Discharge permit: To discharge coal ash from industrial operations, mixed with overburden, to land at the Takitimu coal…
To discharge coal ash from industrial operations, mixed with overburden, to land at the Takitimu coal mine, Nightcaps
Discharge permit · Environment Southland · lodged 16 Jan 2020
- Council
- Environment Southland
- Consent number
- ACT-20191678
- Kind
- Discharge permit
- Subtype
- To Land
- Application
- New consent (s88)
- Activity status
- Discretionary
- Lodged
- 16 Jan 2020
- Decided
- 14 May 2020
- Notification
- Not notified
- Hearing
- No
- Decided by
- Local authority officer
- Appealed to the Environment Court
- No
- Working days to decide
- 25
- Council charges
- $6,489
- Legal description
- Pt Section 7 Wairio SD, Lot 1 DP 4505, Lot 2 DP 501884, Section 193 Wairio SD, Section 200 Wairio SD, Section 322 Wairio SD, Lot 1 DP8851, Section 357 Wairo SD, and Road Parcel - Tinkertown Road (Tinkertown Otautau)
How it went
- Application lodged
- Council told the applicant there are affected neighbours
- Applicant answered: neighbours’ approvals, or notify them
- Granted
Properties
On 7 properties, matched by the legal description the council gave.
- 35 Hassed Road, Opio, Otautau
- 1685 Otautau Nightcaps Road, Wairio, Otautau · part of the site
- 6 Company Road, Nightcaps, Nightcaps · part of the site
- 39 Company Road, Nightcaps, Nightcaps · part of the site
- 120 Tinkertown Road, Tinkertown, Otautau
- 64 Friskin Road, Ohai, Ohai
- 150 Tinkertown Road, Tinkertown, Otautau
Environment Southland's RMA enforcement
The council's totals across its whole area, as it reported them to MfE. Not about this consent or this site: no record of individual breaches is published.
| Year | Actions | Abatement notices | Enforcement orders | Prosecutions | Convictions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024/25 | 37 | 28 | 3 | 4 | 3 |
| 2023/24 | 109 | 30 | 0 | 1 | — |
| 2022/23 | 28 | 67 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2021/22 | 77 | 23 | — | 1 | 6 |
| 2020/21 | 76 | 29 | — | 3 | 1 |