“Ko Ōroua te Awa”, Ōroua River: Update
Mon 22 Feb 2010: “Ko Ōroua te Awa”, Ōroua River: Update
Taiao Raukawa – Environmental Resource Unit drafted a submission opposing the Manawatū District Council consent application for the Feilding Sewage Treatment Plant to continue discharging human effluent and other waste-water for a further 19 years into the Ōroua River.
Final submissions were due on the 14th January 2010.
Summary of the major points in the Taiao Raukawa submission are that:
- The Ōroua River is a natural taonga of Ngāti Raukawa;
- Taiao Raukawa advocates on behalf of Ngāti Raukawa and that we have traditionally opposed of any type of discharge entering into our fresh water and salt water systems;
- Taiao Raukawa opposes of any further consents that allows human effluent-sewage and storm-water to enter into the Ōroua River;
- The Feilding Sewage Treatment Plant has been running off a series of “interim” consent permits since 2001 – why has this been allowed to occur?;
- In 2004, the end of the pipeline was destroyed in a flood, and for 6 years waste-water has been flowing in an open drain – why has this been allowed to occur?;
- Overall, Taiao Raukawa opposes on cultural and ecological grounds; and
- Taiao Raukawa requests that these applications are declined and that an alternative land-based system is implemented which is environmentally sustainable.
Status: Awaiting Pre-Hearing or Hearing arrangements.
To read the Taiao Raukawa submission in full please click onto the below link:
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