operates a road transport depot located on Waitara Road at
Brixton, Waitara, in the Waiongana catchment. The operations at this site mainly involve packaged dairy
related products. Goods are stored under roofed catchments with the remaining areas being paved or
gravel. The site also has a parts wash facility with wastewater draining to sumps and then to the stormwater
system. There is a truck wash onsite that the Trust had advised drains to trade waste. This report for the
period July 2018 to June
these four sites have been assessed and are able to be avoided,
remedied or mitigated to such an extent that they will be no more than minor.
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No affected parties have been identified in relation to these resource consent
applications.
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formally considered and
adopted by the Council at its Ordinary meeting of 24 September 2019.
1.2 Scope and background
The Proposed Coastal Plan for Taranaki was publicly notified for submissions on 24
February 2018, with submissions closing on 27 April 2018.
Public notice calling for further submissions supporting or opposing the initial
submissions was made on 21 July 2018 and closed on 4 August 2018. Further
submissions may only be made in support of or opposition
were formally considered and
adopted by the Council at its Ordinary meeting of 1 October 2019.
1.2 Scope and background
The Proposed Coastal Plan for Taranaki was publicly notified for submissions on 24
February 2018, with submissions closing on 27 April 2018.
Public notice calling for further submissions supporting or opposing the initial
submissions was made on 21 July 2018 and closed on 4 August 2018. Further
submissions may only be made in support of or
Taranaki Regional Council (the Council) to assess STDC’s environmental and consent compliance
performance during the period under review. The report also details the results of the monitoring
undertaken and assesses the environmental effects of STDC’s activities at the Eltham, Hawera, Manaia,
Opunake and Patea landfills. Triennial monitoring of the Kaponga or Otakeho closed landfills was not
scheduled to take place during the year under review.
STDC holds 10 resource consents, consisting of
site complied with consent conditions at
the time. Receiving water inspections and sampling showed that the discharges were not causing any
adverse effects on the Waitara River or Mangahewa Stream at the time of monitoring.
During the year, the Company demonstrated a high level of both environmental performance and
administrative compliance with the resource consents. There were no unauthorised incidents recorded by
the Council in relation to the Company’s activities. The McKee Power Plant
environment be prohibited unless
there is an unforeseen emergency such as a tree falling on a pipe but that said, all risks
should be assessed and prevented. It is unacceptable in this day and age to be discharging
contaminants to fresh or seawater. There are always alternatives such as grey and black
water systems or controlled evaporation. As a society we use far too much clean water to
‘wash away’ contaminants. This attitude has to stop. In most places around the world they
wouldn’t think of
Discharge of
agrichemicals -
production land
a) The discharge shall be undertaken in a
manner which does not exceed any rate, or
contravene any other requirement, specified in
the agrichemical manufacturer’s instructions
b) There shall be no adverse effects from the
discharge or drift of any agrichemical beyond
the boundary of the subject property
c) The discharge shall be undertaken in
accordance with all mandatory requirements
set out in Sections 2, 5 and 6 and relevant
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
cultural and social-economic effects;
(b) physical effects on the locality, including landscape, amenity and visual effects;
(c) ecosystems, including effects on plants, animals, or habitats, whether aquatic
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
cultural and social-economic effects;
(b) physical effects on the locality, including landscape, amenity and visual effects;
(c) ecosystems, including effects on plants, animals, or