from the inlet. The discharge from the pond emerges from a pipe to fall over a
small waterfall. At the base of the waterfall the discharged water runs down a natural cobbled channel
beneath native riparian vegetation for approximately 10 metres before entering the Patea River,
downstream of the intake weir.
1.2.2 Midhirst water supply
The Midhirst community water treatment plant was originally the water treatment plant for the former
Midhirst dairy factory. Water is pumped from the Te Popo
air permit falls under Rule 52 of the Regional
Air Quality Plan for Taranaki (RAQP), which applies to:
Discharges of contaminants to air from intensive poultry farming when more than
30,000 poultry are kept at any one time, and where the poultry farm is an existing
operation and a new consent is being applied for to replace or renew an existing consent.
5. The rule prescribes the activity as restricted discretionary, and has one entry
standard, which is:
the nature and scale of
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Councillor C S Williamson
Councillor D N MacLeod (ex officio)
Councillor D L Lean (ex officio)
Representative Ms E Bailey (Iwi Representative)
Members Mr J Hooker (Iwi Representative)
Mr M Ritai (Iwi Representative)
Councillor P Nixon (South Taranaki District Council)
Councillor R Jordan (New Plymouth District Council)
Councillor G Boyde (Stratford District Council)
Councillor C Coxhead (South Taranaki District Council)
Mr P Muir (Taranaki Federated
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and
untreated waste oil.
The RMA also provides for ‘non-complying activities’. Non-
complying activities are activities that are not prohibited
but which otherwise contravene or fall outside the scope
of a rule in the Plan (and for which the Council has the
discretion to grant or decline the consent application).
However, there are no regional rules in the RAQP for
Taranaki that allow for non-complying activities.
Under the RAQP all major industrial, trade and
falls within some particular
categories set out in Section 14. Permits authorising the abstraction of water are issued by the Council
under Section 87(d) of the RMA.
Water discharge permits
Section 15(1)(a) of the RMA stipulates that no person may discharge any contaminant into water, unless the
activity is expressly allowed for by a resource consent or a rule in a regional plan, or by national regulations.
Permits authorising discharges to water are issued by the Council under Section
Nova Junction Road Power Plant Annual Report 2022-2023
off site prior to the
wash water then being directed to the stormwater system.
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Figure 1 Aerial location map of Hickman JD 1997 Family Trust
1.3 Resource consents
1.3.1 Water discharge permit
Section 14 of the RMA stipulates that no person may take, use, dam or divert any water, unless the activity is
expressly allowed for by a resource consent or a rule in a regional plan, or it falls within some particular
categories set out in Section 14.
The
grease/oil/hydrocarbons are
collected and removed off site prior to the wash water then being directed to the
stormwater system.
Figure 1 Aerial location map of Hickman JD 1997 Family Trust
1.3 Resource consents
1.3.1 Water discharge permit
Section 14 of the RMA stipulates that no person may take, use, dam or divert any
water, unless the activity is expressly allowed for by a resource consent or a rule in a
regional plan, or it falls within some particular categories set out in Section
Section 14 of the RMA stipulates that no person may take, use, dam or divert any
water, unless the activity is expressly allowed for by a resource consent or a rule in a
regional plan, or it falls within some particular categories set out in Section 14.
The Company holds water discharge permit 1281-3 to cover the discharge of stormwater
and truck washwater from a road transport depot into an unnamed tributary of the Waiongana
Stream. This permit was issued by the Council on 13 May 2002 under