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MuaUpoko are private owners of the bed of Lake Horowhenua and Hokio Stream but have been excluded by Horowhenua District Council from consultation over Levin's infamous landfill in a secret deal that could see the tip remain open for another 35 years
Instead Council's chief executive … View moreMuaUpoko are private owners of the bed of Lake Horowhenua and Hokio Stream but have been excluded by Horowhenua District Council from consultation over Levin's infamous landfill in a secret deal that could see the tip remain open for another 35 years
Instead Council's chief executive David Clapperton initiated meetings with Environment Court applicant Horowhenua Environmental Kaitiaki Association (HEKA) and parties to the application including Ngati Raukawa hapu Ngati Pareraukawa to ensure the landfill can stay open.
A draft copy of a press release prepared by the Council states both HEKA and Pareraukawa have agreed to end their Environment Court appeal over odour and leachate concerns once the agreement is signed.
Tamarangi hapu representative Vivienne Taueki of MuaUpoko Co-operative Society said the Council, “are aware of - but refuse to” consult with the MuaUpoko owners, “regarding serious adverse effects and consent from the owners for the discharge of contaminants onto our private land.”
She said Tamarangi do acknowledge Pareraukawa as being an affected party because Pareraukawa marae, Ngatokowaru, is close to the Levin landfill 4 km west of Levin on Hokio Beach Road but MuaUpoko hold mana whenua over the bed of Lake Horowhenua and Hokio Stream.
“This is acknowledged in the Lake Horowhenua Accord documents and was confirmed in the recent Muaupoko Priority Report released by the Waitangi Tribunal,” she said.
The 2017 MuaUpoko Priority Report defines mana whenua as, “customary rights and prestige and authority over land.”
She described the lack of acknowledgement by Mr Clapperton and the Council of the serious actual and potential adverse cultural effects caused by discharge of leachate into groundwater and surface water from the landfill to the ‘Tatana drain’ that enters Hokio stream, “of greatest concern.”
“The discharge of contaminants into the Hokio stream via surface water from the Tatana drain should be dealt with by a new resource consent application because there is no consent to discharge surface water.”
“Many of our hapu members are also private owners of the bed of the stream and assert that there is a requirement by Council to apply for consent for the discharge of contaminants by surface water to land which is the bed of the stream,” Ms Taueki said.
Council’s Long Term Plan 2018-2038 states, “A key negative effect…is the presence of both ground and airborne contaminants produced by the Landfill and their potential harm to the immediate environment. This effect is mitigated by strict adherence to Horizons Regional Council’s resource consent conditions. Council also facilitates a neighbourhood group and monitors the airborne effects associated with the Landfill.”
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Manawatu Wanganui Regional Council has been asked to confirm how many resource consents have been issued illegally in Horowhenua including to Horowhenua District Council.
The request was made by Lake Horowhenua owner and representative of the Tamarangi hapu of MuaUpoko Vivienne Taueki in response … View moreManawatu Wanganui Regional Council has been asked to confirm how many resource consents have been issued illegally in Horowhenua including to Horowhenua District Council.
The request was made by Lake Horowhenua owner and representative of the Tamarangi hapu of MuaUpoko Vivienne Taueki in response to a 21 March 2017 Environment Court decision against the regional council.
The Environment Court case won by Fish and Game Council and the Environmental Defence Society (EDS) determined the Manawatu Wanganui Regional Council [MWRC] was not giving legal effect to its own One Plan rules on intensive farming activities, the National Policy Statement for Freshwater Management and the Resource Management Act (RMA).
Ms Taueki, who was awarded a Horowhenua District Council mayoral civic award in November 2018 for her work maintaining ancestral lands and waterways, has also asked for a meeting with MWRC staff and councillors to discuss the adverse effects on "Muaupoko taonga such as Lake Horowhenua and the Hokio stream."
Muaupoko hold mana whenua over Lake Horowhenua and the Hokio Stream.
She wants confirmation about what resource consents have been granted to Horowhenua District Council [HDC] by MWRC using a resolution ruled by the Environment Court as, "unlawful, invalid and in contravention of the RMA."
She asked specifically for confirmation about resource consents granted to HDC for the Levin Waste Water Treatment Plant (LWWTP), Levin Landfill and the construction of a silt trap - a Lake Accord project.
The illegal resolution passed by MWRC on 25 June 2013 was rescinded almost four years later on 28 February 2017 but Environment Minister David Parker has become involved because MWRC is still not applying its own One Plan rules on discharges to land meaning hundreds of resource consents granted by MWRC are still illegal.
In a response to Ms Taueki from regional councillor John Barrow he described the appeals taken by Fish and Game Council and the EDS to the Environment Court as, "arguably destructive."
Cr Barrow said Horizons passed the "technically" illegal resolution to, "in effect, prevent the literal blood on the street that would have eventuated if council tried to force farmers into receivership."
He urged Ms Taueki and her brother Philip Taueki, also a Lake Horowhenua kaitiaki and owner, "to carefully consider your options."
A full transcript of Cr Barrows response to Ms Taueki is available as an attached document
Email March 8, 2019 from MWRC councillor John Barrow.docx Download View
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