operates a petrochemical production station and
adjacent wellsite, located on Lower Otaraoa Road at Motunui in the Waipapa and Manu
catchments. This report for the period July 2013 – June 2014 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 activities.
The Company holds a total of 15 resource consents, which include a total
2.1.1 Process description
The purpose of the plant is to produce asphalt for use on roads and driveways etc.
A permanent drum mix plant has replaced the batch plant and mobile plant that
were formerly in use at the site.
The asphalt production is achieved by the following processes. The plant is a
parallel-flow drum mix plant consisting of a rotary drum [which is used to both
dry and heat the aggregate and to mix the hot aggregate with bitumen], a dual
fuel burner and integral
consideration to the impacts of the Wind
Farm in the region and the forthcoming road improvements to Mt Messenger?
Discussion round the table on the impacts of these two activities.
Suggested that Waka Kotahi to provide an update to the next LAG meeting.
Action Suzy to follow this idea up with Craig Campbell-Smart.
Discussion on whether there was legislation as to Police having to “Chair” the RARAG group.
Action Suzy to look into this.
Noted that Suzy has found out “There is no specific legislative
Victoria Road at Stratford, in the
Patea catchment. The landfill was closed to the public on 11 March 2002, and to commercial disposers on
23 March 2002. The site has more recently been used to dewater and dispose of oxidation pond sludge
from the adjacent municipal wastewater treatment plant. This activity ceased in early 2006, and the landfill
was recapped and reinstated. The only external material now accepted at the landfill is soil from a local
sawmill site remediation project. This activity
Table 34 Summary of performance for Consent 9307-1 73
Table 35 Summary of performance for Consent 9308-1 73
Table 36 Summary of performance for Consents 9309-1 to 9322-1 74
Table 37 Summary of performance for Consent 9576-1 74
List of figures
Figure 1 Physico-chemical and biological sampling sites, discharge
sites and abstraction site 21
Figure 2 Patea River flow at Skinner Road (m3/s), July 2014 – June
2015 23
Figure 3 Ahuroa B wellsite and gas storage facilities
71
4.2.10.2 Comparison with previous summers’ surveys 71
4.2.10.3 Cyanobacteria 73
Timaru Stream at Weld Road (near mouth) 74 4.2.11
4.2.11.1 Comparison with guidelines 77
4.2.11.3 Comparison with previous summers’ surveys 78
4.2.11.4 Benthic cyanobacteria 79
Waimoku Stream at Oakura beach 79 4.2.12
4.2.12.1 Compliance with guidelines 82
4.2.12.2 Comparison with previous summers’ surveys 82
Oakura River below SH45 84 4.2.13
4.2.13.1 Comparison with guidelines 86
4.2.13.2
previous summers’ surveys 54
4.2.8.3 Benthic cyanobacteria 55
Kaupokonui River at Beach Domain 56 4.2.9
4.2.9.1 Comparison with guidelines 60
4.2.9.2 Comparison with previous summers’ surveys 60
4.2.9.3 Benthic cyanobacteria 62
Lake Opunake 63 4.2.10
4.2.10.1 Comparison with guidelines 65
4.2.10.2 Comparison with previous summers’ surveys 65
4.2.10.3 Cyanobacteria 66
Timaru Stream at Weld Road (near mouth) 67 4.2.11
4.2.11.1 Comparison with guidelines 71
4.2.11.2 Comparison with
Udder Trust Water - Animal Waste Dairy Farm
R2/1661-4.0 Esternwest Farms Limited Water - Animal Waste Dairy Farm
R2/10704-1.0 New Plymouth District Council Land - stormwater Building Construction/Drainage/Flood Control
R2/10693-1.0 Waitomo Energy Limited Land - Industry Service Station
R2/7905-1.1 Westside New Zealand Limited Land - Industry Hydrocarbon Exploration
R2/7559-1.4 Colin David Boyd Land - Land Farming Hydrocarbon Exploration Servicing Facilities
R2/7591-1.2 Surrey Road
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3.2 Location of activity (Including: Street/road name, number, and locality)
South Road (SH45) Opunake
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3.3 Map Co-ordinates at point of works (either Longitude/Latitude or NZTM):
________________________ Longitude ________________________ Latitude OR
1674548 E -5632144 N (NZTM)
3.4 Legal description of property at site of activity (refer to land
Jockey Club; Gully Rock
Limited; Powerco Limited; Matador Meats; Toll NZ Consolidated Ltd; Osfl o
Spreading Industries Limited; Dow AgroSciences (NZ) Limited; Shaun Pattinson;
Oaonui Water Supply; Vid Pro Services Ltd; Taranaki Drum and Pallet Recycling;
South Road Quarries; Tyco Flow Maintenance; The New Zealand Transport
Agency; Downer EDi Works Limited; Auto Lodge Motor Inn; Plymouth Hotel;
Falcon Engineering Ltd; Brian Crawford Contracting Limited;