inspections, two
discharge samples, 11 receiving water samples , two biomonitoring surveys of receiving
waters, and four ambient air quality analyses. No monitoring was scheduled or required at the
Marfell or Okoki landfill sites during the year under review.
During the monitoring year there were no incidents logged by Council associated with
NPDC’s landfills covered in this report.
Overall, NPDC demonstrated a high level of environmental performance and compliance with
their resource consents.
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
according to on site best
practice, the discharge was therefore unlikely to have had any significant or on-going
adverse effect on the receiving environment.
Shell Todd Oil Services Ltd notified the Council of its intention to combust gas
intermittently between 16 November 2013 and 20 December 2013. No offensive or
objectionable odours, smoke or dust associated with activities at the wellsite were observed.
The drilling fluids and cuttings were disposed of at a consented off site facility.
service or a lifeline utility,
or actual or imminent attack or warlike act (see full
definition in Annex A Glossary).
In most small incidents our emergency services (Police,
Fire and providers of health and disability services) can
cope on their own. Where they can’t, either due to the
scale of the event, or there is a need for more
legislative powers, then civil defence emergency
management measures are used. Activation of civil
defence emergency management
to be implemented in the 2016-2017 monitoring
year.
A glossary of common abbreviations and scientific terms, and a bibliography, are
presented at the end of the report.
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The Resource Management Act 1991 and monitoring 1.1.3
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
discharge of a small quantity of wastewater to the Waitara stormwater
network, following maintenance work on Methanex’s wastewater pipeline. The incident was considered by
the Council to be reasonably unforeseeable and related to mechanical/installation failure. The event was
appropriately responded to by Methanex. For this reason no enforcement response was considered suitable
or necessary.
During the year, Methanex demonstrated a high level of environmental and administrational performance
of the monitoring
programme in place for the period under review.
Each of the concrete plants is then discussed in a separate section (Sections 2 to 4).
In each of the first subsections (e.g. Section 2.1) there is a general description of the
concrete plant, its processes and discharges, an aerial photograph or map, and an
outline of the matters covered by the consent holder’s water discharge permit.
Subsection 2 presents the results of monitoring of the consent holder’s activities
reference, in the 2016-2017 year, consent holders were found to achieve a high level of environmental
performance and compliance for 74% of the consents monitored through the Taranaki tailored monitoring
programmes, while for another 21% of the consents, a good level of environmental performance and
compliance was achieved.
In terms of overall environmental and compliance performance by STDC over the last several years, this
report shows that the consent holder’s performance remains at a good or
(the Council) adopted a water management plan for the river in September 1991.
At the end of the 2017-2018 monitoring period a total of 22 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
Waiongana
catchment, and Okato landfill in the Kaihihi catchment. These landfills are non-
operational and are fully reinstated. They do, however, retain all necessary consents to
act as contingency sites if the Regional landfill at Colson Road has to cease accepting
waste, or there are transportation issues in the event of an emergency.
This report covers the results and findings of the monitoring programme implemented
by the Council in respect of the consents held by NPDC that relate to the