Tuesday, 12 January 2021, 9:59 am
Preparation for desludging of the Taumarunui (Hikumutu)
Wastewater Treatment Plant is well underway with work on a
lined pit for holding three large bio-bags to contain the
settling pond sludge almost complete.
Acting
Environmental Manager Stuart Watson said that the desludging
is part of the scheduled maintenance of the settling ponds
required to keep the bugs in the ponds working efficiently
and producing water clean enough to release into the
environment.
“The settling ponds were last desludged
around eight years ago with the sludge spread directly onto
surrounding fields however new National Environmental
Standards for Freshwater means that this method is no longer
Freshwater rule changes suggested
2 minutes to read
By: Sally Rae
Beef + Lamb New Zealand says the Southland Advisory Group s recommendations on the intensive winter grazing rules offer practical alternatives to arbitrary rules .
The group was asked to look at the implementation of the intensive winter grazing rules within the new National Environmental Standards for Freshwater.
It included farmers, and staff from B+LNZ, DairyNZ, Federated Farmers, Fish and Game and Environment Southland.
It provided its advice to Environment Minister David Parker and Agriculture Minister Damien O Connor last week.
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In a statement, B+LNZ chairman Andrew Morrison, a Southland farmer, said the Environment Southland-led process had been a highly effective way of addressing major concerns with the new rules, and it was hoped the ministers would accept the recommendations.