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Rule application discharges to land

• Discuss proposed activity with

applicant/customer

• Can it meet permitted activity criteria
• If consent required, options i.e. controlled,

discretionary, notified vs non notified.

• Are there other ‘activities’ occurring in

conjunction with the primary activity that the applicant needs advice on.

Permitted Activities Pros - Cons

• Enabling for the person undertaking

activity without undue red tape

• Individually activities generally low risk

to environment as long as conditions complied with

• Cumulatively activities can have more

than minor effects on environment especially if conditions of rule not met

Permitted Activities Pros – Cons cont

• No compliance undertaken on permitted
• activities. Little or no knowledge about

where they are being undertaken

• Rely on public reporting non-compliance
• Little face to face contact/education with the

people undertaking the activity

Contractor told us they were disposing of Cleanfill – included asbestos and rubbish you can see here

Permitted Activity Examples – Farm dumps and offal pits

Operative Rule 9 Proposed R89 Suggested in Sn42A report Generated on property itself Same Same 20m away from surface water 50m from surface water, CMA, gully, bore used for potable water supply, boundary As proposed in R89 No hazardous substances Same Same 1m above water table 0.6m above water table As Proposed in R89 No windblown litter Requirement removed Requirement removed Ground rehabilitated within 6 months of farm dump becoming ‘full’ Same Same

• No burning
• Not in community drinking

water supply area

• No odour beyond boundary
• Does not contain wastewater,
• ffal or dead animal matter
• Size and location recorded
• Not exceed 50m3

Offal or dead animal matter removed, therefore farm dump can also be offal pit. All other requirements same as Proposed R89 Only on a property: Over 20ha; or In silty or clay soils;

• r where no kerbside collection

Or more than 20km of a transfer station As Proposed in R89

Groundwater

Offal Pits

• Definition of Offal pit = hole excavated – if using

farm dump to dispose of carcases/dead animal matter, no requirements for it to be below ground

• Proposed removal of the word ‘gully’ will it enable

farmers to dump carcasses/dead animal matter down the nearest gully?

• Meaning of surface water excludes ephemeral

flow paths which I believe most gullies are.

Application of Agricultural effluent rules as proposed in Section 42A report

Collected Animal Effluent

• nto or into land
• Majority of proposed R83 same or similar
• utcome to operative rule 13
• Addition of requirements around storage to

enable deferred irrigation and sealing of that storage

• Discharges within a drinking water supply

protection area bumped into discretionary activity

Changes proposed in Section 42A report

• Meaning of animal effluent proposed to exclude solid

animal waste

• ‘spreading’ solid animal waste will then sit under

application of compost R85 (Permitted)

• ‘storage’ of solid animal waste will sit under R90 where it

will be required to be stored on an impermeable surface (Permitted)

• Will no longer know where the solid waste is being

spread and no monitoring will occur

• Solid animal waste definition proposed to exclude dead

animals or animal parts

Large stock pile of screw press solids with ponding leachate not

• n sealed surface

Decomposing pig carcass amongst screw press solids

Sewage both OSWW and

• municipal. Industrial

discharges

• Proposed rules similar to operative

rules with the exception of R79.

• Permitted activities tweaked to reflect

more current standards (AS/NZS)

• Discharges in Community drinking

water supply catchment default to discretionary

Sewage both OSWW and municipal. Industrial discharges

• R79 created as TA’s wanted a controlled

activity for discharge to land of municipal

• sewage. CDC application example of

discretionary activity being easier to obtain.

• Wording of R79 didn’t include the word

‘municipal’, any activities discharging ‘wastewater’ were trying to use R79 and put them in worse position than a discretionary consent process.

Sewage both OSWW and municipal. Industrial discharges

• Proposal in Section 42A to reverse rule R79

to exclude municipal wastewater and create controlled activity for small to medium industrial discharges.

• Affords some protection to agricultural land

with requirements around not containing hazardous substances or substances likely to cause infectious disease in humans or

• ther animals or contain human sewage.