found
during discharge sampling. All incidents (substantiated or otherwise) were investigated and appropriate
enforcement action was taken as required.
During the year, ABB Ltd demonstrated a high level of environmental performance and compliance with
their resource consents and a good level of administrative performance.
During the year, GrainCorp Feeds Ltd demonstrated a high level of environmental performance and
compliance with their resource consents and a high level of
particulates and nitrogen oxides were all below levels of concern at the
time of sampling. No offensive or objectionable odours were detected beyond the boundaries during
inspections. One complaint was received in relation to air emissions from the site, however it was not
considered that STL had breached resource consent conditions.
During the period under review, STL demonstrated an overall high level of both environmental performance
and administrative compliance with the resource consents. The
environment.
Section 4 presents a summary of recommendations to be implemented in the 2014-2015
monitoring year.
A glossary of common abbreviations and scientific terms, and a bibliography, are
presented at the end of the report.
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
be determined if the results originated from the activities at the consent holder’s site or from the
neighbouring properties. The guideline reflects a deposition rate that may cause complaints in a residential
area.
In the 2016-2017 year there were no unauthorised incidents related to discharges from any consent holders
in the Lower Waiwhakaiho area.
During the year, Downer EDI Works Ltd demonstrated a high level of environmental and administrative
performance with their resource
year under review included four inspections, four sets of water
samples collected for pesticide analysis, two biomonitoring surveys of receiving waters and an intertidal
marine inspection. The Company provided groundwater and air quality data from monitoring carried out by
independent consultants.
The monitoring showed that DAS has had no significant impact on air quality in the vicinity of the plant or
on water quality in the Herekawe Stream. No complaints in relation to DAS’s activities
The Resource Management Act 1991 (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
programmes, a summary of the resource
consents held by companies in the Waitaha catchment, and the nature of the
monitoring programme in place for the period under review.
Each company’s activity is then discussed in detail in a separate section (sections
2 to 13).
In each subsection 1 (e.g. section 2.1) there is a general description of the industrial
activity and its discharges, a photograph or map showing the location of the activity,
and an outline of the matters covered by the company’s
Section 4 presents recommendations to be implemented in the 2019-2020 monitoring year.
A glossary of common abbreviations and scientific terms, and a bibliography, are presented at the end of
the report.
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
formalise this arrangement.
Regional Transport Committee
Creation and membership of Committee
7. The Land Transport Management Act 2003 (LTMA) requires the reconstitution of each
Regional Transport Committee following triennial local body elections.
8. Following the local government elections in October 2019, the Regional Transport
Committee (RTC or the Committee) is now required to be reconstituted. The RTC
consists of only those agencies that make a funding contribution, and …
each site.
Receiving water inspections, in conjunction with sampling conducted by both the Council and
STOS during the 2014-2015 period, showed that the site discharges were not causing any
adverse effects in the Ngapirau or Kapuni Streams. This was supported by the findings of the
macroinvertebrate surveys.
There were no adverse effects on the environment resulting from the exercise of the air
discharge consents. The ambient air quality monitoring at the Maui and Kapuni Production