On 7 March I and two other members of Tauranga Harbourwatch Inc. paid our cash and attended the Regional Council, Waikato University and Priority One's sponsored Tauranga Harbour Symposium at the Sulphur Point Yacht Club.
I asked a question as to why a large fertiliser factory on the edge of the harbour is still allowed to discharge into the harbour suspended solids, dissolved reactive phosphorus, ammoniacal nitrogen, fluoride, wastewater and an antifouling agent, octadecylamine? What effect is this discharge having upon the harbour and sea lettuce growth, if any?
The various answers were not satisfactory. I also quoted the resource consent numbers and the dates they had been re-issued in 2004, and their expiry dates in 2019.
Why on earth did the Regional Council roll over these two resource consents in 2004?
Tauranga Harbourwatch at that time did written and oral submissions against the re-issue of these resource consents but to no avail. Apparently all is OK as these discharges 'are monitored”, whatever that means. Tauranga Harbourwatch would like these discharges stopped until such time as research shows them to be benign.
Hylton Rhodes, Tauranga Harbourwatch Inc.
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Adding to a problem
Posted on 15-03-2013 13:41 | By TERMITE
Making it worse, perhaps RBOP could send them one of thise wonderful packages that they have created for farmers, you know the ones that are going to solve all the problems in the habour ... like farmers are the problem NOT! Perhaps RBOP could also send a pack to TCC sewerage department also, the discharge into the oceans is terrible.
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