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
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
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
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
and the
frequency of undertaking the identified measures or procedures;
How overloading of the system will be prevented; and
How any offensive or objectionable odours at or beyond the boundary will be avoided in
accordance with condition 13 of consent 5839-2
Condition 21 Operations on site shall be undertaken in accordance with the Pond
Treatment System Management Plan, approved under condition 18 above, except in
circumstances when the proposed Implementation Plan, approved under condition
conducted at the landfills.
Each of the closed landfills is then discussed in a separate section (Sections 2 to 4).
In each subsection 1 (e.g. Section 2.1) there is a general description of the landfilled site and its discharges,
an aerial photograph or map showing the location of the former landfill, and an outline of the matters
covered by the water discharge permit.
Subsection 2 presents the results of monitoring of the SDC’s activities at each of the sites during the period
under
page numbers
If you have any questions relating to completion of this application form, please contact
l Council on telephone (06)765-7127 or email consents@trc.govt.nz
Lodge the application by signing below and sending the completed
Taranaki Regional Council, Private Bag 713, Stratford 4352.
Attention: Consents Administration Officer
(if application is emailed please do not mail a hard copy unless
requested to do so by the consents department.)
If you have not received an
did not indicate that the discharges were
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 was well managed and
maintained.
For reference, in the 2017-2018 year, consent
activities at a crematorium site, the
discharge of visible smoke or odours from a cremator may be found to be offensive.
During the reporting period, NPDC demonstrated a good level of environmental
performance with the resource consent.
For reference, in the 2015-2016 year, 71% of consent holders in Taranaki monitored through
tailored compliance monitoring programmes achieved a high level of environmental
performance and compliance with their consents, while another 24% demonstrated a good