Dairy farmers fined and warned over effluents breaches
With the dairy season at its peak, farmers breaching their resource consents have appeared on the West Coast Regional Council's black list for the first time in months. Photo: RNZ / Russell Palmer The council's compliance report for December lists four farms where the effluent rules were not being followed. At Haupiri, a farmer was served with an infringement notice after an inspection revealed a standoff pad used through the winter was too close to a creek. A Whataroa farmer has had a formal warning, after an effluent pond was found flowing into a paddock. Though the farm had resource consen...