receiving waters and odour surveys. In
addition the Council also undertook continuous monitoring in the Inaha Stream and its tributaries relating
to temperature and flow.
TBP have also demonstrated a high level of commitment in regard to addressing environmental matters
related to their operation, with various mitigation measures either planned or underway.
Some minor performance non-compliances occurred including over abstraction of surface water on one
occasion and a drop in dissolved
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Policy Statement for Taranaki (RPS) (Taranaki Regional Council, June 2009)
identifies the management of wastes as a significant resource management issue in the
region. Waste management (including minimisation, and the recovery of wastes for
recycling, reprocessing, or reuse, and the disposal of residual wastes) engages a large
number of parties (local authorities, waste generators, waste contractors, and so on). The
Waste Minimisation Act (2008) requires territorial authorities to undertake an
For the two-year period covered by this report, no long-term or significant effects were noted
on the Kaupokonui Stream as a result of the stormwater discharges from the northern and
stormwater outfalls, Inhalable Grade Lactose plant, and stormwater detention pond, although
sewage fungus was observed in the stream on two of four occasions, associated with excessive
biochemical oxygen demand in the discharge, in breach of consents. Sample results were
generally within those prescribed by
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Photo 5 Contrasting habitat between the exposed Waihi site (left) and stable Manihi site (right) 30
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1 Introduction
State of the environment monitoring
The Resource Management Act 1991 (RMA) established new requirements for local authorities to undertake
environmental monitoring. Section 35 of the RMA requires local authorities to monitor, among other things,
the state of the environment of their region or district, to the extent that is
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) ecosystems, including effects on plants, animals, or habitats, whether aquatic or
terrestrial;
(d)
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
team, as the weather conditions
meant the demand for irrigation was not high, with irrigation starting in November or December for many.
The Council carried out compliance monitoring inspections at 67 sites during the 2016-2017 irrigation
season, with 100% of all of the active consents being visited. The inspections included visual checks of the
intake structures, screens, staff gauges, fencing around the pump sheds, downloading of data and stream
gaugings.
For the summer irrigation period,
kg N/ha, with six over 400 kg
N/ha and five over 500 kg N/ha. The largest combined application in this period was 587 kg
N/ha, on paddock 40.
Groundwater nitrate concentrations in some of the wastewater specific groundwater
monitoring wells remained high in this monitoring period, namely wells GND1346, 1347, 1348
and 2226. These wells held concentrations close to or above 60 g/m3 N. This indicated that
these locations are not capable of managing this level of application of wastewater
largely met the requirements of their resource consents. They have also demonstrated a high level of
commitment in regard to addressing environmental matters related to their operation, with various
mitigation measures either planned or underway.
The contamination of groundwater as a result of TBP’s activities has been reported on in previous years.
During this monitoring period it was evident that some of the effects of this contamination have persisted
and some further contamination has