with any injection well
currently in use, or the ability of the receiving formation to accept injected fluids. The results of groundwater
quality monitoring undertaken show no adverse effects of the activity on local groundwater resources.
Inspections undertaken during the monitoring year found sites being operated in a professional manner
and there were no Unauthorised Incidents in relation to any of the Company’s DWI consents.
During the year, the Company demonstrated a high level of
environment.
Section 4 presents recommendations to be implemented in the 2018-2019 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 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:
Regional Council (the Council) adopted a water
management plan for the river in September 1991.
At the end of the 2015-2016 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
analyses.
In general, the site was managed to a good standard in relation to stormwater and wastewater
management. Stormwater was managed to avoid any contact with chemicals stored on-site
with all wastewater either disposed of directly to trade waste or temporarily stored in the
bunded area of the site before being removed off-site for disposal or recycling at an approved
facility.
During the period under review, no sampling of the novaflow pipe containing leachate was
undertaken, as there
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 community around a discharger, and may
include cultural and social-economic effects;
Act 1991 (RMA) and the
Council’s obligations and general approach to monitoring sites through annual or
biennial programmes, the resource consents held by Company in the Waiongana
catchment, the nature of the monitoring programme in place for the period under
review, and a description of the activities and operations conducted at the GR & LJ
Jones quarry site.
Section 2 presents the results of monitoring during the period under review, including
scientific and technical data.
Section 3
abbreviations and scientific terms, and a bibliography, are
presented at the end of the report.
1.2 Compliance monitoring and the Resource Management Act
(1991)
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, and may
include cultural and socio-economic effects;
due to the time it has taken to resolve the
loss of the McColl’s Quarry flow recorder in the June 2015 flood.
The monitoring showed that overall the scheme was operated well, and within resource consent
requirements, with no breaches of lake level requirements or rise and recession rate restrictions for the
lower Patea River. There were a small number of occasions when the residual flow in the Lower Patea River
dropped below the consented limit, but this was due in-part to a Transpower
environment.
Section 4 presents recommendations to be implemented in the 2018-2019 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 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
nature of activities at a crematorium site, the discharge of visible
smoke or odours from a cremator may be found to be offensive.
A major upgrade of the main Newton cremator was undertaken in November 2007, which
improved its efficiency and is expected to extend its life until 2018.
A review of the consent condition controlling visible emissions was initiated in June 2006 to
deal with differences in methods of measuring smoke intensity between the two cremators.
The review was completed