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NZ Transport Agency and Tauranga City Council<br />

<strong>Mangatawa</strong> Drain Flood Bypass and TEM Storm<strong>water</strong> AEE<br />

• Farmland (e.g. sheep dips that may have used persistent chemicals containing arsenic, dieldrin, aldrin and<br />

lindane and DDT; offal pits; farm tips etc);<br />

• Horticultural land (persistent chemicals used in pesticides/herbicides such as DDT);<br />

• Railway land (e.g. hydrocarbons);<br />

• Flood plains (e.g. contaminants associated with runoff from land); and<br />

• Areas of unknown fill (e.g. contaminants vary according to the source of the fill material).<br />

Further to these activities, where <strong>storm</strong><strong>water</strong> is currently collected within grass swales and drainage channels,<br />

it is likely that the build up of contaminants in the soils within these areas has occurred.<br />

Investigations will need to be undertaken with the aim of enabling the potential risks associated with any<br />

contamination (if found to be present) to be assessed such that appropriate management mechanisms can be<br />

defined and implemented. A programme of land use review and intrusive site investigating is programmed to<br />

take place be<strong>for</strong>e construction commences in order to characterise site contamination.<br />

5.12 Land Drainage<br />

Much of the route is low-lying and serviced by land drainage works. In the Te Maunga area drainage is<br />

currently through soakage or the TCC piped system. A major drain, the <strong>Mangatawa</strong> drain, flows east to west<br />

between the current SH2 and East Coast Main Trunk (ECMT) railway, draining the existing SH2 and the<br />

Papamoa Hills <strong>catchment</strong> to the south. This discharges to the Harbour at Rangataua Bay. This drain has<br />

insufficient capacity, and in large floods it spills north across SH2 into the Papamoa urban area.<br />

5.1<strong>2.</strong>1 Catchments<br />

There are three distinct <strong>catchment</strong>s important to this proposal along this section of motorway up to Domain<br />

Road. The principal ones are <strong>Mangatawa</strong> (south of the TEM), Maranui and Wairakei north of the TEM, in the<br />

west and east respectively). These <strong>catchment</strong>s are shown on the plan 3932036-ck119 in Appendix 3.<br />

a. Maranui Catchment<br />

The Maranui Catchment contains a mix of residential and rural land and the flow path <strong>for</strong> this <strong>catchment</strong> is<br />

through the Maranui swale through the Storm<strong>water</strong> Treatment Wetland to Rangataua Bay. Perhaps the most<br />

significant aspect of the <strong>catchment</strong> is its large areas of undeveloped residentially zoned land. The implications<br />

are important <strong>for</strong> <strong>storm</strong><strong>water</strong> generation and runoff.<br />

Status: Final Page 48 April 2009<br />

Project Number: 3932036<br />

NZ1-1552092-<strong>Mangatawa</strong> Drain Flood Bypass and TEM Storm<strong>water</strong> AEE

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