A new Central Hawke's Bay operation is on the cards for Te Mata Mushrooms, which has filed application for a water take for mushroom growing purposes at a site near Waipukurau.
In December the Hawke's Bay Regional Council received the resource consent application to take water for irrigation, compost production and mushroom growing purposes at a site in Mt Herbert Rd, Central Hawke's Bay.
The application requests an increase in the volume of water take for an existing consent, and for a new water permit to take water under high flow conditions which would be stored in a reservoir within the bed of an un-named tributary of the Tukituki River.
The application noted consent was sought to irrigate up to 38ha of pasture and process crops in the area east of Mt Herbert Road, and up to 9ha of apples within the area west of Mt Herbert Road in addition to the 11 ha (west of Mt Herbert Road) already irrigated.
"The 20ha area west of Mt Herbert Road may also be used for pasture and process crops, and while it is proposed to construct a composting and mushroom growing operation on the land east of Mt Herbert road in time, this area will be in pasture or process crops until that time."