Land & farming

These documents set out the Council's guidelines for the design, construction and maintenance of an effective spray irrigation system for dairy shed wastes.

• Design, construction and maintenance guidelines for the spray irrigation of dairy shed waste - contents & introduction (490 KB pdf)
• Consents, systems & collecting & receiving (1.6 MB pdf)
• Diagrams, maintenance, other options & monitoring (472 KB pdf)

This booklet sets out the Council's guidelines for the design, construction and maintenance of an effective oxidation pond system for dairy shed wastes.

• Design, construction and maintenance guidelines for oxidation pond treatment of dairy shed and feedpad wastes - contents & introduction (537 KB pdf)
• System & design (1.2 MB pdf)
• Construction (1.2 MB pdf)

These guides provide information on restoring and enhancing the indigenous vegetation cover which as been lost from Taranaki. They help to enable landowners, community groups and practitioners to restore ecosystems by planting native species.

• Restoration planting guide - Matemateaonga ecological district (2 MB pdf)
• Ecological districts in Taranaki (188 KB jpg)

These fact sheets were prepared by Sally Gaw and Graham McBride for Tasman District Council through a Foundation for Research Science and Technology Envirolink grant. Sally is a lecturer in environmental chemistry at the University of Canterbury. She has 10 years' experience in managing contaminated land and was a member of the Ministry for the Environment’s Pesticide Advisory Group. Graham is a farmer with national and international experience with managing legacy chemicals from agriculture. He initiated research into sheep dips in New Zealand.

• Fact sheet 1: Sheep dips in NZ (2.9 MB pdf)
• Fact sheet 2: Arsenic (1.3 MB pdf)
• Fact sheet 3: Organochloride pesticides (1.8 MB pdf)
• Fact sheet 4: Checklist (2.1 MB pdf)