karakia at 9.00am.
Apologies: Were received and sustained from, R Buttimore, Ā White, B Bigham, P Muir
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1. Confirmation of Minutes Operations and Regulatory Committee 18 July 2023
Recommended
That the Taranaki Regional Council:
a) took as read and confirmed the minutes of the Operations and Regulatory
Committee of the Taranaki Regional Council held on 18 July 2023 at Taranaki
Regional Council 47 Cloten Road Stratford
b) noted the
confluence
126 The Mako Stream below Lake Ratapiko is a tributary of the Makino
Stream; analysis not presented here noting that the dammed
catchment (8.5 km2) is relatively small
h. Waitara River at Tarata 701 Long-term gauge with good quality flow record from 1968;
represents river flow immediately downstream of MTK discharge
i. Waitara River at Bertrand
Road
1113 Long-term gauge with good quality flow record from 1980;
represents flow in the lower Waitara River downstream of the
confluence
been reviewed for the year under review 7
Table 3 Surface water monitoring site details, discharges to water 10
Table 4 Monitoring site details for the Stuart Road irrigation area 11
Table 5 Monitoring site details for the Paulwell Farm irrigation area 12
Table 6 Biomonitoring site details 15
Table 7 Surface water quality results 2021 23
Table 8 Surface water quality results 2022 24
Table 9 Inter-laboratory comparison results June 2022 and October 2022 27
Table 10
any additional investigation or
intervention as found necessary.
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10
Hāwera landfill
Site description
The Matangara Road municipal landfill was used for domestic waste disposal for the Hāwera District. A small
unnamed tributary of the Tawhiti Stream flowed down a deep gully (approximately 30m) from the north-
west to the south-east of the landfill site. The stream was directed into a 750mm pipe and waste was
deposited into the landfill over the pipe, shown
into the Race is located to the south of the Race. During flood events, stormwater runoff from
the local catchment enters the Race.
The two largest tributaries that feed directly into the Race are at chainage (CH) 1300m
(refer to Photo 1, 1.3km from the intake, Salisbury Drain immediately upstream of the
Salisbury Road Culvert) and at CH 3400m (refer to Photo 2, 3.4km from the intake, unnamed
drain upstream of Tunnel 2). Prior to the Race construction and modifications to the drainage
corner of
Monmouth Road and Mountain Road/State Highway 3, approximately 1 km north of Stratford. The site is
adjacent to a tributary of the Kahouri Stream which forms part of the Pātea catchment, and is within the
shared rohe of Ngāti Ruanui, Ngāti Ruahine and Ngāti Maru.
This report for the period July 2022 to June 2023 details the monitoring programme implemented by
Taranaki Regional Council (the Council) to assess the Company’s environmental performance and
compliance with its resource
March 2023
Approved by: AJ Matthews, Director - Environment Quality
S J Ruru, Chief Executive
Document: 3173476
Recommendations
That the Taranaki Solid Waste Management Committee of the Taranaki Regional Council:
a) takes as read and confirms the minutes and resolutions of the Taranaki Solid Waste
Management Committee meeting held at Taranaki Regional Council, 47 Cloten Road
Stratford on 9 March 2023
b) notes that the unconfirmed minutes of the Taranaki Solid Waste
the monitoring programme associated with resource consents held by Silver Fern Farms Ltd (the
Company). The Company operates a meat processing plant situated on Wai-inu Beach Road at Waitōtara, in
the Waitōtara catchment. The monitoring period coincides with the plant’s processing season.
The report includes the results and findings of the monitoring programme implemented by the Council in
respect of the consents held by the Company that relate to abstraction of water, discharge of wastes
1 Introduction
Compliance monitoring programme reports and the Resource
Management Act 1991
1.1.1 Introduction
This report is for the period July 2022 to June 2023 by the Taranaki Regional Council (the Council) on the
monitoring programme associated with resource consents held by two concrete batching plants in the
Taranaki Region, Firth Industries on Glover Road in Hawera, and Fletcher Concrete and Infrastructure Ltd
(Fletcher Concrete) on Mountain Road in Stratford.
The
Whiti, Ngā
Mahanga a Tairi and NPDC on the old Dow site
remediation project
• work with Ngāti Maru and Ngāti Ruanui has
begun on the development of a cultural
narrative and design elements for the new office
build at the Regional Council office in
Whakaahurangi Stratford
• involvement of Otaraua and Pukerangiora hapū
members in the QMRA sampling and water
monitoring programme at Bertrand Road on the
Waitara River
• support/advice provided to Ngāruahine with a
salt marsh