| 2020/21 | 55 | 23 | — | — | 2 |