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1. Introduction
Taith Consulting Limited has been commissioned by Taranaki Regional Council (TRC) to undertake
a public transport network review, for the following services which are contracted to private
operators:
• New Plymouth (Citylink urban and school routes);
• Ōpunake - Hāwera –
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
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
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
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