discharge emissions into the air at the plant
site.
During the monitoring period, Riverlands demonstrated an overall high level of
environmental performance.
Monitoring is carried out by both Riverlands and the Council. Riverlands monitors water
abstraction rate, effluent flow rate and composition, receiving water quality, odour at the plant
boundaries, and effluent loadings, soil, and herbage for irrigation areas. The Council
undertakes inspections of the plant site and irrigation areas;
silty-clay
. Due to high rates of irrigation loading, shallow groundwater beneath the Uruti Composting
Facility Site are moderately impacted with Chloride contamination
. Site layout, hydrogeological interactions, soil types and rainfall also influence the level of
Chlorides observed in the soil, groundwater resources and the Haehanga Stream
environment
. Offsite impacts have not been quantified and where not part of the scope of this report
The Uruti Composting Facility Management Plan was
continuous measurement of flow rate and temperature.
Silver Fern Farms Ltd (meat processing plant) demonstrated an overall high level of environmental
performance.
The Company holds six resource consents, to allow it to maintain a dam in and to take from the Tawhiti
Stream; to discharge to the stream and to land; and to discharge emissions into the air.
During the period under review, there were no incidents reported in relation to activities at the site.
Abstraction volumes complied
refinement of methods
and considered responsible resource utilisation, to move closer to achieving sustainable development of the
region’s resources.
1.1.4 Evaluation of environmental and administrative performance
Besides discussing the various details of the performance and extent of compliance by the Company, this
report also assigns them a rating for their environmental and administrative performance during the period
under review.
Environmental performance is concerned with actual or
1.1.4 Evaluation of environmental and administrative performance
Besides discussing the various details of the performance and extent of compliance by MASL, this report
also assigns them a rating for their environmental and administrative performance during the period under
review.
Environmental performance is concerned with actual or likely effects on the receiving environment from the
activities during the monitoring year. Administrative performance is concerned with MASL’s approach to …
accordance with State of the
Environment monitoring requirements. The 2013-2014 programme continued to incorporate
these changes. A later consultant’s report (in 2000) re-confirmed trends (using up-dated
methodology) that the lake was phosphorus limited and remained mesotrophic. Further trend
reporting for the period 1990-2006 was provided as a component of the consents renewal
process and suggested that while there has been a very slow rate of increase in trophic level,
the lake would be
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3.4 Legal description of property at site of activity (refer to land title or rates notice)
Lot1 SS6265 Sib Sec 47 Borough of Opunake Blk IX Opunake SD
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3.5 Assessment/Valuation number of property (refer to land title or rates notice)
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4 Location
irrigation areas and groundwater monitoring points 5
Figure 3 Location of SFF Waitotara meat processing plant showing
irrigation areas and groundwater monitoring points 6
Figure 4 Average daily abstraction rate October 2012 - September
2014 13
Figure 5 Conductivity, ammonia and nitrate at groundwater
monitoring points, 1994-2014 18
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1. Introduction
1.1 Compliance monitoring programme reports and the Resource
Management Act 1991
1.1.1
and
liner installation construction details for new ponds. For existing ponds, we provide
estimated leak rates and comments on leak detection monitoring and maintenance (see
Section 4).
• Environmental considerations for siting new ponds (see Section 5).
1.2 Scope of work
We have carried out the following:
• Desk top review of available geological information including:
- Townsend et al., 2008. Geology of Taranaki Area. Institute of Geological and Nuclear
experienced the intensification seen in some other regions. For
example, the total number of milking dairy cattle in 1998/1999 was 481,034 (nearly 15% of the
nation’s milking herd) and by 2013/2014 it was still only 493,361 (10% of the national herd). Likewise,
stocking rates have hardly changed, from an average of 2.8 cows per hectare in 1998/1999 to 2.85
cows per hectare in 2013/2014. These are lower stocking rates than the national average. The
pressures on land use are not