policy statements, plans and strategies and convene as a
Hearing Committee as and when required for the hearing of submissions.
Monitor plan and policy implementation.
Develop biosecurity policy.
Advocate, as appropriate, for the Taranaki region.
Other policy initiatives.
Endorse submissions prepared in response to the policy initiatives of organisations.
Membership of Policy and Planning Committee
Councillor C L Littlewood (Chairperson) Councillor N W Walker (Deputy
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Policy and Planning Committee
Tuesday 11 June 2019
10.30am
Taranaki Regional Council, Stratford
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Agenda for the meeting of the Policy and Planning Committee to be held in the
Taranaki Regional Council chambers, 47 Cloten Road, Stratford, on Tuesday 11
June 2019 commencing at 10.30am.
Members Councillor N W Walker (Committee Chairperson)
Councillor M P Joyce
Councillor C L Littlewood (via Zoom)
Councillor D H McIntyre
sediment from these activities.
Resource consents
OMV holds 13 resource consents the details of which are summarised in the table below. Summaries of the
conditions attached to each permit are set out in Section 3 of this report.
A summary of the various consent types issued by the Council is included in Appendix I, as are copies of all
permits held by OMV during the period under review.
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Table 1 Resource consents related to the Pohokura Production Station
consent breeches, by three different consent holders, recorded during the monitoring
period. Enforcement action was taken following all of these breeches. Consent holders continuing to
investigate the source of suspended sediment in the catchment so they can implement appropriate
mitigation measures. There was also one breach of an air quality consent condition which was also followed
up with enforcement action.
In addition to the elevated levels of suspended sediment noted in some stormwater
During the monitoring period, the Company generally demonstrated a high level of environmental
performance with the exception of consent 7595-1.3. As discussed in the section 3.1 hydrocarbon
contaminated stormwater from several bunds had been discharged prior to the inspection on 31 May 2023.
It’s unclear whether the discharge was to the surrounding soil or to a waterway. If allowed to enter
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waterways hydrocarbons can adversely affect aquatic communities. It’s likely
the year under review included four inspections and four water
samples collected for physicochemical analysis. Water abstraction data required by consent conditions is
telemetered to Council.
Stormwater system inspections showed that discharges from the site complied with consent conditions at
the time. Receiving water inspections and sampling showed that the discharges were not causing any
adverse effects on the Mangahewa Stream at the time of monitoring.
For reference, in the
on Whareroa Road at Hawera, in the Tangahoe, Tawhiti and Tasman catchments. Fonterra
hold resource consents to allow for the abstraction of water from the Tawhiti Stream and
Tangahoe River; the discharge of wastewater back to those two streams; the discharge of
stormwater to unnamed tributaries of the Tawhiti Stream, the Tangahoe River and an
unnamed coastal stream; the discharge of stormwater and sediment to land; the discharge of
dairy factory wastewater to the Tasman Sea; the discharge of
site complied with consent conditions at
the time.
As has been the case in previous surveys, it appears that some factor is having a detrimental impact on the
macroinvertebrate communities of the Mangahewa Stream. Hydrocarbon contamination of sediments was
proposed as a potential cause for this and Todd Energy commissioned an investigation into the
contamination. Initial conclusions are that the contamination is a result of a prior event (rather than current
activities at the site) and
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loads and the likely effect of fencing in Taranaki’ has been
prepared for the Council by Professor RW McDowell, of the Soil and Physical Sciences
department of the faculty of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Lincoln University.
3.2 It was noted that the report validates the Council’s long-standing riparian
management programme whereby waterways that are fenced and planted improve
water quality (reducing pollution and nutrient levels) and go beyond the
recommendations by LAWF and central