receive any complaints or register any unauthorised incidents
associated with any of the Company’s DWI activities during the 2012-2013 monitoring
period. The Company has demonstrated a high level of environmental performance and
compliance with the resource consent exercised during this period.
For reference, in the 2012-2013 year, 35% of consent holders in Taranaki monitored through
tailored compliance monitoring programmes achieved a high level of environmental
performance and compliance
dissolved salts
limit of 2,500 mg/L. The Company, upon request of the Council, removed the unlined cell
(termed ‘contingency’ cell) from the storage facility, which marked the removal of the last
unlined storage cell in Taranaki. Total heavy metal analysis undertaken by the Council
indicated concentrations close to or below Taranaki natural background concentrations for
these target metals in the soil. Previously landfarmed areas were inspected and found to be re-
vegetated to a high standard 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:
(a) the neighbourhood or the wider community around a discharger, and may
include cultural and social-economic effects;
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visits and the data supplied by the consent holder
have been used in compiling this report.
The Council did not receive any complaints or register any unauthorised incidents
associated with any of the Company’s DWI activities during the 2012-2013 monitoring
period. The Company has demonstrated a high level of environmental performance and
compliance with the resource consents exercised this period.
For reference, in the 2012-2013 year, 35% of consent holders in Taranaki monitored through
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 may include
cultural and social-economic effects;
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 a discharger, and may
include cultural and socio-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
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 may include cultural and social-
economic effects;
b. physical effects on the locality, including
results, their interpretations, and their significance for the
environment.
Section 4 presents recommendations to be implemented in the 2015-2016 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
presence of elevated nitrate concentrations in shallow
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
Council:
1. receives the memorandum noting the release of a paper by the Prime Minister’s
Chief Science Advisor on the issues surrounding fresh water in New Zealand
2. receives the report New Zealand’s fresh waters : values, state, trends and human impacts
3. notes the strong alignment between much of what the Council is undertaking or
promoting for environmental management of fresh water, and the stance taken by
Sir Peter within the report to address environmental issues.