Annual report 2006-2007 - Taranaki Regional Council

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Table of contents
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1. Introduction 1
1.1 Compliance monitoring programme reports and the Resource
Management Act 1991 1
1.1.1 Introduction 1
1.1.2 Structure of this report 1
1.1.3 The Resource Management Act (1991) and monitoring 2
1.1.4 Evaluation of environmental performance 2
1.2 Resource consents 3
1.2.1 Other resource consents 4
1.2.1.1 Water permits 4
1.2.1.2 Discharge permits 4
1.2.1.3 Land use consents 4
1.3 Monitoring programme 4
1.3.1 Introduction 4
1.3.2 Programme liaison and management 4
1.3.3 Site inspections 5
1.3.4 Chemical sampling 5
1.3.5 Biomonitoring surveys 5
2. Taranaki Abattoir Co (1992) Limited 8
2.1 Process description 8
2.2 Resource consents 11
2.2.1 Water abstraction permit 11
2.2.2 Water discharge permit 12
2.2.3 Air discharge permit 12
2.2.4 Discharges of wastes to land 13
2.3 Monitoring programme 14
2.3.1 Site inspections 14
2.3.2 Chemical sampling 14
2.3.3 Biomonitoring surveys 15
2.4 Results 15
2.4.1 Inspections 15
2.4.1.1 Routine inspections 15
2.4.1.2 Incident inspections 17
2.4.2 Sampling Results 18
2.4.2.1 Results of discharge monitoring 18
2.4.2.2 Results of receiving environment monitoring 22
2.5 Register of incidents 28
2.6 Discussion 30
2.6.1 Discussion of plant performance 30
2.6.2 Environmental effects of exercise of consents 31
2.6.3 Evaluation of performance 31
2.6.4 Recommendations from the 2005-2006 Annual Report 35
2.6.5 Alterations to monitoring programmes for 2007-2008 36
2.6.6 Exercise of optional review of consent 36