for the year under review included four inspections,
four sets of water samples collected for pesticide analysis, two biological surveys of receiving
waters, and a marine ecology inspection. DAS carried out air emission sampling and
groundwater monitoring through independent consultants and further storm water sampling,
and forwarded the results to the Council for audit and review.
The monitoring showed that DAS has had no significant impact on air quality in the vicinity of
the plant or
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If your day-to-day activities involve the collection,
processing or storage of materials such as oils, solvents,
acids, paints, foodstuffs and other chemicals, please
consider how your activity could potentially pollute the
environment.
What causes pollution?
Poor storage and handling of materials at your site may
be causing some of these common problems:
• Discolouration of, or an oily sheen, on stormwater
run-off
• A messy storage area where lids have been left
reducing the risk and severity of flooding as a result of
severe weather.
The Council has worked alongside landowners to
prepare sustainable land management plans for 840 hill
country farms, covering 67% of hill country land in
private ownership.
Alongside these efforts, the Council also continued to
work with communities and industry across the region
to reduce or eliminate impacts from point-source
discharges, and taking enforcement action when
Section 3 discusses the results, their interpretations, and their significance for the environment.
Section 4 presents 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
performance with the resource consents. Effects from the discharge on the receiving waters continue to be
recorded, with minor or no effects noted beyond the boundary of the permitted mixing zone.
For reference, in the 2016-2017 year, consent holders were found to achieve a high level of environmental
performance and compliance for 74 % of the consents monitored through the Taranaki tailored monitoring
programmes, while for another 21 % of the consents, a good level of environmental performance
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 significance
groundwater
samples, and 6 surface water samples.
This report outlines all of the consents held by the STDC, reports on the baseline monitoring
activities carried out in the 2012-2013 period, and discusses the results.
STDC demonstrated a high level of compliance with its resource consents. No rating is given
for environmental effects as no discharges or in-stream works have yet to occur.
No incidents were recorded by Council in regards to this site during the period under
review.
This
the monitoring programme in place for the period under
review, and a description of the activities and operations conducted at SDC landfill
sites.
Each of the closed landfills is then discussed in a separate section (Sections 2 to 4).
In each subsection 1 (e.g. Section 2.1) there is a general description of the landfilled
site and its discharges, an aerial photograph or map showing the location of the
former landfill, and an outline of the matters covered by the water discharge permit.
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The Resource Management Act (1991) and monitoring 1.1.3
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 effects;
unnamed
tributary of the Waiau Stream. Samples of hydraulic fracturing fluids, and fluids returning to the wellhead
post-fracturing, were also obtained for physicochemical analysis in order to characterise the discharges and
to determine compliance with consent conditions.
The monitoring carried out by the Council indicates that the hydraulic fracturing activities undertaken by
GPL had no significant adverse effects on local groundwater or surface water resources. There were no
unauthorised