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Executive Summary
The National Policy Statement for Freshwater Management 2017 (NPSFM) requires regional councils
to set environmental flows that include an allocation limit and a minimum flow.
As part of its review of the Freshwater Plan and development of a Proposed Natural Resources Plan
(that combines the current freshwater, soil and air plans), the Taranaki
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What is groundwater?
Groundwater is the water found underground.
It is stored in and moves slowly through the
cracks and spaces in soil formations, sand,
gravel and rocks called aquifers.
The Water Cycle
Water has always been on the move. From the
time planet Earth was formed, it has been
endlessly circulating in a process called the
water cycle. The cycle involves the continuous
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Policy & Planning Committee agenda February 2022
to prevent or
minimise adverse environmental effects.
Condition 2 states that no contaminants shall reach any adjacent property.
Conditions 3 to 5 deal with the concentration of heavy metals and hydrocarbons in
the soil around the site boundary.
Condition 6 requires that the standards in condition 5 must be met prior to
surrender.
Condition 7 states that groundwater must not be contaminated.
Condition 8 deals with changes to processes or operations at the site.
Condition 9
month
BTEX absorption disk $530.00 per sample
Deposition gauge $50.00 per month
Drager air sampler $40.00 per sample
DusTrak desktop monitor (PM10) $100.00 per day
DusTrak handheld $30.00 per deployment
Gastec air sampler $50.00 per sample
Stack air sampling kits $250.00 per day
Macroinvertebrate sample processing $334.00 per sample
Oxipond algal analysis $50.00 per sample
Periphyton aspirator $100.00 per day
Soil biomonitoring $7,658.00 per year
Soil Conservation and Rivers Control Act 1941 ............................................................................................. 3
2.3 Resource Management Act 1991 ...................................................................................................................... 3
2.4 National Policy Statement for Freshwater Management .............................................................................. 4
2.5 Regional Policy Statement for Taranaki
the end of the 1970s, it was a drain for the Waitara freezing works,
the wool scouring plant and the town sewage tanks, which added their combined
wastes to farming and dairy factory pollution and rubbish dump leachate swept down
from a hinterland that unloaded soil and mudstone laid bare by early unsuccessful
attempts to farm it.
In those days, the river’s opaque surface hid nasty surprises. Rowing there as a
young man, Kinsley Sampson, later chief executive of New Plymouth District
significant potential
sources, such as gas production stations, and this
shows levels well below both the national guidelines
and standards.
Nitrogen oxides (NOx) are a group of gases that can cause
lung inflammation and increase a person’s vulnerability
to respiratory infections and asthma, while long-term
exposure can lead to lung disease. They are produced
through biological activity from natural sources such as soil
and vegetation and also come from motor vehicles