Queenstown Lakes District Council corporate and regulatory general manager Roger Taylor said the QAC consent for the extraction of gravel to form the base for the resa was caught up in a "much larger" consent for gravel extraction for the Otago Regional Council's proposed $1.2 million flood-mitigation works.
The Otago Daily Times understands George Wilson, of Longshot Ltd, had led an appeal of the consent, granted last year, which is understood to include other parties.
"All the consents are effectively a bundle of work that was considered together.
"That is now subject to appeal, so an alternative solution to source the necessary gravel required for the airport was sought," Mr Taylor said.
The airport is on a deadline to complete the resa by October 2011.
QAC chairman Steve Sanderson said the airport was able to source alternative material through an existing river extraction consent, held by Fulton Hogan.
"We secured our fill to come from Remarkables Park - primarily, it's coming from there.
"Some of it is coming from our [QAC] land.
"Fulton Hogan and several other contractors have existing consents to take gravel out of the river . . . for whatever they need it for, like roading," Mr Sanderson said.
The resa required high-quality gravel as a foundation to help with drainage - that gravel would now be supplied under Fulton Hogan's existing gravel extraction consent, he said.
Mr Taylor said it was not necessary for the resa to be stalled by the appeal and all parties were comfortable this was a good solution.
Fulton Hogan would start carting the river gravel to the extension site this week.
"It's anticipated it will take two weeks to cart the 10,000 to 20,000cu m needed for the resa base," Mr Taylor said.
