or it falls within some particular categories set out in Section 14.
The Council determined that the application to take groundwater fell within Rule 49
of the Regional Freshwater Plan for Taranaki (RFWP) as the rate and daily volume of
the groundwater abstraction may have exceeded that of the permitted activity (Rule
48). Rule 49 provides for groundwater abstraction as a controlled activity, subject to
two conditions:
• The abstraction shall cause not more than a 10% lowering of
levels in the race and lake and how much rain is
falling locally. This has allowed Trustpower to manage race flows to minimise
flooding, and has greatly improved Trustpower’s compliance with residual flow
requirements.
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Figure 1 Main features of the Trustpower Motukawa HEP Scheme including relevant consents
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1.3 Resource consents
1.3.1 Water abstraction permit
Section 14 of the RMA stipulates that no person may take, use, dam
Waitaha catchment consent monitoring report - Taranaki Regional Council.
lakes in the region are small lakes classified as having an open water
area of between one and five hectares. Only two lakes are recorded as having an open water area of
greater than 30 hectares.
13. In addition, there are a number of lakes in the region with an open water area of less than one hectare
which are not identified by FENZ, but still fall within the broad definition of ‘lake’ under the RMA.5 These
water bodies are more likely to be classified as wetlands rather than
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MEDIA RELEASE 1
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
19 August 2022, 11:30am
Civil Defence responds to severe weather event
Taranaki’s Civil Defence Emergency Co-ordination Centre (ECC) and the New Plymouth Emergency Operation Centre (EOC) have activated in response to the severe weather event that is hitting the region.
More than a metre of rain has fallen on Mount Taranaki causing significant flows down all rivers resulting in several families voluntarily
by NPDC that relate to the Colson Road landfill 14
Table 2 Monitoring programme objectives and programme development methodology 15
Table 3 Summary of monitoring activity for 2022-2023 16
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Table 4 Chemical analysis of Colson Road landfill combined site leachate discharge 33
Table 5 Results of analysis of under liner drainage for the year under review. 35
Table 6 Results of rain event monitoring – discharge and Puremu Stream samples, 1 June 2023 40
site was going to be scraped to remove proppant, and to also level out the site post drilling campaign.
Heavy rain earlier in the week had carried sediment into the ring drains and down to the wetland. Some of
the ring drains were visibly turbid, while others contained clear water as the sediment had been filtered
since the rain event. The bank separating the wetland from the site had undergone major works to stabilise
it and had been covered with coconut matting and hydroseed. The wetland had
applied (mm) m3 of effluent
Total 105.1 - 24,083
2.3.2.3 Method of irrigation
The effluent from the piggery is pumped to storage pond prior to land application. The Company
communicated that three different delivery systems were used during the 2021-2022 monitoring year:
1. Dribble bar – main method of effluent application, depths applied (~3 mm)
2. ‘Weta’ travelling rain gun – used to apply effluent to the Sand Dune block at 8mm depths during 8
months of the year.
3. Slurry tank
source of the elevated hydrocarbons and
remove them, no further action was taken at this stage.
17-Oct-23
Self-notification
received about a
hydrocarbon level
of 26.3mg/L in a
stormwater
sample
N No
The sumps system was inspected and no accumulations of oil
was found. As a precaution the sumps were emptied by
vacuum truck. A total of 45 mm of rain was recorded on 17-
10-23 and it was possible that this may have swept residual oil
contamination through the system.
Depart Ariki St
The Warehouse BBK
Parklands Ave BBK
Richmond St
Queen St
3.00 pm
3.15 pm
3.18 pm
3.51 pm
3:56 pm
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*Route 20 – Waitara/Bell Block/NP
(does not go to the Valley)
FREEBUS
Christmas Parade
Rain date
Sunday 1st
December
to the
NOVEMBER
30
SATURDAY
*routes run as per normal and stop at all stops*routes run as per normal and stop at all stops
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