Drainage Districts
We have four Land Drainage districts in Hauraki:
- Western Plains Drainage District
- Eastern Plains Drainage District
- Paeroa Rural Drainage District
- Taramaire Drainage District
Meeting dates, agendas and minutes can be found on the Meetings Page
Drainage Bylaw
Our drainage bylaw puts controls in place to assist with our drainage activities in rural and urban areas. It does not apply to any Waikato Regional Council drains or assets. Our bylaw includes rules around:
- Protecting our stopbanks, floodgates and pumps
- Privately owned drains
- Building, planting and grazing near our drains
- Construction of crossings
- Keeping our drains clear from debris
- Fencing of drains
- Taking or adding water to our drains
- Inspection and maintenance we might need to do
- Requests to maintain drains without the use of herbicide
- Consents and fees
View the Drainage Bylaw
Waikato Regional Council Land Drainage
Waikato Regional Council provides a drainage service for flat rural land in the Lower Waikato, Waipa, Central Waikato, West Coast and Waihou-Piako zones. There are about 1493 individual drains totalling 2063 kilometres in length within 84 separate drainage areas.
The drainage networks are essential to allow landowners to sustain pastoral farming and benefit some 172,000 hectares of land (about 7 per cent of the region’s area) by taking water off the land to river channels.
The council maintains the drains on behalf of the landowners, and this service is funded for by targeted land drainage rates. Other zone specific targeted rates are for catchment, flood protection, biosecurity and natural heritage works.
Find out more about Waikato Regional Council land drainage
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