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Discharge Quality

Improvements to Waste Water Treatment plants (WWTP) has seen a steady increase in the level of discharge compliance throughout the district.

 

Council commissioned a new $4.5 million WWTP for Te Aroha in December 2006 and the effluent discharge from this plant is fully compliant with the current discharge consent.

 

Compliance rates with resource consent conditions

 

Year Level of Compliance
2000/2002 100% level of compliance with its resource consent conditions
2002/2003 100% in Matamata and Te Aroha. 30% at the Morrinsville WWTP due to operational problems associated with high industrial loads and critical equipment failures.
2003/2004 40% compliance primarily due to not providing information to Environment Waikato in a timely manner, WWTPs being not fully compliant with conditions imposed on the consent, and a raw sewerage spill from near the Allen Street pump station in Morrinsville.
2004/2005 60% compliance due mostly to lack of monitoring and reporting of consent compliance in a timely manner. Morrinsville WWTP also failed to comply with discharge targets several times due to coliform levels.
2005/2006 A compliance rate of less than 90% was achieved for waste water, with non conformances at the Morrinsville and Te Aroha WWTPs. 100% level of compliance was achieved for stormwater discharges.
2006/2007 Council complied 100% with water & stormwater resource consent conditions. 85.5% compliance was achieved with wastewater discharge consent conditions.
2007/2008 Council complied 100% with water and stormwater resource consent conditions. 90.8% compliance was achieved with wastewater discharge consent conditions.
2008/2009 Council complied 100% with water resource consent conditions, 95% with stormwater resource consent conditions and 96% with wastewater discharge consent conditions.
2009/2010 Council complied 100% with water and storm water  resource consent conditions and 94% for waste water.
2010/2011 High compliance with conditions.
2011/12 High compliance with conditions.

 


Stormwater

Information on the volume of stormwater discharged from Council reticulation is not monitored.Council does however regularly monitor the quality of stormwater discharged as per conditions detailed in our discharge consents.

 

What Council Is Doing

Council has spent a considerable amount of money on the maintenance and upgrading of urban services such as wastewater, water and stormwater. The community receives education material regarding water conservation through the fortnightly publication ‘Council in Focus’.

 

Amount of Council spending on upgrading & renewing urban services

Year 00/01 01/02 02/03 03/04 04/05 05/06 06/07 07/08 08/09
($000s) 2,268 2,617
 2,007
 4,418
 3,164
 5,622 9,782 10,615 9,735
Year 09/10 10/11 11/12
($000s) 8,195 5,994 7,258

 

To help Council provide for increased demand and growth development contributions are collected by Council on all new developments and subdivisions.

 

Number and value of development contributions collected per year

Year 00/01 01/02 02/03 03/04 04/05* 05/06* 06/07* 07/08*
Number 12 32 14 35 59 261 379 263
Value ($) 32,620 210,942 43,863 226,898 758,471 915,296 1,661,510 1,457,327
Year 08/09* 09/10* 10/11 11/12
Number 135 229 238 114
Value ($) 1,136,605 336,602 373,770 168,028

*Includes Network contributions and Parks and Reserves contributions

 

In the early years the majority of these contributions were for Council recreation reserves rather than services but since 2004/05 the contributions are more related to services. In 2003/2004 the majority of the contributions received to Council were from the new Stirling Drive subdivision. A large amount of the contributions charged by Council during 2004/2005 were from three developments, a 21 lot development in Station Road Matamata; a 22 lot development in Grattan Road Te Aroha; and a 66 lot development off Ritchie Street Te Aroha. Significant contributions in 2005/06 came from a 55 lot development in Morrinsville. Two significant contributions were collected in 2006/07 for a retirement village and another development in Matamata. In 2007/08 two significant contributions were collected, a 51 lot development on Station Road, Matamata, and an 89 lot development on Coronation Street Morrinsville. Since 2009/10 the amount of money received from development contributions has reduced significantly. This is primarily because there has been less demand for residential sections over the last 12 months as a result of the economic downturn. Consequently fewer 224 certificates (completion certificates) have been issued and fewer development contributions have been received by Council.

 


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