Wendy Walker
[email address]
(04) 237 1401
30 March 2016
Aaron Livingston
website: fyi.org.nz
reference: [FYI request #3705 email]
Dear Aaron
OFFICIAL INFORMATION ACT REQUEST - WATER RESOURCES
I refer to your request under the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act
1987 with reference to your query about water resources, made using the website fyi.org.nz
We understand Wellington Water Limited has responded to you directly via that website, but
for completeness we are setting out that information for you again in this letter.
Your requests and our responses are as follows.
1.
I would like any or all documentation on Porirua City Council’s consent forms for
extracting water from all local streams in the Porirua area.
•
All consents relating to water extraction are managed by Greater Wellington Regional
Council. Water is not extracted from Porirua streams for water supply purposes.
2.
Also any or all information on where Porirua gets its water supply.
•
Porirua’s water supply, along with that of Wellington and the Hutt Valley, is sourced
from extraction points on the Hutt River at Kaitoke, the Waiwhetu aquifer (extracted
from bores in Waterloo, Lower Hutt) and the Wainuiomata and Orongorongo Streams,
also in Lower Hutt.
The “any and all” part of your query is too broad to answer without further clarification
on what is being sought, but should you require any more detail please contact
Alexander van Paassen at Wellington Water
([email address]) and he will be able to source more
information for you.
Yours sincerely
Wendy Walker
CHIEF EXECUTIVE