by the Tawhiti Stream Resource Consents Monitoring Programme, for
Fonterra Whareroa Dairy Factory and South Taranaki District Council Hawera Landfill, are included in other monitoring
programmes carried out by the Council.
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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
abattoir and rendering plant, located on Mountain Road at
Stratford, in the Kahouri Stream catchment, a tributary of the Patea River. The Company currently processes
only beef. Wastewater is treated in a two pond system, which is either irrigated to land when conditions
allow, or to the Kahouri Stream, ideally during high flow conditions. This report for the period July 2018 to
June 2019 describes the monitoring programme implemented by the Taranaki Regional Council (the
Council) to assess the
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 community around an activity, and may include cultural and social-
economic effects;
b. physical effects on the locality, including landscape,
groundwater. This is in part a result of heavy applications of nitrogen (effluent) early in the life of the plant.
Current effluent application is considerably lower than previous application rates. However, nitrate
concentrations in the soil profile underneath the irrigation areas and in the tributaries flowing through or
adjacent to the site remain elevated.
A narrow but concentrated plume of ammonia is present in the groundwater and extends from a previous
leak in an effluent storage basin. This
1.1.3 The Resource Management Act 1991 and monitoring
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 socio-
economic effects;
b. physical effects on the locality, including landscape, amenity and visual effects;
c.
operations.
A glossary of common abbreviations and scientific terms, and a bibliography, are
presented at the end of the report.
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1.1.3 The Resource Management Act (1991) and monitoring
The Resource Management Act 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 a discharger,
types of materials being received and how the discharge to land is
being managed.
During the year, the consent holder demonstrated a high level of environmental performance
and compliance with the resource consents. There were no incidents logged or complaints
received by Council about the site during the period under review.
This report includes recommendations for the 2013-2014 year.
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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
concern at the time of sampling. No
offensive or objectionable odours were detected beyond the boundary during inspections and there were
no complaints in relation to air emissions from the site.
During the year, the Company demonstrated an overall 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 Waihapa Production Station and
‘effects’ which are defined as positive or
adverse, temporary or permanent, past, present or future, or cumulative. Effects may
arise in relation to:
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(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 or
terrestrial;
(d)