|
Date
|
News
reports - Auckland
Drought / Water supply
|
Personal Contacts with
Watercare
|
|
January
|
Storage 65% |
See Section
6. for more details.
|
|
12/1
|
Watercare ad
campaign - water
conservation |
|
| |
January
rainfall below
average (67mm) at 36mm |
|
|
February
|
Storage 58% |
|
|
23/2
|
Sprinkler
restrictions start |
|
|
February
rainfall
below
average (78mm) at 53.1mm |
|
|
March
|
Storage 48% |
|
|
9/3
|
|
Call to
Watercare - drought enquiry
- M. Bourne unavailable |
|
22/3
|
Storage 45.5% |
Call M. Bourne
re drought details |
| |
March
rainfall above
average (84mm) at 94mm |
|
|
April
|
Storage 41% |
|
|
8/4
|
Storage 40% |
|
|
13/4
|
Sprinkler ban.
Hose restrictions |
|
|
April
rainfall below
average (94mm) at 68.4mm |
|
|
May
|
Storage 36%. Watercare
- 'now 1 in 100 year drought' |
|
|
6/5
|
Watercare
admits to water crisis
- set savings target |
|
|
25/5
|
|
Call M. Bourne
- request meeting
- WM proposal |
|
27/5
|
Storage32.5% Watercare
- 'not reach 50% by winter's end' |
|
|
28/5
|
J.
Salinger (NIWA) 'very low chances of high winter rainfall' |
|
|
31/5
|
NZ
Herald - 'need 50+ days good rainfall - remote chance' |
|
|
May
rainfall half
average (100mm) at 58mm |
|
|
June
|
Storage 31.4% |
|
|
3/6
|
Watercare
- 'Auckland run
out of water in 10 months' |
Call M. Bourne
- appointment
set for 8 June |
|
8/6
|
Sir B. Curtis
says Watercare
not capable of solving crisis |
Visit Watercare
- M. Bourne meeting
postponed |
|
9/6
|
Govt threat -
sack Watercare
officials - incompetent |
Call M. Bourne
- not available |
|
J.
Salinger (NIWA) 'this winter | spring as dry as last winter |
|
|
and July
rainfall only 20%
chance above average' |
|
|
10/6
|
Auckland mayors
approve pipeline
- cost $50-100 million. |
|
|
13/6
|
|
Call Watercare
- R. Chandler
set meeting for 14 June |
|
14/6
|
Storage 31.8%.
Govt considers
fast-track pipeline |
Meeting with
M. Bourne
- WM proposal outlined |
|
19/6
|
J.
Salinger (NIWA) '40 -1 odds winter rain 50% above normal' |
Formal proposal completed - to be
presented |
|
21/6
|
|
Call Watercare
- need endorsement
for proposal |
|
22/6
|
|
Visit Prof
R. Walker -
endorsement obtained |
|
27/6
|
Storage 32.6% |
Call Watercare
(A McPike) - need
resource consent, NIWA |
|
|
to monitor
trial, funding, etc.
Will investigate |
|
June
rainfall below
average (124mm) at 93mm |
|
|
July
|
|
|
|
1/7
|
|
Call A. McPike
- Watercare
cannot fund trial - 'too |
|
|
busy'.
Offer to do 'unofficial' trial - no objection |
|
4/7
|
Watercare
orders pipes for Waikato |
|
|
12/7
|
Storage 33.9% |
|
|
13/7
|
Watercare
- 'lakes about
40% full by end of winter' |
|
|
23/7
|
Storage 37%.
Waitakere
oppose pipeline - need audit |
Decision
to start unofficial WM trial - stop pipeline |
|
26/7
|
Storage 38.9% J.
Salinger (NIWA) 'drier August 60% likely' |
Call A.
McPike - trial begun - invited to monitor results |
|
27/7
|
Storage 45.1% |
|
|
30/7
|
Watercare -
admits drought not
"1in 100 year" event |
|
|
July
rainfall above
average (118mm) at 156.1mm |
|
|
August
|
Storage 47% |
Continue WM
trial |
|
8/8
|
Storage 51.5% |
|
|
17/8
|
Storage over 53% |
Call Sir B.
Curtis - advice
- problems with Watercare |
|
23/8
|
Tainui Trust
objects to Waikato
pipeline - 3 month delay |
|
|
29/8
|
|
Deliver
proposal and letter
to Watercare |
|
31/8
|
Watercare
- 'next 12 months inflows only 45% of average' |
Watercare letter
declines WM proposal |
|
August
rainfall below
average (118mm) at 90mm |
No further contact with Watercare |
|
September
|
|
Continue
WM trial |
|
5/9
|
Storage near 60% |
|
|
8/9
|
J.Salinger
(NIWA) - 'September
rainfall close to | below average' |
|
|
28/9
|
Storage near 70% |
|
|
September
rainfall
well
above average (91mm) at 208mm |
|
|
October
|
|
Continue WM
trial |
|
4/10
|
Storage
77%. Watercare - end to crisis and halt to
pipeline |
Success
- continue trial to ensure crisis over |
|
8/10
|
Storage near 80% NIWA
- 'October drier than usual' |
|
|
20/10
|
Auckland
Regional Trust to review
"future of Watercare" |
|
|
31/10
|
Storage 90.1% |
|
|
October
rainfall well
above average (76mm) at 133.8mm |
|
|
November
|
Storage over
90% |
End
of
WM trial |
|
2/11
|
J.Salinger
(NIWA)
- 'Auckland weather... a challenge' |
|
|
November
rainfall
below
average (83mm) at 40mm |
|
|
December
|
Storage /
rainfall declining.
Drought returns to North Island. |
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