any stormwater treated in accordance with a finalised
Soil Erosion and Sediment Control Plan that has been approved by the Chief Executive,
Taranaki Regional Council, acting in a certification capacity. This finalised plan shall
conform to the Waikato Regional Council’s Guidelines for Soil Disturbing Activities and
shall detail methodology/ design of stormwater drainage from the cleanfill, and
maintenance of sediment control practices, with a specific focus on rainfall events.
14. This
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Executive summary
Taranaki has a very dense drainage network, the natural consequence of its frequent and
plentiful rainfall and of gravity’s effects upon water driving it downhill to the sea. Stream
flows become the habitat of freshwater ecology and gain value for their in-stream uses and
benefits. In Taranaki as in other parts of New Zealand, land clearance and associated
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a heavy rainfall event. The air quality in the Bell
Block Bypass area can be considered as ‘excellent’ or ‘good’ for 100 % of the time (Table 2).
Table 2 Categorisation of results - entire dataset
National Environmental Standard for PM10 =
50 µg/m3- 24 hour average.
Category Measured values Days (%)
Excellent <10% of the NES, (0-5µg/m³) 18 (30%)
Good 10-33% of the NES, (5-17µg/m³) 41 (70 %)
Acceptable 33-66% of the NES, (17-33 µg/m³) 0 (0%)
Alert
some deeply
buried seed may survive for up to 10 years or more. Seedlings can emerge from soil depths
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of up to 10 cm, but optimal germination is at 1–2 cm depth. Counts have shown seed
numbers up to 20,000/m2 but typically 5–10,000/m2 under light infestations.
YBG occurs in areas with adequate summer rainfall, usually where the annual rainfall
exceeds 500 mm per annum, although it can tolerate dry conditions once
the Eltham municipal wastewater
treatment system (WWTP) located to the east of Eltham in the Mangawhero catchment. STDC
holds a resource consent to allow it to discharge treated wastewater to the Mangawhero
Stream under high rainfall conditions only. Previously STDC also held a consent for the
discharge of emissions into the air but this expired in mid 2011 when it was no longer
considered necessary as the nature of the biological processes at the plant met a ‘permitted’
category in the
sand and
vegetation growth consists mostly of pasture. Test pitting and the logging of boreholes
on site indicated a relatively shallow water table. Test bores were augured to 10 m both
around the waste holding pit area and to the south-western site boundary, revealing
alternating layers of sand and clays. Bore construction also revealed localised peat
layers within some augured cores (approximately 4–8 m below surface). Average
annual rainfall for the site is 1,043 mm (taken from the nearby
mobilised a cleanup crew, machinery and
equipment. Spill booms and hay bales were put in place to contain the spill and the
Oscar unit from the Port Taranaki storage site was also mobilised.
2.6 Mr Steele first noticed an irregularity with the unnamed tributary a week prior but
assumed it to be discolouration due to heavy rainfall until viewing it again on the
8th October.
2.7 The leak was notified to Ngati Ruanui Iwi, under the OENZ spill notification
procedure, at 4.10 pm on 8th October