industrial drain which joins the stream at the main highway.
Receiving water monitoring results for the year were generally in line with historical ranges. However, as
occasionally noted in recent years, the water tends to be of a lesser quality mid-catchment due to the
increase or decrease of some parameters (suspended solids, biological oxygen demand, nitrate, ammoniacal
nitrogen, dissolved oxygen).
During the period under review, the instream dissolved zinc and copper concentrations met the
Factory and South Taranaki District Council Hawera Landfill, are included in other monitoring
programmes carried out by the Council.
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1.1.3 The Resource Management Act 1991 and monitoring
The RMA primarily addresses environmental ‘effects’ which are defined as positive or adverse, temporary or
permanent, past, present or future, or cumulative. Effects may arise in relation to:
a. the neighbourhood or the wider community around an activity, and may include
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currently able to provide. Some or all
of the data being provided may not yet have been audited however, and is therefore subject to change.
As we endeavour to continuously improve our products, we also reserve the right to further amend data where necessary and without
notice at any time. As a result, the information supplied to you now may not be the same as that subsequently produced for you or any
other requestor.
While the Council has exercised all reasonable skill and care in
Dan Quinn has got the patience of a saint as he does holey work at Yarrow Stadium. Dan and the crew from FieldturfNZ are spending long days stitching fibre into the main pitch as part of work installing international-quality hybrid turf ahead of kick-off on 3 September when the Yarrows Taranaki Bulls play Waikato in the Bunnings NPC. Two GrassMaster machines will take around 25 days to punch 1,000 rolls of artificial fibre – made up of 5km of fibre for every roll – into thousands of minute
stream found that although there were measurable changes in some parameters, most of
these would have resulted in only minor transient effects at most. In terms of guidelines, there was no
exceedances of guidelines for pH, ammoniacal nitrogen, or biochemical oxygen demand. Dissolved copper
results were below the USEPA acute guideline. Dissolved zinc concentrations were above the USEPA acute
guideline in most of the discharge and stream samples.
Overall, most consented discharges in the
eight resource consents which include 139 conditions setting out the requirements that
the Company must comply with. The Company holds two consents which authorise discharges to
contaminants air land and water from composting and irrigation (both of which expired in 2018). Another
consent authorises discharges of stormwater contaminants from a quarry elsewhere on the site, and there
are four land use consents for the erection, modification or use of culverts on site. Applications to replace
the
consented limits for their washwater and stormwater consents. A third
abatement notice was issued for failing to telemeter water take data to the Council and for exceeding
consented take limits.
Issues with environmental performance across sites generally related to exceedances of consented limits,
stormwater catchments and cleanfill extents. Issues with administrative performance generally related to
failing to update management plans or to supply data.
For reference, in the 2022/23 year,
monitoring period a total of 19 consents were held by the 14 industries monitored
under this programme that discharge wastewater, stormwater and/or leachate from the industrial area at
Fitzroy, New Plymouth to the lower Waiwhakaiho River and Mangaone Stream, or to land in the lower
Waiwhakaiho and Mangaone Stream catchments. The activities and impacts of the consent holders upon
water quality are discussed, as is the extent of their compliance with their permits, and their overall
environmental