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Outdoor nature bingo
Hollard Gardens - 10am to 11.30am
Get your tamariki outdoors these school holidays.
Grab their gumboots and explore the magic of Hollard
Gardens with nature bingo. Rain or shine - puddle
jumping optional. Recommended for children 5–10 yrs
and must be accompanied by an adult.
Outdoor
wide, and is shown in Figure 2.
Patea Beach is an elevated site which for most of the time is dry. Rain that does fall on the site drains away
at a very rapid rate. The site does not suffer from flooding from rain or tidal action, due to its elevation.
Monitoring over the past four years noted no discharge of leachate or liquids from the base of the dune as
a result of the discharge.
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Figure 1 Regional map showing the location of the Patea green waste site
approval and the environmental effects are minor, a decision on the application will be made by the Council’s Director-Resource Management. It’s important to note that although most applications fall into this ‘non-notified’ category, hundreds of parties are consulted by resource consent applicants in Taranaki each year. If the effects are more than minor or an affected party does not give written approval, the application will have to be notified. People may then make submissions on the application.
figure of 43mm of
rainfall per hour will be utilised. This is a very conservative figure as values for the top 30 rain
occurrences range from 8.0 to 15mm with the average being 9.4mm (refer Table 2).
Runoff of the falling rain will be influenced by the site’s runoff coefficient. This has been calculated
to be 0.25 as per MBIE Verification Method E1/VM1 (1 January 2017). Remediation (NZ) Ltd
considers this coefficient to be a conservative runoff coefficient as the composting
figure
of 43mm of rainfall per hour will be utilised. This is a very conservative figure as values for the top 30
rain occurrences range from 8.0 to 15mm with the average being 9.4mm (refer Table 2).
Runoff of the falling rain will be influenced by the site’s runoff coefficient. This has been calculated
to be 0.25 as per MBIE Verification Method E1/VM1 (1 January 2017). Remediation (NZ) Ltd
considers this coefficient to be a conservative runoff coefficient as the composting
million tonnes of soil.
On residential properties nearest to the Dow plant, soil dioxin concentrations were typically in the
range 5 to 15 ng/kg of soil, falling to a range of 1 to 5 ng/kg further out. One sample had a
concentration of 27 ng/kg. There was 92 ng/kg measured at a non-residential site, on the west-
facing slope of Mount Moturoa Domain.
Generally there was little difference between soil dioxin levels in lawn areas compared with
gardens on the same property.
undertaken on 24 October 2018 47
Table 10 Results of metal analysis undertaken on 6 May 2019 48
Table 11 Results of rain event monitoring – discharge and Puremu Stream samples, 18 September
2018 51
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Table 12 Results of rain event monitoring - Manganaha Stream, 18 September 2018 51
Table 13 Biomonitoring sites in the Puremu and Manganaha Streams related to the Colson Road
landfill 52
Table 14 Chemical analysis of Colson Road landfill groundwater sampled
out during fine weather following a period of heavy rain throughout the
catchment. The influent screen was operating and wastes were fully contained. The main pond was dark
green with a slightly turbid appearance. No odours were noted. Approximately 50 birds were present, the
majority of which were mallard and teal ducks.
Both wetland pond levels were normal. These were green/brown in colour and slightly turbid. The wetland
sump pump was operating at the time of inspection. No surface
Again odour was
very minimal. No visual environmental impacts downstream of the discharge point to the Tawhiti Stream
observed at any time during the financial year.
Effluent collection points within piggery viewed during all inspections. Found to be in good condition, with
no signs of spills or overflows even after heavy prolonged rain periods. Bunding functioning well. During the
8th May inspection a burst underground effluent pipe between the southern sheds was brought to the
attention