Revision No:1.5
Date:12-6-2020
Controller: C Kay
1.0 Purpose of the Plan
The purpose of this document is to ensure the operation of the Uruti farm is managed appropriately
using Good Management Practices and operates within regulatory rules and resource consent
conditions. A major focus of this plan is to avoid, remedy or mitigate the loss of nitrogen to surface
water and ground water from irrigated wastewater onto the effluent block.
2.0 General
The Uruti farm was purchased in 2001
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
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
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.
the site of the wreck
of any vessel where the wreck occurred before 1900; and
ii. provides or may provide, through investigation by archaeological methods, evidence
relating to the history of New Zealand
It is also possible for Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga (Heritage New Zealand) to declare a
post-1900 site as an archaeological site.
Consent required from Heritage New Zealand
An authority (consent) from Heritage New Zealand should be obtained prior to the
The results from deposition gauging indicate that there was an environmentally acceptable
level of particulate deposition in the vicinity of the foundry site. No visible emissions or odour
issues were noted during inspections and no complaints were received during the period
under review.
During the year, MASL demonstrated a good level of environmental performance and a high
level of administrative compliance with the resource consents. The Council was required to
record one incident and
The results from deposition gauging indicate that there was an environmentally acceptable
level of particulate deposition in the vicinity of the foundry site. No visible emissions or odour
issues were noted during inspections and no complaints were received during the period
under review.
During the year, MASL demonstrated a good level of environmental performance and a high
level of administrative compliance with the resource consents. The Council was required to
record one incident and
latest trends for ecological health and the physical and
chemical state of our rivers and streams show most
measures are improving or not changing significantly,
and are again the best since measurements began.
This is no accident. The Taranaki community continues
to invest heavily in measures that protect and enhance
the region’s waterways. The benefits are now becoming
more apparent and the Council remains firmly focused
on working with the Taranaki community to
receiving waters, and three air quality surveys. NPDC also
collected seven leachate samples and two under-liner drainage samples for physicochemical
analysis.
At inspection issues were found in regards to site management, and although most of them
were resolved and none resulted in significant off site effects, a number of issues were
recurrent, or remained unresolved at the end of the monitoring period.
Groundwater and under liner drainage sampling indicated that there is no significant