✨ Easement Terms and Conditions
22 MAY 2008 NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 87 2383
described in the First Schedule to this notice for the
purposes of the Tararu Creek Floodwall upon the terms
and conditions set out in the Third Schedule to this
notice and shall vest in the Waikato Regional Council
("the Grantee") on the date of publication of this notice in
the New Zealand Gazette.
South Auckland Land District—Thames-Coromandel District
First Schedule
The Grantor’s Land
Lot 1 DP S11560, being the land contained in Computer
Freehold Register SA9D/569 ("the Land").
Second Schedule
Easement to be Acquired
A Flood Wall easement in gross over that part of the Land
marked “M” on SO 373303 ("the Easement Land").
Third Schedule
Terms and Conditions
Definitions
“Flood Wall” means the flood wall constructed on the
Easement Land and on such other land as shown on
SO 373303 and SO 376122 as a defence against the
flooding of Tararu Creek.
“Floodway” means the bed of Tararu Creek and such
adjoining land within the boundaries of the Flood Wall
shown on SO 373303 and SO 376122 that becomes
inundated by water as a result of heavy rain events.
Rights and powers
A. The full free right liberty and authority in perpetuity for
the Grantee and its engineers, contractors, officers,
agents and workmen to do and carry out the following on
the Easement Land:
(a) To enter on the Easement Land by its engineers,
officers, agents, and workmen to go, pass and repass
with or without machinery or vehicles over and
along the Easement Land at any time, and from time
to time.
(b) To delegate to any territorial authority as defined in
the Local Government Act 2002 that is a Catchment
Board under the Soil Conservation and Rivers
Control Act 1941 or any successor thereto the rights
and powers conferred by this grant.
(c) To remain on the Easement Land and do all things
as are necessary to maintain grasses thereon, and
to inspect the state of the Flood Wall, and to
maintain the Flood Wall on the Easement Land in a
state of efficiency including repairing, altering, or
reconstructing the Flood Wall.
(d) To plant, sow and maintain trees, shrubs, plants
or grasses on the Easement Land and to regulate or
prohibit interference with or the destruction thereof.
(e) To prevent or regulate the pumping or releasing of
any additional water, excepting existing natural
runoff and stormwater, into any open watercourse on
the Easement Land, or the overflow of artesian
water.
(f) To regulate the use of any constructed open
watercourse on the Easement Land, except in
relation to the release of existing natural runoff and
stormwater.
(g) To prescribe conditions on which other constructed
open watercourses may be connected or continue to
be connected with any constructed open watercourse
on the Easement Land.
(h) To regulate the construction and maintenance of
crossings over open watercourses on the Easement
Land.
(i) To prohibit the passing over any open watercourses
on the Easement Land except at appointed crossings.
(j) To prevent any open watercourse on the Easement
Land from being made wider or deeper than it is
at the time, whether by cleaning or otherwise, or to
prevent the course thereof from being altered
without the consent of the Grantee.
(k) To prohibit or regulate access to, or the passing over,
under, through, or along the Flood Wall or other
defence against water or other work of any kind
whatsoever constructed or maintained by or under
the control of the Grantee on the Easement Land.
(l) To prohibit or regulate the erection of any structure
or fences on the Easement Land.
(m) To prohibit or regulate the excavation of land on the
Easement Land.
(n) To prohibit or regulate the use of the Easement Land
by the Grantor and to require the Grantor to use the
Easement Land solely for the growing of shrubs,
plants or grasses and at all times to comply with the
directions of the Grantee in respect to the use of
Easement Land so that the Easement Land shall be
maintained and kept in such manner that any flood
wall or other defence against water or any water
course is maintained in a state of effectiveness.
(o) To regulate the cultivation of the Easement Land by
the Grantor with proper regard to the timing and
circumstances to prevent erosion of and avoid
deposits in water courses, and control floods.
(p) To prohibit the lighting of fires on the Easement
Land except under such circumstances and subject to
such limitations, conditions and restrictions as may
be prescribed by the Grantee.
(q) Generally to require the doing on or in respect of the
Easement Land of any act or thing which may be
likely to prevent or mitigate soil erosion or promote
soil conservation or the control of floods and to
prohibit the doing on or in respect of the Easement
Land of any act or thing which may be likely to
facilitate soil erosion or floods or in any way
damage or threaten the effectiveness of the Flood
Wall.
B. The Grantor must not:
(a) construct any buildings, nor install any equipment,
fitting or fixture or excavate the Easement Land or
alter, remove or otherwise deal with the subsoil
or contours of the Easement Land without the prior
written permission of the Grantee;
(b) carry out any works of any nature on the Land,
which in any manner affects the structural integrity
of the Flood Wall on the Easement Land.
(c) stockpile or fill with or permit the stockpiling of or
filling with soil, sand, gravel or other substance
or materials, or construct or permit the construction
of any roads, dam walls or other earthworks on the
Easement Land, which would in any way cause
the soil or the Flood Wall to subside or the
Floodway to be obstructed.
(d) plant, establish, or allow to become established any
cultivated or natural vegetation, including trees or
shrubs, which may at any time damage or adversely
affect the Easement Land or use thereof.
(e) allow, do, or permit to be done anything upon the
Land, by which the Easement Land or the Flood
Wall on the Easement Land shall be in any way
damaged or rendered unstable or unsafe.
C. (a) The parties acknowledge that swinging gates have
been installed on the Flood Wall on the Easement
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Online Sources for this page:
VUW Te Waharoa —
NZ Gazette 2008, No 87
Gazette.govt.nz —
NZ Gazette 2008, No 87
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