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Minutes of the Ordinary Meeting of the
Taranaki Regional Council, held
Taranaki Regional Council Chambers, 47
Cloten Road, Stratford, on Tuesday 7
August 2018 at 10.40am.
Present Councillors D N MacLeod (Chairperson)
M J Cloke
D L Lean (Deputy Chairperson)
C L Littlewood
D H McIntyre
B K Raine
N W Walker
C S Williamson
Attending Messrs B G Chamberlain (Chief Executive)
A D McLay
Mary Gray
42 Pia Rockell
43 Jenny Murphy
44 Emma Parker
45 Julie Lumsden
46 Gillett Troy
47 Simon Raine
48 Keith Wills
49 Geoffrey Hobson
50 Robert Taylor
51 Rachel Eckersley
52 Charl van der Heever
53 Joanne Massey
54 Nigel Cliffe
55 Jean Mallinson
56 Dr Keith and Mrs Shirley Blayney
57 Marcon Wood
58 Carol Franklyn
59 Jocelyn Kruitbosch
60 Graham Cochrane
61 Wilfred Ivan Cudlipp
62 Gordon Sole
63 Michael Bonner
64 Ben Bonner
65 Laura Elizabeth
66 Alison Rumball
67 Peter
Nitrogen also enters the Irrigation Area with rain and clover fixation.
4.4 Total volume of irrigation liquid irrigated onto the Irrigation Blocks
The irrigation liquid is pumped from the pond to the irrigator through a buried pipeline. The pumping flow rate
was measured by BTW company in 2015 as 30 m3/hr1.
1 Uruti Composting Facility Management Plan, BTW Company Limited, 2015. (provided as Appendix J of the Application for
Consent Renewal)
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Irrigation Block
stream gaugings.
The monitoring indicated that the operation of the sluicing of the weir has improved, with flows not falling
below 151 L/s. There was one unauthorised incident recording non-compliance in respect to the water take
consent between 30 July and 5 August 2022. Due to a lightning strike which destroyed the scheme’s
electronics, OWSL were required to take water in manual operation mode, which resulted in a breach of
abstraction rate until OWSL could fine-tune the process. The
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These records indicate that the treated effluent discharge into the Waiongana Stream was well managed on
all occasions with all discharging occurring when stream flow was above 5m3/s.
The Waiongana Stream hydrology displays a natural rapid rise and fall (typical of Taranaki ring plain
streams), which allows for a limited window of opportunity when treated wastewater can be discharged
above the minimum consent limit. The consent holder has access to the Council web site, which
Taranaki climate hazards & extremes - high winds & tornadoes (NIWA, 2007).
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
5350-1 To dam and divert water
5351-1
To erect, place and maintain structures in the beds of the
unnamed tributaries
The permits are discussed further in sections 1.3.1 to 1.3.5 below, with copies attached
to this report in Appendix 1.
1.3.1 Water permit
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
Stratford DC oxidation ponds consent monitoring report - Taranaki Regional Council.
Stratford DC oxidation ponds consent monitoring report - Taranaki Regional Council.