Annual report 2006-2007 - Taranaki Regional Council

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8.6.5 Alterations to monitoring programmes for 2007-2008 86 In designing and implementing the monitoring programmes for air/water discharges in the region, the Taranaki Regional Council has taken into account the extent of information made available by previous authorities, its relevance under the Resource Management Act, the obligations of the Act in terms of monitoring emissions/discharges and effects, and subsequently reporting to the regional community, the scope of assessments required at the time of renewal of permits, and the need to maintain a sound understanding of industrial processes within Taranaki emitting to the atmosphere/discharging to the environment. In the case of Fletcher Concrete & Infrastructure Limited, the programme for 2006- 2007 was unchanged from that for 2005-2006. It is now proposed that for 2007-2008, a similar level of monitoring is maintained. A recommendation to this effect is attached to this report. 8.6.6 Exercise of optional review of consent There are no consents held by the Company that allow for an optional review of consent in June 2008. 8.7 Recommendations 1. THAT monitoring of discharges from Fletcher Concrete & Infrastructure Limited in the 2007-2008 year continue at the same level as in 2006-2007.
87 9. Ballance Agri-Nutrients Limited 9.1 Process description Ballance Agri-Nutrients Limited operates a fully enclosed fertiliser storage facility on Monmouth Road, near the corner with State Highway 3, just north of Stratford. Ballance Agri-Nutrients Limited is a major New Zealand manufacturer and distributor of fertiliser products, providing millions of tonnes of product to the agricultural sector nationally each year. Since 1998, Ballance Agri-Nutrients Limited has expanded its activities into the Taranaki region, establishing distribution facilities at Bell Block, Pungarehu and Kapuni. The facility in Stratford was constructed in 2004, and operations began shortly afterward. The activities on site include the receiving of bulk products into the store by road transport, which dump the product directly into the bulk products bins within the building. All products are therefore received and despatched from within the confines of the building. Clean stormwater from the site, such as that sourced from the roofs, is directed to a roadside drain. Stormwater from the yard areas, which has the potential to contain some nutrients, is directed to a concrete sump that retains any solid material that is washed from the yard. Water flows from this sump to a large stormwater retention pond north of the yard. Effluent in this pond soaks away to ground, with nutrients such as ammonia and phosphate either evaporating or being taken up by plant life within and around the edges of the pond. More mobile nutrients such as potassium and sulphate leave the pond with the stormwater. At times of significant rainfall, there is the potential for effluent to flow in to an unnamed tributary of the Kahouri Stream, herein referred to as the ‘abattoir tributary’. This discharge would enter this tributary downstream of the abattoir wastewater discharge. 9.2 Resource consents 9.2.1 Water discharge permit Section 15(1)(a) and (b) of the Resource Management Act stipulates that no person may discharge any contaminant into water, or onto or into land in circumstances which may result in that contaminant (or any other contaminant emanating as a result of natural processes from that contaminant) entering water unless the activity is expressly allowed for by a resource consent or a rule in a regional plan, or by national regulations. Ballance Agri-Nutrients Limited holds discharge permit 6217 to cover the discharge of stormwater from a fertiliser storage and distribution facility onto and into land and into an unnamed tributary of the Kahouri Stream. This permit was issued by the Taranaki Regional Council on 20 November 2003 under Section 87(e) of the Resource Management Act. It is due to expire on 1 June 2022. Special conditions 1, 2, 5, 6 and 7 define operational requirements including adopting the best practicable option and allowable volume. Special conditions 3 and 4 define the maximum levels of total recoverable hydrocarbons and suspended solids that are to be contained in the discharge, and
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Kahouri Stream Monitoring Programme
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Six complaints, which were logged a
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ii 2.7 Recommendations 37 3. Tarana
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iv 6.6.4 Recommendations from the 2
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vi List of tables Table 1 Resource
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Figure 6 Biological oxygen demand (
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Section 11 presents recommendations
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2. Taranaki Abattoir Co (1992) Limi
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10 Waste liquor and floor washings
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2.2.2 Water discharge permit 12 Sec
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24 March 2005, under Section 87(e)
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Dissolved oxygen (g/m 3 ) 35 30 25
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Dissolved Reactive Phosphorus (g/m3
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26 Biological survey The Council’
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SQMCIs Value 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 A C E
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2.6 Discussion 2.6.1 Discussion of
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To Job Manager, B Jansma From Scien
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Figure 1 Biomonitoring sites in the
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mayflies, elmid beetles, Archichaul
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