Councillor B K Raine
Councillor C S Williamson
Councillor D L Lean (ex officio)
Councillor D N MacLeod (ex officio)
Representative Ms E Bailey (Iwi Representative)
Members Councillor G Boyde (Stratford District Council)
Mr J Hooker (Iwi Representative)
Councillor R Jordan (New Plymouth District Council)
Mr P Muir (Taranaki Federated Farmers)
Councillor P Nixon (South Taranaki District Council)
Mr M Ritai (Iwi Representative)
Apologies
Notification of Late Items
that works needed to be undertaken to ensure best
practice is maintained. This included ensuring that chemicals are covered with tarpaulins, especially when
rain is expected, and ensuring that chemicals are stored in a bund if access to another storage area is not
immediately available. Also discussed was the bund itself and the requirement that it must capture and
contain stormwater to ensure that spilled chemicals cannot escape the bund and flow to the ring drain,
skimmer pit and ultimately
Operations and Regulatory Committee Agenda April 2025
Table 3 Summary of monitoring activity for 2021-2022 17
Table 4 Chemical analysis of Colson Road landfill combined site leachate discharge 33
Table 5 Sample results for characterisation of Stage 1&2 and Stage 3 leachate 34
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Table 6 Results of analysis of under liner drainage for the year under review. 37
Table 7 Sample results for the characterisation of the under liner groundwater drainage 42
Table 8 Results of rain event monitoring – discharge and
bacteriological water quality in the latest survey period was lower than
normal in comparison with historical surveys. The total number of samples falling within
the “Alert” or “Action” categories (36% of samples, or 40% if the samples of the Waimoku
are included) across the 16 recognised bathing sites was the highest recorded. However, it
should be noted that the “Action” category is the only category for which swimming is not
recommended. In the 2016-2017 season, 86% of all samples (ie excluding the
Taranaki’s lakes are likely to fall below the “national bottom line”, meaning
they are considered to be degraded and in poor health. Overall, 78% of lakes were
predicted to fail to achieve the bottom line for at least one attribute, with more than 50%
of lakes likely to fail the lake-bottom dissolved oxygen attribute. A predicted 72% failed
chlorophyll-a (a measurement of algae), while 54% failed for total phosphorus and 61%
for total nitrogen.
7. There are a number of further steps required to
from each
of the subcommittees and a representative from the
TRC, all with a three-year term.
2 pm: Gordon Bailey is the speaker and will address
the meeting on re-establishing the overseas connections.
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Members’ Garden Visits
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Please bring the usual personal items such as rain
jacket, umbrella etc, a picnic lunch, nibbles to share
and drink of
national
regulations. Methanex currently holds a consent for a flood control structure in the
Waitara River.
Section 14 of the RMA stipulates that no person may take, use, dam or divert any
water, unless the activity is expressly allowed for by a resource consent or a rule in a
regional plan, or it falls within some particular categories set out in Section 14.
Methanex currently holds two abstraction consents for the Waitara River.
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of skimmer pits indicating relatively good
water quality. A drip tray (tarp) had been placed under the mud shaker chutes and this was
collecting/catching a lot of mud and preventing discharges to ground. Both liquid and dry chemicals were
being stored in the onsite metal bund and these were covered by tarps to prevent rain from falling on
product. Appropriate bunding was noted around the rest of the site.
15 October 2018
Kowhai-D wellsite: A new filter sock was being installed within
outfall. Stormwater from the tankage area is pumped over into the process sewers which flow to the
storm pond. The stormwater falling on the non-process areas of the western half of the site (Figure 1) is
directed by “v” ditches running alongside the roads to a dam/pond and then out to the Tasman Sea via the
Manu Stream. Stormwater falling on the eastern side of the site is directed to unnamed tributaries of the
Waihi Stream via outfalls and a small sedimentation pond.
The sludge lagoons