IN ATTENDANCE: Crs Gordon, Laurich, Tregidga, Messrs L D Cavers (District Engineer), B Somers (Utilities Manager), A Anderson (Ngati Hako)

A Anderson opened the meeting with a Karakia timatanga.

RESOLVED

THAT the apologies of His Worship the Mayor BJ Morrison and Mr P Te Moananui (Hauraki Maori Trust Board).

WWCC00/9 Baker/Carmine CARRIED

Pursuant to Section 46A(7) of the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987, the Chairman is to call for late items to be accepted. There were none.

WWCC00/10 Carmine/Baker CARRIED

The Utilities Manager advised that the Jetflote trial was programmed for September 26 2000 at Waihi.

RESOLVED

THAT the minutes of the meeting of the Water and Wastewater Consultative Committee held on Tuesday 8 August 2000 be taken as read and confirmed.

WWCC00/11 Baker/Carmine CARRIED

The Utilities Manager advised that a district wide map showing the location of each of the schemes and consents as requested was included with the agenda.

Iwi Membership on the Committee has been invited from the following Hauraki Iwi:

Te Ruunanga A Iwi O Ngati Tamatera

Ngati Maru Iwi Authority

Ngati Tara Tokanui Management

Te Kupenga O Ngati Hako

Te Runanganui O Ngati Paoa

Hauraki Maori Trust Board

The Utilities Manager advised that agendas had been sent to all Iwi advising them of the meeting. He commented that it was disappointing that more members had not attended the meeting.

It was suggested that Councils Liaison Officer J McIver approach other Iwi members to see whether they wished to attend these meetings. They would continue to be informed of meeting dates and sent copies of the minutes of the meetings.

Attached was a map showing where the key water and wastewater consents were located.

The Utilities Manager gave a brief explanation of each of the sites on the map.

Attached was a list of the current Resource Consents relating to water and wastewater and a brief description relating to each.

The Utilities Manager gave a description of each of the supplies.

A discussion was held on whether Thames Coromandel District Council were going to be connecting to this water take. A decision by them had not yet been made.

It needed to be ensured that future water sources were available for the Hauraki District Council ratepayers.

From a tangatewhenua perspective – it needed to be thought about how to get with Council to deal with these issues.

It was decided that a letter be written to the Thames Coromandel District Council advising them of the Committee’s concerns and asking for a progress report from them for presentation at the next WWCC meeting.

RESOLVED

THAT a letter be written to Thames Coromandel District Council asking them for a progress report.

WWCC00/12 Carmine/Baker CARRIED

The renewal of the treatment plant consents has been publicly advertised. The closing date for submissions was Friday the 1 September. Should any submissions be received in opposition to the project, it was likely that negotiation will need to be held with the concerned parties. It was recommended initial negotiations be lead by Councillor Johansen and the Utilities Manager. The results of the negotiation and any significant changes are reported back to this Committee.

Iwi representatives advised that they had conveyed their concerns but no reply had yet been received. The Utilities Manager would address this.

WWCC00/13 Carmine/Baker CARRIED

The trial to test the Jetflote process at Waihi was planned for the week starting the 24 September. A site visit was planned for the afternoon of the Tuesday 26 September, being deferred to the 27^th September should the weather be unsuitable.

Initial negotiations had been held with Environment Waikato staff over the possibility of not constructing the lower Walmsley intake in exchange to bringing forward the permanent solution to Waihi’s raw water sources based on the water supply strategy. The proposal had a favourable response and a formal application was now being prepared to support the change.

This item had been referred to this Committee from the Works Committee.

It was agreed that Utilities Manager would produce a report relating to the proposed Station Road high level overflow, which would be presented to the Committee prior to the lodging of resource consents.

WHIRITOA SEWERAGE TREATMENT (42.602.017)

As part of the resource consent conditions, soil monitoring probes and an inflow meter had to be installed. Before installation Environment Waikato had to approve the type of probe and operational methodology. This approval has now been granted and work will commence soon on installing both items. Funding for both items have been included in this years estimates.

A presentation to the Environment Waikato elected members on the proposed water supply strategy and water and wastewater resource consent issues was programmed for the 10 October 2000.

The time of the meeting would be advised.

The next meeting would be Tuesday 3 October 2000 at 10.00 am.

There were no late items.

A Anderson closed the meeting with a Karakia whakamutunga.

The meeting closed at 11.45 pm.

D Johansen

October 2000