monitoring period, issues were found with unacceptable wastes being exposed by coastal
erosion. This resulted in the site being closed to the public in 2017. Any further dune stabilisation will be
done using green waste disposed of at the Patea transfer station.
Patea Beach is an elevated site which for most of the time is dry. Rain that does fall on the site drains away
at a very rapid rate. The site does not suffer from flooding from rain or tidal action, due to its elevation.
Monitoring over
objections able to be lodged up until 29 October. The final proposal must then be submitted to the Local Government Commission for approval, as the Stratford population to member ratio again falls outside the guidelines. This has previously been approved by the Commission. If appeals are received, these will also be considered by the Commission. It will have until 11 April 2022 to make its determination.
being undertaken to reduce the footprint of the pad. This would greatly reduce the volume of stormwater
collected within the pad. Consequently there would be less pumping to the wetland treatment system and
therefore, generally an increase of retention time within the treatment system. RNZ were instructed to
ensure that uncontaminated storm water runoff was unable to enter the paunch pad, so that only the rain
that falls into the pond is required to be pumped through the wetland treatment
is approximately 6.1 km2. The length
of the catchment, from the headwaters between Paraite and Corbett Roads to the sea at Bell Block beach, is
approximately five kilometres.
The industrial area at Bell Block is situated mid-catchment (Figure 1). Historically, the industrial areas were
located predominantly on the western side of the stream however ongoing development since 2016 has
resulted in more sites on the eastern side. These sites fall under permitted activity rules and are not
brown.
Naturally, it’s more intricate than that.
Down near the mouth, if the tide is coming in and the light’s just right on a fine
autumn morning and there hasn’t been any rain for a day or two, the water is the
deep, dark green of pounamu as it slides past the town.
Upstream at the graceful Bertrand Road swing-bridge, it has the hues of a weak flat
white coffee, and in Tarata country at Pūrangi Bridge, it’s army camouflage.
In the high hill country, north of the “republic” of
monitoring inspection and to take
groundwater samples. It was raining with 8 mm of rain over the past 24 hours.
The newly capped area was starting to grow grass but was still largely uncovered
and quite soft underfoot (waterlogged). The northern batter was inspected and found
to have a minor amount of exposed rubbish where drainage works were undertaken.
This should be attended to once the new cap has stabilised and been grassed over.
There were some areas where there was some minor
the final aerobic pond into the neighbouring Waiongana Stream in
compliance with the conditions of Consent 0715.
Figure 1 Location of DH Lepper Trust piggery and Lepperton
1.3 Resource consents
Water abstraction permit 1.3.1
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
remediation pad. Any rain run-off and leachate that is
generated, drains into a series of ponds for treatment. Between each pond there is a
baffle that skims off any floating hydrocarbons as the leachate passes through. These
ponds also treat the leachate and stormwater from pad 1 where remediated drilling
wastes are stored and/or processed further. The treated liquid from the pond
treatment system (PTS) is then irrigated to cut and carry pasture on two irrigation
areas.
Run off and leachate
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trap, near the Firewater Pond. The carpark area project was on-going and a digger was working by burial pit.
The entrance to the old dairy factory on Old Normanby Road had traces of left over burial pit product in
front of the entrance. TBP staff were advised that this needed attention, as it was forming a crust and heavy
rain would likely cause it to discharge to the drain. A discussion was had about the importance of having
underground drain plans and these were again
bacteriological sampling at four sites at Urenui and five sites at
Onaero.
The monitoring showed that the wastewater treatment systems at the beach camps did not adversely affect
the water quality of the local freshwater and coastal environments. Although high bacteriological results
were returned from the water quality sampling efforts, these counts were attributed to surface runoff
draining the upstream agricultural catchment, following the rains that preceded the sampling.
There was one