This is the finalised set of Urban limit boundaries which were formally adopted on the 26th October 2006 and publicly notified on 7th November 2006. The physical boundaries were shifted as part of the ammendment process but the GIS data also needed minor adjustments so that the polygon boundaries were coincident with the relevant coporate datasets (ie...

Shows the management zones used by Bay of Plenty Regional Council to manage and monitor water use and water quality in the region. 

This dataset shows areas in the Bay of Plenty with Geothermal activity. Geothermal field boundaries are indicative based on compilation of various studies from geophysical and borehole data. Key references are: Environment Bay of Plenty 1991: Geothermal Overview Report. Environment Bay of Plenty Technical Publication prepared by B.W., O'Shaughnessy. 88 p....

The containment area for woolly nightshade is the entire Bay of Plenty region, except for the two small areas surrounding Tauranga shown in this layer. These areas represent the woolly nightshade core infestation,and the Section D (1) rule does not apply. For Egeria densa, lagarosiphon and hornwort control areas, Section D rules apply to these three...

Map shows the water quality classifications from Regional Natural Resources Plan (RNRP). Water Quality Classifications Map – Environment Bay of Plenty Regional Council - C2165 Nov 2008. Water classifications include: fish spawning purposes, fish purposes, natural state lakes and rivers, managed state lakes, modified watercourses with ecological values,...

Rotorua Airshed is the area of Rotorua specified by the Minister for the Environment as a separate airshed, by notice in the New Zealand Gazette and referred to in Plan Change 13 (Air Quality). Rotorua Urban Airshed Boundary is the gazetted area referred to in the Operative Regional Air Plan as a Local Air Management Area (LAMA), a publicly notified...

The Boundary of Rotorua and Mount Maunganui Airshed. For more information about airsheds in the Bay of Plenty region, please visit the BOPRC website. Its aerial extent is defined on a map and gazetted. This gazetted area is referred to in the Operative Regional Air Plan as a Local Air Management Area (LAMA), a publicly notified airshed, or a polluted...

Access lanes and reserved areas within the Bay of Plenty region. Council suspended two areas from the navigation and safety bylaw 2010 (Lakes affected: Lake Tikitapu & Lake Rotoma). The data displayed in the printed version of the 2010 bylaw is in the archive feature dataset.GPS coordinates were collected manually (using boats). Data was made into...

Retrolens is made up of a treasure trove of aerial photographs that have been taken since the 1936 through to 2005. It is a New Zealand Crown archive and contains 500,000 images. Historical Image Resource came about as the result of a scanning project that was started in 2015 by partnerships between the Local Government Geospatial Alliance (LGGA) and Land...

Updated in September 2016. The layer shows the Tsunami Evacuation Zone Level 2 and Level 3. Level 3 covers the area of coastline extending from the mouth of the Waiora River west of Tauranga City to the mouth of the Maketu Estuary in the east. The rest of the areas in the BOP are level 2. Level 3 is based on high-resolution inundation modelling of a...

The purpose of this layer was to help build a baseline data set for a region wide Integrated Catchment Model. As there was no complete region scale coverage landuse dataset that modelled current state, we decided to build one. The project took 3 different approaches to map the landuse. 1) Using existing data landuse type datasets like lcdbv4, landcare...

Covers the whole of the Bay of Plenty Region. Provides those boundaries that have been defined for all major river catchments, most stream catchments and many of their tributaries. Each Polygon identified by hierarchy descending from primary catchment to subsequent tributaries/lakes. Catchments will be defined firstly by the named river or estuary that...

Mapping of Mangrove extent and densities within the Tauranga and Ohiwa harbours using aerial photos from 1943 to 2011 - data has been mapped from aerial photography. Whole of Ohiwa Harbour captured for 2007. All Tauranga Harbour and Ohiwa Harbour captured for 2003. All Tauranga Harbour captured for 1943 and 2003. All other years are just pockets. NOTE:...

Abundance of seagrass in the Ohiwa and Tauranga Harbours from 1943 to 1999. 1944, 1959, 1996 and 2011 are for the full harbour areas and have density information. The rest of the years are for Te Puna and/or Tuapiro only and show only the seagrass extents with no density information.

Bay of Plenty Regional Council Boundary.

Information on the availability of groundwater and how much has been allocated via consents.  Resource consent applicants interested in groundwater can use this information to inform consent application.

Shows the location of all consents (including current, expired and lapsed consents) held by Bay of Plenty Regional Council (BOPRC). The point data shows the location of the consented activities. Please note: This is a very large data set and it is advisable to zoom the location you are interested in and then use the filtered data set function. For more...

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