vermicasts for fertiliser) at
two sites: Waitara Road in the Waiongana catchment and Pennington Road, in the Waitara
catchment. RNZ also operates a composting and vermiculture operation at Mokau Road,
Uruti, in the Mimi catchment.
This report for the period July 2012-June 2013 describes the monitoring programme
implemented by the Taranaki Regional Council to assess the Company’s environmental
performance during the period under review, and the results and environmental effects of
the Company’s
are embedded in the Council’s Regional Freshwater Plan for Taranaki, which sets out conditions and standards that must be met by those who take water from and/or discharge to rivers and streams. Note: This Plan is currently under review. Landowners are advised to contact the Council before undertaking developments involving any aspect of fresh water or waterways. Taranaki has a lot of waterways: 286 main river catchments and 530 named rivers. The two largest rivers - the Waitara and Patea - drain
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Waitara Waste Water Treatment Plant
Monitoring Programme Report
January 2012–December 2013
Technical Report 2013–86
ISSN: 0114-8184 (Print) Taranaki Regional Council
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Executive summary
The New
located on Manganui Road, in the Waitara River
catchment. This site is called Kowhai-D wellsite. This report for the period July 2016 to June 2018 describes
the monitoring programme implemented by the Taranaki Regional Council (the Council) to assess the
Company’s environmental and consent compliance performance during the period under review. The report
also details the results of the monitoring undertaken and assesses the environmental effects of the
Company’s activities.
The Company holds
highway
programme accounts for a large proportion of the total expenditure in
the region, this has significantly lowered the regional percentage of
approved allocation spent.
It should be noted that whereas most maintenance and other ‘business
as usual’ activities like public transport are relatively constant throughout
the period of the Plan, large improvement activities such as those on SH3
at Mt Messenger or from Waitara to Bell Block are not.
The following provides …
AMY000103 on 20 March 2020 is due to the oxidation of
the ammoniacal nitrogen in the landfill tributary. However, it is noted that although the nitrate/nitrite
nitrogen concentration had increased, the total nitrogen in the waterbody had decreased significantly
compared to the upstream value.
Figure 4 shows the ammoniacal nitrogen results for the stormwater/leachate pond (RTP002005) and the
landfill tributary below the culvert outlet (AWY000103). Historically the concentration is much lower in …
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The highest enterococci count recorded during the 2015-2016 monitoring year (110
cfu/100 ml) remained within surveillance mode (<140 cfu/100 ml) and was recorded
on 23 February 2016. The count was associated with lower conductivity (4240 mS/m,
Table 11) indicating freshwater
environment officers carried out roadside inspections across New Plymouth, Oākura, Ōkato and Waitara in November, looking for the 11 plants in the Regional Pest Management Plan that landowners have an obligation to control. Following this, about 250 letters were sent out letting landowners know there was a pest plant on their property, how to identify it and that they must control it. Council Environment Services Manager Steve Ellis says the overwhelming majority were for Kahili ginger, with old man’s
staff gauge at
Kahouri Stream was at 0.580 m. No irrigation or discharge to the river was occurring at the time of the
inspection. Concreted surfaces were clean and tidy. No emissions or odour were emanating from the plant.
The worm farm was well grassed and not generating any odour. Several recent deposits of paunch were
evident with old deposited paunch establishing grass. The upper pond had large amounts of tallow and did
not look like it had been reaching the lip of the pond. The lower pond
added in the 2015-2016 year, in the
upper Waitara River and in the lower Whenuakura River, because of the need for the Council put in place
adequate representative monitoring of the region’s proposed Freshwater Management Units (as required by
the National Policy Statement on Fresh Water).
The Hangatahua (Stony) River was selected as a river with high conservation value and the Maketawa
Stream was selected for its regionally important recreational value. The Waitara, Manganui, Patea,