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Port Taranaki Limited
Maintenance Dredging
Monitoring Report
2009 – 2014
Technical Report 2014-113
ISSN: 1178-1467 (Online) Taranaki Regional Council
Document: 1476713 (Word) Private Bag 713
Document: 1500172 (Pdf) STRATFORD
June 2015
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Executive summary
Port Taranaki Limited (the Company) is the commercial operator of the port located
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Welcome to 2014
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Pukeiti is a wonderful asset for our region and this issue of SITE highlights the many activities in our
new study unit. As mentioned in the editorial, we trialed many of the activities last year and have
fine-tuned some to better suit school groups. Additional
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BEFORE HEARING COMMISSIONERS Consent No: 5262-3.0
APPOINTED BY TARANAKI REGIONAL COUNCIL
IN THE MATTER of the Resource
Management Act 1991
(“Act”)
AND
IN THE MATTER an application for resource
consent discharge
emissions into the air from
a free-range poultry
farming operation
BETWEEN Airport Farm Trustee
Limited
Applicant
AND Taranaki Regional
Council
Consent Authority
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YOU MUST
Give the Taranaki Regional Council 20 to 60 days’ notice of activities involving afforestation,
earthworks, river crossings, quarrying and harvesting. Do this online by going to
www.trc.govt.nz/informcouncil
Have earthworks management plans, quarry erosion and sediment management plans and
harvest plans in place 20 working days before the activity begins.
Ensure resource consents are in place (if required) before works
reviewed by ESR. All ESR comments and proposed
emendations have been incorporated in the final version. The Taranaki Regional Council
remains responsible for the content of this report.
It should be understood that not all field operators in Taranaki use radioactive tracers, and
not all uses of radioactive tracers relate to fracturing. Both chemical and radioactive tracers
can be an integral part of a conventional well drilling operation, with a range of applications
that encompass, for
information in response to a Land Information
Memorandum request.
In a situation where contaminants are discharging from a dip
area, the Regional Council has a responsibility under section
15 of the Resource Management Act to ensure that there is
no significant adverse effect. If there is, enforcement action
may follow in the form of an infringement notice, abatement
notice (asking you to stop the discharge) or in a worst case
scenario, prosecution. The remediation of an old sheep dip may
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I know the recent drought has been bad news
for many people but on the positive side, the
fine weather meant that the majority of last
term’s school field trips went ahead as planned.
Term one was extremely busy with school visits
and field trips virtually every day
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I trust you all enjoyed your well earned break
and have returned to school totally refreshed
and looking forward to another rewarding year.
Thank you to the hundreds of teachers who
involved the Council in their programmes last
year. Certainly
Radioactive Substances Act 1965.
1.2 CONSENTS AND CONSULTATION
1.2.1 Consents
The Uruti remediation site comes under the jurisdiction of local government:
• Taranaki Regional Council (TRC); and
Consents granted for the Uruti are listed in the following table;
Table 1: Consent Details
Consent # Detail Authority
5838-2 TRC
To discharge treated stormwater and leachate, including
organic material, from composting operations onto and into
land and into an unnamed
(irrigation, fertiliser and improved
pastures) has increased the agronomic value of the land from about $3-
5000/ha to $30-40,000/ha.
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BRIEF
1. The Taranaki Regional Council (TRC) has consented several oil
exploration companies to dispose of ‘drilling muds’ at several sites on
coastal sands around the region.
2. The drilling muds are initially stored at the sites and, after the sand dunes
have been levelled, this material is