167 Regional Air Quality Plan for Taranaki
Appendix V: Good management practices for intensive poultry
farming
This appendix has been included in the plan for
guidance to the poultry industry, and for general public
information and education purposes. The information
contained in this appendix provides general guidance
on the range of options for preventing or minimising
adverse effects on the environment from emissions
Farmers
On grazed parts of the farm, bush trees
rarely occupy a large percentage of
paddock area. They often remain on parts
where stock don’t graze much, on account
of steep contour or difficult access. So
fencing trees off may make little difference
to the length of time that stock can be
grazed in a paddock. A fence may actually
make grazing management easier,
excluding stock from parts that are difficult
to muster, and concentrating them where
pasture growth is greater, but perhaps not
the Company’s DWI activities were being carried out in
compliance with the conditions of the applicable resource consents. There is no evidence of
any issues 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 at monitored locations. Inspections undertaken during the
monitoring year found sites being operated in a professional manner and
1 Cold Creek is otherwise known as Cold Stream. For the purposes of this report all references to the water body
in question will be using the former, or ‘Cold Creek’.
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Table of contents
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1 Introduction 1
1.1 Compliance monitoring programme reports and the Resource Management Act 1991 1
1.1.1 Introduction 1
1.1.2 Structure of this report 1
1.1.3 The Resource Management Act 1991 and monitoring 1
1.1.4 Evaluation of environmental and
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 landscape, amenity and visual effects;
c. ecosystems, including effects on plants, animals, or habitats, whether aquatic or terrestrial;
d.
plant or on water quality in the Herekawe Stream. No complaint in relation to
the Company’s activities was registered by the Council.
During the year, the Company demonstrated a high level of environmental and
administrative performance.
For reference, in the 2014-2015 year, 75% of consent holders in Taranaki monitored through
tailored compliance monitoring programmes achieved a high level of environmental
performance and compliance with their consents, while another 22% demonstrated a
Kaimiro field, via the K-17 (14,776 m3) and K-10 (1,207m3) injection wells.
The volumes of fluid discharged, and the pressure at which it was injected into the receiving
formations, were within the limits specified in the respective resource consents.
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The information gathered during inspection visits and the data supplied by the consent
holder for Council audit have been used in compiling this report.
The Council did not receive any complaints or register any
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Mathematics and Statistics
Flow measurements
volume
averages
counting invertebrates averages
Estimation
Percentages
Technology
Technological Practice
Measuring flow and turbidity
Conductivity Measurement
Science
The living world - life cycles
- ecosystems
- invertebrate sampling
The physical world - temperature
- measuring flow
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monitoring year, with most
commencing irrigation in November or December and concluding in February. Rainfall recorded at the
Council’s monitoring locations over the summer irrigation period ranged between 55 % and 111% of
historical mean values. A particularly dry November and December lead to a drought being declared in
Taranaki during 23 December 2017. As a result, irrigation water demand was high during the 2017-2018
irrigation season, with a total water use across all exercised irrigation