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The project was meant to boost renewable energy production, but local groups worried its proposed stream diversions would do severe harm to the environment.
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This has been a tremendous relief for irrigators on the Waimea Plain - removing the need for rationing and having to reduce crop levels - as well as benefiting urban and commercial water users of council-managed reticulated supplies.