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2025 Tukituki Water Security Scheme (TWSS)

This page shares the interests, processes and Tamatea Pōkai Whenua’s (TPW) Engagement with this development. This is NOT a TPW Project. The project, its genesis and current development information can be found  here.

 

Specific public materials on the development, such as cultural impact assessments and scientific reports are available below.​

The TWSS has been revitalised and is now linked to the new Government Fast-Track legislation, This proposal has been included into the schedule 2 of listed projects for fast track, therefore this has created a new pathway for this proposal.

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TPW has been engaging with the current consent holder, reviewing consent conditions, reports, issues and opportunities associated with a project of this nature. TPW has NOT supported and has NOT defined a position on this project as yet. Those positions and  decisions are pending the Tamatea Pōkai Whenua Board of Trustees (BOT) April hui.

As part of the process, the consents, Intellectual proprety (IP) and future projections of water security associated with this project are to be held in a Hawke’s Bay Community Water Trust (HBCWT). It is expected the membership and roles of the Trustees will change over time, as the phases of the project progresses.  (Noting NO surety can be provided at any stage pending activities such as consent extension, fast-track approval, consent approval, financial viability & developers interest etc). Currently, four Trustees have been agreed to be appointed to provide representation on the Trust. Two of the four seats will be held by Mana-Whenua, and that appointee process is to be facilitated by TPW. One community seat will be appointed by Central Hawkes Bay District Council (CHBDC) with the remaining one seat for ‘Users’ – represented by the existing consent applicants.

TPW has determined an initial values framework of areas it requires evidence and understanding of in order to determine our position. Furthermore, a Mana Whenua working party group has been formed to assist in traversing materials and populating our values framework. This working group are supported by a technical advisory group (TAG) consisting of four planners, 2 from TPW and 2 from a consultancy company. Both of these groups work in unison to traverse the materials that are of cultural and environmental significance to the Trust and its communities.  This is to provide oversight of  information for a robust decision making process to be undertaken by the Tamatea Pōkai Whenua Board of Trustees. 

Attachments:

Cultural Impact Assessment Report

For the proposed water storage dams written in 2010.

Cultural Impact Assessment Report

for the Ruataniwha water storage scheme Addendum report on Zone M written in 2013

Cultural Impact Assessment

of the proposed Tukituki water storage dams supplementary report on the Makāretu and Mākaroro proposed sites written in 2011.

TWS Project Presentation

developed by us in 2025 regarding the Tukituki Water Security Project

Cultural Values and uses

of the Tukituki catchment written in 2012

TPW Values Framework

developed by us in 2025 regarding Water Storage

Cultural Values and Uses Report

of the Tukituki catchment written in 2012 for Hawkes Bay Regional Council

Archaeological Assessment

of the Ruataniwha water storage written in 2013

Cultural Sites of Significance

Registered by the

Central Hawkes Bay District Council

Water Assessment Report

Produced by the Hawkes Bay Regional Council written in 2023

Re-Scoping Report

For Tukituki Water Security written in 2021

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