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PROPOSED CONSENT CONDITIONS

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Snells Beach / Algies WWTP Short and Long-term – Proposed Consent Conditions

Under section 108 of the RMA, these consents are subject to the following conditions:

General Conditions

These conditions apply to all resource consents:

a) Discharge permit (REG-67908) – To discharge contaminants to air associated with

the operation of the existing and new Snells Beach / Algies Bay Wastewater Treatment

Plant (“WWTP”); and

b) Discharge permit (REG-67909) – To discharge of treated wastewater to the Hauraki

Gulf, associated with the operation of the existing and new Snells Beach / Algies Bay

WWTP.

Location

The existing and new Snells Beach / Algies Bay WWTP Location: 120 Hamatana Road,

Snells Beach

Legal Description of Land: Lot 3 Deposited Plan 193583

The existing and new Snells Beach / Algies Bay WWTP Map Reference: At or about New

Zealand Transverse Mercator [2000] (“NZTM”) Map Reference 1754100E, 5967900N.

Discharge Point Location: Coastal Marine Area, Hauraki Gulf. Approximately 2 km south of

Martins Bay and approximately 420 m offshore from the MHWS.

Discharge Point - Map Reference: At or about NZTM Map Reference 1758374E, 5963000N.

Term of Consent

1. These consents shall expire 35 years from the date of commencement, unless it has lapsed,

surrendered or been cancelled at an earlier date pursuant to the Resource Management Act

1991.

2. Under section 125 of the RMA, the consent shall lapse five years after the date of its

commencement unless:

a. The consent is given effect to; or

b. The Council extends the period after which the consent will lapse.


Activity in Accordance with Plans

3. The discharge activities shall be carried out in general accordance with the plans and

information submitted with the application, detailed below, and all material referenced by the

Council as consent number XX:

Application Form, and Assessment of Environmental Effects prepared by Mitchell

Partnerships Limited, dated 27 June 2016; or

Any subsequent plans or information that has received written approval from the

Manager.

4. In the event of any conflict between the document listed above and the conditions of this

consent, the conditions shall prevail.

5. The Consent Holder shall ensure that all staff and contractors undertaking works on site are

aware of, and adhere to, all conditions of this consent.

Works

6. Prior to the decommissioning of Storage Pond 2 of the existing Snells Beach / Algies Bay

WWTP, but no later than five years following the commencement of this consent, the

Consent Holder shall install, and have operational, a suitably sized membrane filtration plant

as part of the wastewater treatment system as is described in the Assessment of

Environmental Effects prepared by Mitchell Partnerships Limited, dated 27 June 2016.

7. Within one month of the installation of the membrane filtration plant required by Condition 6,

the Consent Holder shall notify the Manager in writing that the upgrade works are completed

and provide ‘as-built certification’ from a suitably qualified engineer that the membrane

filtration plant has been installed, and is operating, in accordance with industry standard.

8. Within five years of the commencement of this consent, the Consent Holder shall construct

and operate a new wastewater treatment system at the Snells Beach / Algies Bay WWTP

site.

9. Within one month of the completion of the new WWTP required in accordance with Condition

8, the Consent Holder shall notify the Manager, in writing, that the construction works are

completed and provide ‘as-built certification’ from a suitably qualified engineer that the new

WWTP has been installed, and is operating, in accordance with industry standard.

Standards - Short Term Discharges

10. Conditions 11 and 12 below apply to the continued operation of the existing Snells Beach /

Algies Bay WWTP, and shall apply until the new WWTP has been commissioned in

accordance with condition 8 above, but in any event for no longer than 5 years from

commencement of this consent (Short Term Standards):

a. Discharge volume from the wastewater treatment system to the coastal marine area

shall not exceed a maximum daily flow of 4,000 m3 per day;


b. The discharge of treated wastewater shall be tidally staged such that discharges shall

not occur between 2.5 and 0.5 hours before high and low water, except when pond

levels necessitate longer periods of discharge; and

c. The population serviced shall not exceed 4,400 PE.

11. Treated wastewater discharges from the existing Snells Beach / Algies Bay WWTP shall be

equal to or better than the limit specified for that parameter as set out in Table 1. Collection

of treated wastewater samples shall occur weekly and take place following treatment and

prior to discharge the rising main outfall pipeline.

Table 1: Treated Wastewater Quality Standards

Parameter Units 92nd percentile

limit

cBOD5 mg/L 80

Total Suspended

Solids

mg/L 100

E.coli cfu/100mL 10,000

Faecal coliforms cfu/100mL 7,500

Dissolved oxygen mg/L >2

12. Further to those parameters identified in Table 1, the Consent Holder shall also undertake

discharge quality monitoring prior to discharging to the rising main outfall pipeline for the

parameters identified in Table 2 below.

Table 2: Additional Treated Wastewater Monitoring Parameters

Parameter Units Frequency

Enterococci cfu/100 ml Weekly

pH SU Weekly

Temperature °C Weekly

Salinity Weekly

Conductivity Ms/m Weekly

Total Nitrogen g/m3 Monthly

Total Phosphorous gP/m3 Monthly

Dissolved and recoverable

phosphorous

gP/m3 Monthly

Organic compounds (PAH,

OCs PCBs)

g/m3 Quarterly for 2 years

Heavy Metals Quarterly for 2 years

13. The Consent Holder shall ensure that all chemical analyses and sampling techniques are

carried out in accordance with the latest edition of “Standard Methods for the Examination

of Water and Wastewater”, APHA AWWA WEF, or other standards approved in writing by

the Manager.


14. If no discharge is occurring on a scheduled sampling day, a sample shall be collected as

soon as reasonably practicable following resumption of normal operation.

Standards - Long Term Discharges

15. Conditions 16 and 17 below apply to the operation of the Snells Beach / Algies Bay WWTP

once it has been upgraded in accordance with condition 8 above (Long Term Standards):

a. Discharge volume from the wastewater treatment system to the coastal marine area

shall not exceed a maximum daily flow of 29,000 m3 per day; and

b. The population serviced by the new Snells Beach / Algies Bay Wastewater Treatment

System shall not exceed 30,000 PE.

16. Treated wastewater discharges from the new WWTP shall be equal to or better than the limit

specified for that parameter as set out in Table 3. Collection of treated wastewater samples

shall occur weekly and take place following UV treatment and prior to discharge to the rising

main outfall pipeline.

Table 3: Treated Wastewater Quality Standards from the new WWTP.

Parameter

Units Median

limit

92nd

percentile

limit

cBOD5 mg/L 5 20

TSS mg/L 5 20

Faecal

coliforms* cfu/100mL 10 150

Enterococci* cfu/100mL 10 150

Ammoniacal -

N (NH4-N) mg/L 5 15

Total Nitrogen mg/L 10 20

*Watercare will consider a dosage based scheme similar to Mangere WWTP

17. Further to those parameters identified in Table 3, the Consent Holder shall also undertake

discharge quality monitoring prior to discharging to the rising main outfall pipeline for the

parameters identified in Table 4 below.

Table 4: Additional Treated Wastewater Monitoring Parameters

Parameter Units Frequency

Dissolved Oxygen gm/m3 Weekly

pH SU Weekly

Temperature °C Weekly

Salinity Weekly

Conductivity Ms/m Weekly

Total Nitrogen g/m3 Monthly

Total Phosphorous gP/m3 Monthly

Dissolved and recoverable

phosphorous

gP/m3 Monthly


Organic compounds (PAH,

OCs PCBs)

g/m3 Quarterly for 2 years

Heavy Metals Quarterly for 2 years

18. The Consent Holder shall ensure that all chemical analyses and sampling techniques are

carried out in accordance with the latest edition of “Standard Methods for the Examination

of Water and Wastewater”, APHA AWWA WEF, or other standards approved in writing by

the Manager.

19. If no discharge is occurring on a scheduled sampling day, a sample shall be collected as

soon as reasonably practicable following resumption of normal operation.

General Standards - Short Term and Long Term Discharges

20. For the duration of this consent, the Consent Holder shall advise the Manager in writing

immediately in the event that problems are detected in association with the exercise of this

consent that could pose an environmental risk by affecting discharge quality and shall outline

a schedule of action to remedy issues.

21. The Consent Holder shall ensure that no new trade, industrial, non-domestic or other strong

wastes shall be permitted to be discharged into the existing or new WWTP except in

accordance with the Trade Waste Bylaw / Te Ture a Rohe Waiparui a Mahi 2013 or any

Operative Trade Waste By-law that may supersede this.

22. The Consent Holder shall ensure that for the duration of this consent, the wastewater

treatment system is maintained and operated by a suitably qualified and experienced

wastewater plant operator. This operator shall oversee the operation and management of

the wastewater treatment system and perform the operational and maintenance

responsibilities specified in the Environmental Management Plan (Condition 43).

23. At all times during the term of this consent, the Consent Holder shall maintain flow meters

to continuously measure the total daily inflow to the wastewater treatment plant and the total

daily volume discharged to rising main outfall pipeline prior to entering the coastal marine

area. The discharge volume meters must be maintained to ensure an accuracy of plus or

minus 5 percent.

24. The Consent Holder shall record daily inflow and discharge volumes from the meters

required by Condition 23. Records shall be kept of the volumes discharged to the rising

main outfall pipeline prior to entering the coastal marine area, the date and the wastewater

treatment plant inflow.

Monitoring - Short Term and Long Term Discharges (Surface Water)

25. The Consent Holder shall design a surface water monitoring programme for the coastal

marine area surrounding the outfall discharge point of the existing Snells Beach WWTP and

the new WWTP. The purpose of the surface water monitoring programme is to measure

water quality in the receiving and surrounding coastal environments to ascertain any

changes in water quality attributable to the discharges from the WWTPs and to confirm


predictions on effects. The programme shall be implemented within one month of the

commencement of this consent as follows:

a. The surface water monitoring programme shall, as a minimum, monitor the following

parameters:

Parameter Units Sites

Dissolved Oxygen mg/L All

pH SU All

Total Suspended Solids mg/L All

E.coli cfu/100mL All

Faecal Coliforms cfu/100mL All

Chlorophyll a μg/L All

Dissolved and recoverable phosphorous

gP/m3 All

Biochemical Oxygen Demand mg/L All

Ammoniacal-N (NH4-N) mg/L All

Nitrate-N (NO3-N) mg/L All

Nitrite-N mg/L All

Total Nitrogen mg/L All

Total Phosphorus mg/L All

b. The surface water monitoring programme shall include as a minimum:

i. The parameters which are being monitored (as identified in (a) above);

ii. The location, methodology and frequency of all surface water monitoring;

iii. The review and reporting methods; and

iv. A procedure for modifying the surface water monitoring programme.

Revisions to the surface water monitoring programme shall be to a standard acceptable to

the Manager and shall be submitted to the Manager for approval in a certifying capacity prior

to the proposed date of commencement.

26. The surface water monitoring programme shall form part of the Environmental Management

Plan required under Condition 43 below.

27. The Consent Holder shall undertake the activities in accordance with the surface water

monitoring programme developed in Condition 25.


Monitoring - Short Term and Long Term Discharges (Shellfish)

28. The Consent Holder shall design a Shellfish Monitoring Programme for the coastal marine

area surrounding the outfall discharge point of the existing Snells Beach / Algies Bay WWTP

and the new WWTP. The programme shall be implemented within one month of the

commencement of this consent and, as a minimum, monitor shellfish at least annually at an

inshore site adjacent to the outfall for E.coli and viruses, at a site at Martins Bay as well as

one near Mahurangi Heads. The shellfish monitoring programme shall include as a

minimum:

i. The parameters which are being monitored;

ii. The location, methodology and frequency of all monitoring;

iii. The review and reporting methods; and

iv. A procedure for modifying the shellfish monitoring programme.

Revisions to the Shellfish Monitoring Programme shall be to a standard acceptable to the

Manager and shall be submitted to the Manager for approval in a certifying capacity prior to

the proposed date of commencement.

29. The shellfish monitoring programme shall form part of the Environmental Management Plan

required under Condition 43 below.

Monitoring Long Term Discharges (Benthic Habitats)

30. Within one month of the new WWTP becoming operational, the Consent Holder shall engage

a suitably qualified person to design and implement a Benthic Habitat Assessment

Programme to identify any changes in spatial habitats in order to provide a basis to assess

any changes in benthic communities in Martins Bay and surrounding the outfall which may

be attributable to the discharges from the new WWTP and to confirm predictions on effects.

The Benthic Habitat Assessment Programme shall, as a minimum, include:

a. Monitoring of:

i. Benthic ecology;

ii. Sediment texture;

iii. Sediment organic carbon content, including total nitrogen and total phosphorous

concentrations;

iv. Heavy metals; and

v. Macroalgal cover and extent.


b. Mapping of spatial habitat changes within the coastal marine area at the outfall

discharge location and the surrounding area from available aerial/satellite photos;

c. Review of any relevant benthic monitoring data from Auckland Council monitoring

programmes;

d. Consider reasons for any changes in spatial habitat and benthic communities and the

role of discharges from the new WWTP; and

e. Any other issue considered important by the Consent Holder.

31. The Benthic Habitat Assessment Programme shall be to a standard acceptable to the

Manager and shall be forwarded to the Manager by 30 September of each year that it is

required.

32. The Benthic Habitat Assessment Programme shall form part of the Environmental

Management Plan required under Condition 43 below.

Monitoring Long Term Discharges (Emerging Contaminants)

33. The Consent Holder shall engage a suitably qualified person to undertake an Emerging

Contaminants Risk Assessment of the treated wastewater from the new WWTP within one

month becoming operational and subsequently at five yearly intervals thereafter. The

Emerging Contaminants Risk Assessment shall as a minimum include:

a. A review of changes in the state of knowledge of emerging contaminants relevant to the

new WWTP either since the commencement of these consents or the previous

Emerging Contaminants Risk Assessment, whichever is more recent.

b. Consideration of whether additional samples are required for the purposes of the

Emerging Contaminants Risk Assessment.

c. Measurement of emerging contaminants if determined necessary and the results of any

samples collected.

d. An assessment of the risks to the environment from emerging contaminants in the

treated wastewater discharged from the new WWTP.

The Emerging Contaminants Risk Assessment shall be to a standard acceptable to the

Manager and shall be forwarded to the Manager by 30 September of each year that it is

required.

34. The Emerging Contaminants Risk Assessment shall form part of the Environmental

Management Plan required under Condition 43 below.


Monitoring - Short Term and Long Term Discharges (Air Quality)

35. The Consent Holder shall ensure that all processes on site are operated, maintained,

supervised, monitored and controlled to ensure that emissions to air authorised by this

consent are maintained at the minimum practicable level.

36. No noxious, offensive or objectionable (in the opinion of an enforcement officer) dust and/or

odours shall be caused by discharges from the activities authorised by this consent beyond

the boundary of the site.

37. No hazardous air contamination, caused by discharges from activities authorised by this

consent, which causes, or is likely to cause, an adverse effect to human health, the

environment or property, shall occur beyond the boundary of the site.

38. All sludge removal from the storage ponds and subsequent de-watering and disposal shall

be carried out in a manner that minimises odour to the extent practicable.

39. The Consent Holder shall prepare and maintain an Odour Management Plan, as part of the

Environmental Management Plan, to describe measures to control and reduce the potential

for odour generation to occur, which could give rise to off-site effects. The Odour

Management Plan shall as a minimum include the following:

a. Locations of odour treatment equipment;

b. Monitoring requirements for odour treatment equipment, e.g. moisture content and

pH for biofilter media and pressure drop across biofilter media;

c. Frequency and location of odour monitoring; and

d. Alert / Response Level.

The Odour Management Plan shall be to a standard acceptable to the Manager and shall

be submitted to the Manager for approval in a technical certification capacity within six

months from the date of commencement of this consent.

40. Within one month of commissioning the new WWTP in accordance with condition 8, the

Consent Holder shall provide an updated Odour Management Plan for the new WWTP to

the Manager for approval in a technical certification capacity

41. Once approved in accordance with Condition 39, the Odour Management Plan shall be

implemented as soon as the Consent Holder receives the Manager’s approval of the Odour

Management Plan.

42. The Odour Management Plan shall form part of the Environmental Management Plan

required under Condition 43 below.


Short and Long Term Discharges (Environmental Management Plan)

43. The Consent Holder shall prepare an Environmental Management Plan, the purpose of

which is to integrate operational practices, environmental monitoring programmes and

reporting of results required by the conditions of these consents. The Environmental

Management Plan shall as a minimum include the following matters:

Inspection and Maintenance

a. The Inspection and Maintenance section shall outline the practices and procedures

with respect to inspection and maintenance to be adopted to ensure compliance with

conditions of this consent and shall as a minimum address the following:

i. Inspection and maintenance programme, including schedules and logs,

designed to verify the correct functioning of the whole wastewater treatment

and discharge system;

ii. Identification of staff and/or contractor responsibilities; and

iii. Quality control procedures.

Treated Wastewater and Receiving Environment Monitoring and Reporting

b. The Monitoring and Reporting section shall outline the practices and procedures with

respect to monitoring and reporting to be adopted to demonstrate compliance with the

conditions of these consents and shall as a minimum address the following:

i. Measurement of wastewater to enable the ongoing efficiency of the treatment

plant to be assessed including but not limited to the following aspects:

a. The performance of the treatment plant with respect to reducing a

range of determinands, specifically including the measurement of

the parameters in Table 1 and 2, as required by Conditions 11 and

12, and Table 3 and 4, as required by Conditions 16 and 17, in the

final treated wastewater; and

b. Dissolved oxygen levels in the aerated lagoon.

ii. Enable the potential environmental effects of the discharge on the receiving

environment to be assessed, including, but not limited to the following:

a. Surface monitoring programmes, including sampling locations and

monitoring parameters, as required by Condition 25 of these

consents;

b. Shellfish monitoring programme by Condition 28;

c. Benthic Habitats Assessment Programme required by Condition 30;


d. Emerging Contaminant Risk Assessment required by Condition 33;

e. The Odour Management Plan required by Condition 39 of these

consents; and

f. Other aspects of the existing and new Snells Beach / Algies Bay

WWTP that have the potential to create adverse environmental

effects, including noise.

iii. The Monitoring and Reporting section shall outline the practices and procedures

with respect to monitoring and reporting to be adopted to demonstrate on-going

compliance with the conditions of this consent and shall as a minimum address

the following:

a. Location and type of monitoring equipment;

b. Maintenance and calibration of monitoring equipment;

c. Schedule and log of monitoring requirements; and

d. Encompass field collection methodologies, protocols, data

recording procedures and standards, and record keeping.

Viral Monitoring Plan

c. Within one month of the new WWTP becoming operational in accordance with

condition 8, the Consent Holder shall prepare a Viral Monitoring Plan (VMP)

detailing a programme of regular checks of viral removal through the WWTP to

monitor the treatment plant performance. The VMP shall include procedures to

measure viral removal through the treatment plant process and how this may then

be converted to process monitoring of the UV dose. The viral reduction targets

shall be 4 log reduction (based on FRNA-Bacteriophage indicator virus) shall be

achieved for initially for dry and wet weather flows. When informed by the Auckland

Regional Public Health Service of any suspected outbreak of communicable

disease in the community that could adversely affect the recreationally targeted

shellfish / kaimoana via the discharge from the WWTP, the Consent Holder shall

respond by monitoring viral reduction through the WWTP as per the VMP and the

results from the monitoring shall be made available to the public and the Regional

Public Health as soon as practicable.

Within one month of the five year anniversary of the commencement of the VMP,

and every five years thereafter as required, the Consent Holder shall undertake a

review of the VMP to determine the appropriateness of the continuation of the viral

monitoring at the new WWTP. The review shall, as a minimum, evaluate the

effectiveness of virus removal from the treated wastewater samples collected over

the previous five years. Where it is shown that the new WWTP is achieving a high

level of virus removal, i.e. consistently greater than 4 log removal, the Consent

Holder may formally request that any further viral monitoring requirements cease.

Any such request shall be submitted in writing to the Manager for approval and the


viral monitoring requirements shall not cease until such approval is received. The

Manager shall provide approval if it is satisfied that the Consent Holder has

demonstrated that the new WWTP is continuously achieving greater than 4 log

removal and can demonstrate that it can continue to do so for the duration of the

consent as wastewater flows increase.

Responding to Complaints

d. The Responding to Complaints section shall outline the practices and procedures

for responding to any complaints received as required under Condition 50 of these

consents.

Contingency and Incident Management

e. The Contingency and Incident Management section shall outline the practices and

procedures to be adopted with respect to contingency and incident response

planning in order to avoid non-compliance with conditions of the consent.

The Environmental Management Plan shall be to a standard acceptable to the Manager.

44. The Environmental Management Plan shall be submitted to the Manager for approval in a

certifying capacity within six months of the consents commencing except for those parts

approved under Conditions 25, 30, 33, 28 and 39 which shall be submitted in accordance

with the timeframes required by those conditions.

45. The Consent Holder shall undertake the requirements of the Environmental Management

Plan once it has been finalised. All subsequent significant updates to the Environmental

Management Plan throughout the term of this consent shall be submitted to the Manager for

approval in a certifying capacity.

46. Any amendments to the Environmental Management Plan shall be approved by the Manager

prior to implementation.

Reporting Conditions

47. An Annual Performance Report shall be submitted to the Manager by September 30 of each

year. The report shall:

i. Collate, analyse and interpret all relevant data and information pertaining to this

consent for the previous year from 1 July to 30 June;

ii. Include comment on general plant performance and any trends in changes in the

discharge volume and/or the discharge quality standards over time;

ii. Include a consideration of compliance with each consent condition; and

iii. Identify any actions required and submit a timetable to rectify any non-compliance.


48. The Consent Holder shall engage a suitably qualified person to assess the surface water

quality monitoring undertaken as part of these consent conditions by 30 September of the

fifth anniversary of the commencement of this consent and subsequently at five yearly

intervals thereafter. This assessment shall as a minimum:

i. Report on any trends in the concentration of parameters measured;

ii. In combination with the results of coastal water quality monitoring undertaken by

Auckland Council, assess whether there is any evidence for nutrients sourced from

new WWTP could breakthrough to coastal marine area surrounding the outfall

approximately 2 km south of Martins Bay, in sufficient quantities to cause deterioration

of coastal water quality; and

iii. Review recorded concentrations in treated wastewater and from the monitoring

undertaken in accordance with Condition 25 and assess whether the WWTP is

operating efficiently and effectively.

This assessment shall be to a standard acceptable to the Manager and shall be forwarded

to the Manager by 30 September of each year that it is required.

Complaints Record

49. All complaints received by the Consent Holder about the discharges shall be logged

immediately. The information shall include:

a. The date, time, location and nature of the complaint;

b. Name, phone number and address of the complainant unless the complainant wishes

to remain anonymous;

c. Action taken to remedy the problem;

d. Any equipment failure and remedial action taken;

e. The weather conditions at the time of the complaint including estimates of wind

direction, wind strength, temperature and cloud cover; and

f. The date and name of the person making the entry.

50. Details of any complaints received that affect the Consent Holder's ability to comply with the

conditions of consent shall be provided to the Auckland Council within 24 hours of receipt of

the complaint(s) or on the next working day. All other complaints shall be provided in the

Annual Report required by Condition 47.

Review

51. The conditions of this consent may be reviewed by the Manager pursuant to section 128 of

the Resource Management Act 1991 (RMA), by giving notice pursuant to section 129, on


the fifth anniversary of the commencement of these consents and subsequently at intervals

of not less than five years thereafter in order to:

a. To deal with any significant adverse effects on the environment arising from the exercise

of the consent, which was not foreseen at the time the application was considered and

which is appropriate to deal with at the time of review; and / or,

b. To consider the adequacy of conditions that prevent nuisance and adverse effects

beyond the boundary of the site particularly if regular or frequent complaints have been

received and validates by a Council enforcement officer; and / or

To consider developments in technology and management practices that would enable

practical reductions in the discharge of contaminants

c. To alter the monitoring requirements, including requiring further monitoring, or

increasing or reducing the frequency of monitoring.

Charges and Access

52. This consent (or any part thereof) shall not commence until such time as the following

charges, which are owing at the time the Council's decision is notified have been paid in full:

a. All fixed charges relating to the receiving, processing and granting of this resource

consent under section 36(1) of the RMA; and

b. All additional charges imposed under section 36 of the RMA to enable the Council

to recover its actual and reasonable costs in respect of this application.

c. All initial consent compliance monitoring charges, plus any further monitoring

charges to recover the actual and reasonable costs incurred to ensure compliance

with the conditions attached to this consent.

Advice Note: The initial monitoring deposit is to cover the cost of inspecting the site,

carrying out tests, reviewing conditions, updating files, etc., all being work

to ensure compliance with the resource consent. In order to recover actual

and reasonable costs, monitoring of conditions, in excess of those covered

by the deposit, shall be charged at the relevant hourly rate applicable at the

time. The consent holder will be advised of the further monitoring charge.

Only after all conditions of the resource consent have been met, will the

council issue a letter confirming compliance on request of the consent

holder.

53. The servants or agents of the Council shall be permitted to have access to the relevant parts

of the property at all reasonable times for the purpose of carrying out monitoring procedures,

inspections, surveys, investigations, tests, measurements or take samples while adhering

to the Consent Holder's health and safety policies.


Advice notes

1. A copy of the consent and these conditions should be held at the Snells Beach / Algies Bay

Wastewater Treatment Plant site.

2. Compliance with the consent conditions will be monitored by the Council In accordance with

section 35(d) of the RMA. This will typically include site visits to verify compliance (or non-

compliance) and documentation (site notes and photographs) of the activity established

under the consents. In order to recover actual and reasonable costs, Inspections will be

charged at the relevant hourly rate applicable at the time.

3. The Consent Holder Is advised that the discharge limits in this consent have been agreed

to enable the plant to continue to operate in the short term, but they do not necessarily

represent levels appropriate for the receiving environment in the longer term.

4. The Consent Holder Is advised that, the Council may at any time undertake source emission

testing and/or any other monitoring to ensure compliance with the conditions of this consent.

The Consent Holder Is advised that they will be required to pay for the costs of this

monitoring.

Delegated decision maker:

Name:

Title: Team Leader, Resource Consents

Signed:

Date:

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