Key Documents
Key documents relating to the Tongariro River and its catchment are provided here in pdf format to view, download, or print.
The Tongariro River Flood Protection Scheme was designed and constructed during 2004-2007. The intention of the scheme is to provide flood protection to Turangi to the design standard for floods in the Tongariro River up to a 1%AEP event. To ensure service level delivery the assets and works are monitored and surveyed and their performance assessed regularly. This study reassesses the service level based on review of the catchment hydrology, hydraulic modelling based on 2016 channel cross-sections, and comparison with 2014 asset crest survey data.
Lower Tongariro River: Potential breakout options management options study. Tonkin and Taylor – March 2016
Taupo District Flood Hazard Study: Tongariro River. For: Environment Waikato and Taupo District Council, July 2011
Tongariro River and Catchment Management Plan – December 2006
The higher Lower Tongariro River, report by Greame Smart (NIWA), produced for Environment Waikato January 2005.
Tongariro River Flood Protection Scheme Proposed Annual Works Programme 2024/2025 updated 27 June 2024
Tongariro Flood Protection Scheme Annual Works Programme 2023-2024
Advocates for the Tongariro River – Feedback on 2023/24 Annual Works Programme
Tongariro Flood Protection Scheme Annual Works Programme 2022-2023
Tongariro Flood Protection Scheme Annual Works Programme 2020-2021
Flood Protection Scheme: Proposed Annual Works Programme 2019-20 – June 2019
Flood Scheme Asset Maintenance 2019-20 – June 2019
Tongariro River Annual Works Programme – 2018-19
Tongariro Annual Works Programme – 2018
Draft Tongariro River Works Plan 2016-2017. Waikato Regional Council – June 2016
Draft Tongariro Annual Work Plan 2015-16 – June 2015
Tongariro River Works Plan 2014-2015 – June 2014
Waikato Regional Council Tongariro River Works Plan 2013-2014
Tongariro River Flood Control Scheme: Draft Management Plan for Floodway Maintenance – May 2012
Report of the Waikato Regional Council Hearing Commissioners on applications by the Waikato Regional Council (River and Catchment Services Group) to the Waikato Regional Council (Resource Use Group) for erosion control/flood protection works.
Select Committee final report on the Natural and Built Environment Bill – 2023
Submission by the Advocates on the Natural and Built Environment Bill – Jan 2023
Government response to select committee on trout farming – 2021
Select committee final report on trout farming – August 2020
Advocates for the Tongariro River submission opposing trout farming – 2020
Final Report Conservation (Indigenous Freshwater Fish) Amendment Bill 87-2 – July 2019
Legal Opinion on Indigenous Freshwater Fish Amendment Bill by Sir Geoffrey Palmer – August 2018
Carp Decision Submission – December 2015
Tongariro River Power Scheme, Resource consents regarding the Tongariro River as of 24 June 2024
Flow Management in the Tongariro River by R. T. T. Stephens first published 1989
Review of electricity planning and electricity generation costs from Bernie Galvin to Roger Douglas, 27 March 1985
Tongariro Fishery Provision resulting from the power project, 4 April 1968
Lake Taupo Zone Committee Water and Climate Change – August 2019
Simon Stewart PhD Presentation – 28 March 2018
Simon Stewart’s PhD – May 2018
Was didymo here all along? By Jamie Morton, science writer for the NZ Herald – May 2014
The Origin of Invasive Microorganisms Matters for Science, Policy, and Management: The Case of Didymosphenia geminata – May 2014
The Didymo story: The role of low dissolved phosphorus in the formation of Didymosphenia geminata blooms – March 2014
Evaluating the use of 1080: Predators, poisons and silent forests – June 2013
Building a Bluegreen Future: An environment policy paper by the New Zealand National Party – March 2012
Exploring Future Opportunities for the Taupo Fishery: A Review of the Taupo Sports Fishery – May 2013
Terms of Reference: Taupo Fishery Review – February 2012
Shags and the Taupo Fishery. Target Taupo, issue 18 – March 1995
Iwi Purchase Prison Land – April 2015