their significance for the environment.
Section 4 presents recommendations to be implemented in the 2017-2018 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:
farmland. Disposals at the Spence site were completed in 2012.
All three sites are continually monitored and reported on annually, as consents have not yet
expired or been surrendered.
This report for the period July 2014 to June 2015 describes the monitoring programme
implemented by the Taranaki Regional Council (the Council) to assess the environmental
performance during the period under review, and the results and environmental effects of
their activities.
Origin Energy holds two resource
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List of figures
Figure 1 Location of bacteriological sampling sites and treatment system 5
List of photos
Photo 1 Wastewater ponding and weed growth on the surface of the eastern filter
bed, 21 December 2015 8
Photo 2 Eastern filter bed with no wastewater ponding or weed growth, 16
February 2016 9
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1. Introduction
1.1 Compliance monitoring programme reports and the Resource
Management Act 1991
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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, and may
include cultural and socio-economic effects;
(b) physical effects on the locality, including landscape, amenity and visual
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 or
terrestrial;
(d) natural and physical
dwelling is situated at the front of the property close to
the road.
Effects of AFT’s current operations on Poppas Peppers
5. Offensive odour from the chicken farm is ongoing and regular. People
frequently visit or home and business, and we are often asked if we have
just put manure in our greenhouses. We have to explain that we run a fully
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contained hydroponic reticulation irrigation system that recycles any runoff.
We do not use organic
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 or terrestrial;
d. natural and physical resources having special
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 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
relation to
suspended particulates, dust deposition rates or odour beyond the site boundary.
There were three odour complaints received in the 2016-2017 period that were associated with the Colson
Road landfill. Although it was found that the site was compliant with consent conditions at the time of
investigation, and on two occasions there were low level intermittent odours were found.
Overall, NPDC demonstrated a good level of environmental performance and administrative compliance
with
The Council did not receive any complaints or register any unauthorised incidents
associated with any of the Company’s DWI activities during the 2014-2015 monitoring
period.
During the year under review Todd Energy Limited demonstrated a high level of
environmental performance and a high level of administrative performance and compliance
with the resource consents.
For reference, in the 2014-2015 year, 75% of consent holders in Taranaki monitored through
tailored compliance monitoring