the challenges ahead.
David MacLeod
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Over the past five years the
Council has helped restore and
rprotect mo e than 100 wetlands.
the region’s original8.4% of
wetland habitat remains.
Vulnerability to the effects
Policy and Planning Committee Agenda August 2018
discharge farm dairy effluent onto land, and until 1 December XXXX after treatment in an oxidation pond system and a
constructed drain into an unnamed tributary of the Manganui River
Discharge Permit 193 Tariki Road South, Tariki Waitara
21-01806-4.0 KJ & HL Uhlenberg (Waitui) Family Trust Partnership 22-Jul-21 Replacement for expiring consent To discharge farm dairy effluent onto land, and until 1 December XXXX after treatment in an oxidation pond system and a
wetland into an unnamed tributary
remediated for an alternative land users) in
accordance with the standards contained in Conditions 23 (Table 15) and 37 (Site Exit Plan):
(a) stormwater and leachate from vermiculture operations and from the orderly closure of
such operations, after treatment in the Wetland Treatment System, directly to an
unnamed tributary of the Haehanga Stream;
(b) stormwater and leachate from composting operations and from the orderly closure of
such operations. by irrigation to land;
(c) IseliEl ergarlie
known species of New Zealand native freshwater fish and several marine species that
occasionally wander into our rivers. At least 18 freshwater species can be found in Taranaki’s rivers,
streams or wetlands although others might be present that we are unaware of.
Species found in Taranaki include longfin and shortfin eels, inanga, koaro, three species of kokopu,
brown mudfish, six species of bully, black flounder, lamprey, smelt and torrentfish.
At least 15 of the above species are
Four inspections of the Pohokura Production Station (Photo 3), and one inspection of the Pohokura-A
wellsite were undertaken during the 2020-2021 monitoring year. Inspections were undertaken on 21 August
and 16 November 2020, and 22 March and 27 May 2021.
The Pohokura Production Station was generally neat and tidy with all fuel, chemical, condensate and
produced water tanks appropriately bunded. The stormwater system, including the fire water pond and the
wetland were visually clear of
Policy & Planning Committee agenda July 2021
exclusion and riparian planting on land used
for intensive pastoral farming, effluent discharge to land, wetland protection and forestry
setback distances from waterways. It also contains schedules of outstanding freshwater bodies
in the region and regionally significant freshwater and wetland species.
Following comments received on the draft, the Council is now carrying out further
consultation and investigations, with the intention of notifying a proposed plan before 2020
which will include
for the Colson Road landfill gas flare for the 2019
to date 70
Figure 29 Phasing of Stage 2 cap repair 77
Figure 30 Dissolved manganese concentrations in the wetland polishing area and Puremu Stream 82
List of photos
Photo 1 Stabilised northern toe of Stage 3, May 2023 4
Photo 2 Top of Stage 3 cap looking south, June 2023 4
Photo 3 Borrow area sediment pond, November 2020 5
Photo 4 Amended drainage and access during capping works for Stage 2 remediation, June 2023 5