District Council operates the Inglewood municipal oxidation ponds
treatment system located at Inglewood in the Kurapete catchment.
The New Plymouth District Council holds a renewed resource consent allowing for the
discharge of treated wastewater overflows to the Kurapete Stream, a small tributary of the
Manganui River in the Waitara catchment. Following the successful diversion of all dry
weather wastewater inflows from the ponds’ system to the New Plymouth wastewater
treatment plant (via the
level of environmental
performance.
The Council’s monitoring programme for the year under review included three inspections and the
collection of two wastewater and receiving water samples collected for physicochemical analysis.
The monitoring showed that the wastewater and receiving water samples were well within the consented
limits.
During the year, the Company demonstrated a high level of environmental and administrative performance
with the resource consents.
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South Taranaki District Council
Opunake WWTP
Monitoring Programme
Annual Report
2017-2018
Technical Report 2018-36
Taranaki Regional Council
ISSN: (Online) Private Bag 713
Document: 2091887 (Word) STRATFORD
Document: 2093306 (Pdf) November 2018
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Executive summary
South Taranaki District Council (STDC) operates a municipal wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) located on
South
results of the monitoring
undertaken and assesses the environmental effects of STDC’s activities in relation to the Hawera Wastewater
Treatment Plant (HWWTP).
STDC holds two resource consents for the site which include a total of 26 conditions setting out the
requirements that STDC must satisfy. STDC holds consent 5079-1 for operation of the Hawera oxidation
ponds system, and consent 7520-1 to discharge to an unnamed stream in the event of high rainfall.
During the monitoring period, STDC
carried out by both the Company and the Council. The Company monitors
water abstraction rates, wastewater volume and composition, effluent loadings on irrigation
areas, bio-filter performance and weather conditions. The Council undertakes inspections of
the plants’ site and irrigation and burial areas; water quality and biological monitoring in the
Inaha Stream and its tributaries; and groundwater surveys.
The Council’s annual monitoring programmes for the two years under review together
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South Taranaki District Council
Opunake WWTP
Monitoring Programme
Annual Report
2016-2017
Technical Report 2017-40
Taranaki Regional Council
ISSN: 1178-1467 (Online) Private Bag 713
Document: 1871204 (Word) STRATFORD
Document: 1876987 (Pdf) July 2017
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Executive summary
South Taranaki District Council (STDC) operates a municipal wastewater
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New Plymouth District Council
New Plymouth Wastewater Treatment Plant
Marine Outfall and Sludge Lagoon
Monitoring Programme
Annual Report
2016-2017
Technical Report 2017-80
Taranaki Regional Council
ISSN: 1178-1467 (Online) Private Bag 713
Document: 1917315 (Word) STRATFORD
Document: 1984631 (Pdf) March 2018
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Executive summary
The New Plymouth District Council (NPDC)
emissions into the air at the site.
Two of the consents were granted during the previous review period: one in February 2014 to
take groundwater, the other in January 2015 to discharge emissions to air from burning of
wood waste.
During the monitoring period, Taranaki By-Products Ltd demonstrated generally a good
level of environmental performance.
Monitoring was carried out by both the Council and TBP. TBP monitors water abstraction
rates, wastewater volumes and composition, effluent
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New Plymouth District Council
New Plymouth Wastewater Treatment Plant
Marine Outfall and Sludge Lagoon
Monitoring Programme Annual Report
2014-2015
Technical Report 2015-112
Taranaki Regional Council
ISSN: 1178-1467 (Online) Private Bag 713
Document: 1568551 (Word) STRATFORD
Document: 1659291 (Pdf)
May 2016
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Executive
performance during the period under review. The report also details the results of the monitoring
undertaken and assesses the environmental effects of STDC’s activities in relation to the Hawera Wastewater
Treatment Plant (HWWTP).
STDC holds two resource consents for the site which include a total of 29 conditions setting out the
requirements that STDC must satisfy. STDC holds consent 5079-2 for operation of the HWWTP, and consent
7520-1 to discharge to an unnamed stream in the event of high