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-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Smith <[FOI #30311 email]>
Sent: Thursday, 6 March 2025 10:27 AM
To: WCRC Information <[West Coast Regional Council request email]>
Subject: Official Information request - Pollution Report, Buller River
mid-Jan 2025.

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Dear West Coast Regional Council,

1. . . Could you please provide the correspondence between WCRC and other
parties, including BDC, following the Pollution report filed in mid-Jan ?

The event was originally reported to the Compliance Team by Kevin Smith,
it concerned the dredge Kawatiri and the activity in the Buller River.

Background. ......
The dredge was operating in the Westport lagoon and Buller River on 9th
and 10th Jan 2025.
The webcam footage appeared to show the dredge trickle discharging in the
Buller River. It did not cross the bar and dump at the normal site. This
activity was early morning and covered three or four trips.

Over the weekend, 11th Jan, a resident reported seeing an oil stain line
running along a stretch of the North Beach.
I spoke to him and also a former Harbour Master, before ringing and filing
the event report, possibly about 15th.

I have not received a reply or heard of any follow-up.

Yours faithfully,

Kevin Smith

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Dear Kevin

Thank you for your information request of 6 March 2025 seeking information
on a pollution report regarding Buller River. We will proceed to process
your request under the Local Government Official Information and Meetings
Act 1987 (LGOIMA) and will endeavour to respond to your request no later
than 03 April 2025 being 20 working days after the day your request was
received. If we are unable to respond to your request by then, we will
notify you of an extension of that timeframe.

Kind regards

Rasela Barrow​​​​
Executive Assistant |  West Coast Regional Council
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-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Smith <[8][FOI #30311 email]>
Sent: Thursday, 6 March 2025 10:27 AM
To: WCRC Information <[9][West Coast Regional Council request email]>
Subject: Official Information request - Pollution Report, Buller River
mid-Jan 2025.

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Dear West Coast Regional Council,

1. . . Could you please provide the correspondence between WCRC and other
parties, including BDC, following the Pollution report filed in mid-Jan ?

The event was originally reported to the Compliance Team by Kevin Smith,
it concerned the dredge Kawatiri and the activity in the Buller River.

Background. ......
The dredge was operating in the Westport lagoon and Buller River on 9th
and 10th Jan 2025.
The webcam footage appeared to show the dredge trickle discharging in the
Buller River. It did not cross the bar and dump at the normal site. This
activity was early morning and covered three or four trips.

Over the weekend, 11th Jan, a resident reported seeing an oil stain line
running along a stretch of the North Beach.
I spoke to him and also a former Harbour Master, before ringing and filing
the event report, possibly about 15th.

I have not received a reply or heard of any follow-up.

Yours faithfully,

Kevin Smith

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Dear Kevin,

Further to your official information request received at the Council on 6
March 2025 for correspondence following a pollution report for the Buller
River, we have processed your request under the Local Government Official
Information and Meetings Act (LGOIMA).  Below is a screenshot of the
complaints log showing the record of this report. 

 

There is no other correspondence on file.  The matter is still under
investigation and Compliance staff advise that they are following up with
the District Council in relation to resource consent conditions.

Please note that we would not normally publicly release the name of the
complainant from our records under our LGOIMA process, but in this case we
have done so given you are both the requester and the party named in the
information that is held by Council.

You have the right to seek an investigation and review by the Ombudsman of
this decision. Information about how to make a complaint is available at
[1]www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or freephone 0800 802 602.

 

 

Rasela Barrow

For and on behalf of

Darryl Lew

Chief Executive

 

Rasela Barrow​​​​
Executive Assistant |  West Coast Regional Council
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-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Smith <[9][FOI #30311 email]>
Sent: Thursday, 6 March 2025 10:27 AM
To: WCRC Information <[10][West Coast Regional Council request email]>
Subject: Official Information request - Pollution Report, Buller River
mid-Jan 2025.

Caution! This message was sent from outside your organization.

Dear West Coast Regional Council,

1. . . Could you please provide the correspondence between WCRC and other
parties, including BDC, following the Pollution report filed in mid-Jan ?

The event was originally reported to the Compliance Team by Kevin Smith,
it concerned the dredge Kawatiri and the activity in the Buller River.

Background. ......
The dredge was operating in the Westport lagoon and Buller River on 9th
and 10th Jan 2025.
The webcam footage appeared to show the dredge trickle discharging in the
Buller River. It did not cross the bar and dump at the normal site. This
activity was early morning and covered three or four trips.

Over the weekend, 11th Jan, a resident reported seeing an oil stain line
running along a stretch of the North Beach.
I spoke to him and also a former Harbour Master, before ringing and filing
the event report, possibly about 15th.

I have not received a reply or heard of any follow-up.

Yours faithfully,

Kevin Smith

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