AUTH-99085
Cnr North Road and Price Street
(Private Bag 90116)
Invercargill
Telephone (03) 215 6197
Fax No. (03) 215 8081
Southland Freephone No. 0800 76 88 45
Discharge Permit
Pursuant to Section 105(1) of the Resource Management Act 1991, a resource consent is
hereby granted by the Southland Regional Council (the "Council") to
Silver Fern Farms
Limited (the “consent holder”) of
P O Box 941, Dunedin 9054 from
3 August 2001.
Please read this Consent carefully, and ensure that any staff or
contractors carrying out activities under this Consent on your behalf
are aware of all the conditions of the Consent.
Details of Permit
Purpose for which permit is granted:
To discharge contaminants to the air from a meat
processing operation
Location
- site locality
Saleyards Road, Charlton
- map reference
F45:945:451
- receiving environment
Air
Legal description of land at the site:
Lot 3 DP 6488 Block XIII Waimumu Hundred
Expiry date:
3 August 2021
Hstory of Changes and Transfers
Transferred from
PPCS Waitane Ltd to
Silver Fern Farms Management Ltd on 20 November
2015.
Transferred from
Silver Fern Farms Management Ltd to
Silver Fern Farms Ltd on 26 October
2018.
Schedule of Conditions
Term and Purpose
1.
The consent shall be for a period of 20 years.
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2.
The consent permits the discharge to air of contaminants from a meat works,
including rendering, liquid drainage, meat processing and boiler operations, at the site
identified in the application, at Saleyards Road, Charlton, Gore.
3.
No alteration shall be made to the plant or process, as described in the application,
which may substantially adversely change the nature or quantity of contaminants
emitted without the prior approval of the Southland Regional Council’s Director of
Environmental Management.
NB: The application states that the total capacity of the
boilers is 3.67 MW and that liquid effluents are only treated to remove solidified fats.
Odour
4.
There shall be no discharge of odour from the site that is noxious, offensive or
objectionable to such an extent that it has an adverse effect on the environment
beyond the boundaries of the site.
5.
The consent holder shall maintain an odour complaints diary. The diary shall record
the date and time of each complaint, weather conditions (wind direction, wind speed
and temperature), location of the complaint, and nature and intensity of the odour.
The consent holder shall also record in the diary the action taken in response to the
complaint. The consent holder shall provide a record of the odour complaints diary to
the Southland Regional Council on request.
NB: This condition does not require the
consent holder to take action over every complaint but it does require that that
decision be recorded.
Rendering
6.
The following conditions apply to the operations of the rendering department:
(a)
The parts of the building connected to the ventilation air system shall be
operated at a negative pressure at all times when rendering operations are
being carried out.
(b)
Only fresh soft offal or soft offal which has been suitably stabilised or preserved
shall be processed in the rendering department. For the purposes of this clause
“fresh” means not older than 15 hours from the time of killing of the animal
from which the material is derived and “suitably stabilised or preserved” means
stabilised by reducing its temperature to less than 200C, or preserved by acid
stabilisation or an equivalent means, within six hours from the time of killing of
the animal from which the material is derived.
(c)
Only fresh blood or blood which has been suitably stabilised or preserved shall
be processed in the rendering department. For the purposes of this clause
“fresh” means not older than six hours from the time of killing of the animal
from which the blood is derived and “suitably stabilised or preserved” means
stabilised by reducing its temperature to less than 200C, or preserved by the
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addition of sodium metabisulphite or an equivalent means, within six hours from
the time of killing of the animal from which the blood is derived.
(d)
All other material shall be processed within 24 hours from the time of killing of
the animal from which the material is derived.
(e)
The rendering department and surrounds shall at all times be kept clean and
free from accumulations of materials which are likely to cause odour.
NB: Compliance with this condition does not remove the need to comply with
Conditions 4 and 5.
Stockyards
7.
The stockyards shall be kept clean and free from accumulations of materials which are
likely to cause odour, by washing on a two day cycle, or more frequently if conditions
so require.
NB: Compliance with this condition does not remove the need to comply
with Conditions 4 and 5.
Management Plan
8.
The consent holder shall prepare a management and operation plan for rendering
operations, including ancillary operations such as receipt of raw materials, dispatch of
product and disposal of wastes. The plan shall contain contingency plans for the
disposal of raw materials in cases of process or odour control equipment failure. A
copy of the plan shall be supplied to the Regional Council by 28 September 2001.
Review of Conditions
9.
The Southland Regional Council may serve notice of its intention to review the
conditions of this consent, in accordance with the conditions of this resource consent
and Sections 128 and 129 of the Resource Management Act 1991, during the period
March to September each year, for the purposes of:
a.
dealing with any adverse or cumulative effects on the environment which may
arise from the exercise of this consent;
b.
requiring peer review of the operation to determine the best practicable option
for addressing any adverse effect; or
c.
complying with the requirements of a regional plan.
10. The consent holder may, pursuant to section 127 of the Resource Management
Act 1991, apply to the Council, in the months of January to December each year, to
change the conditions of consent to allow for the discharge of contaminants from any
new plant or changes to the operation of any existing plant.
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Charges
11. The consent holder shall pay annual administration and monitoring charges to the
Southland Regional Council, collected in accordance with Section 36 of the Resource
Management Act, payable in advance on the first day of July each year.
for the
Southland Regional Council
Daniel Smith
Acting Consents Manager
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