Tuakau ProteinsLtd & Envirofert in Tuakau to relocate?

Tuakau Proteins Ltd next to a meat processing plant and Envirofert further away from residential homes. 

Is it time for the relocation of Tuakau Proteins Ltd rendering plant and Envirofert Composting/Clean?fill plant?

This year in August 2018 Tuakau Proteins Ltd in Lapwood Road, Tuakau, North Waikato the Discharge to Air consent expires.
There has been a rendering plant at this site since 1972.
Their neighbour Envirofert Composting/Clean?fill in River Road/Geraghtys Road, Tuakau, North Waikato has been operating since 1999.
Many of Envirofert's consents expire March/April 2019.
Over those years many, many complaints have been made to the monitoring councils.
Tuakau Borough, Franklin District, Auckland,Waikato District and Waikato Regional.

Complaints are made concerning odours, dust, smelly trucks, truck spillages on country and residential roads, and noise etc.

Rendering for 40+ years and composting/clean?fill for 19 years.

Tuakau residents that live in the wind shadow (approx 2-5 kms) of these odour producing facilities have had their quality of life, house and property values devalued for 40+ years.

Law states that a neighbour CANNOT cause adverse affects to their neighbours or not be able to use the property as others can.

This happens regularly and councils are well aware of this.

Councils seem to take the 'so-called' experts report as truth, these people do not ever live in the area of the report they are doing!

There are always going to be upgrades but nothing seems to be fixing these issues after 40+ years.

After 40+ years of broken promises from the facilities and councils, now is the time to relocate these facilities that will have no effect on the surrounding areas.

Putting a 1km 'separation distance' or 'buffer zone', that extends over private property, not owned by these odour producing facilities, recommended by Tonkin+Taylor report, will only restrict the land that is needed for much needed housing.

Two odour producing facilities are ruining Tuakau's development and restricting the use of the Waikato River. Water sport and cycleways, and walking tracks.

Tuakau Protein Ltd is on prime land next to Waikato River and before Envirofert began operating in 1999, Envirofert's land was a natural filter for stormwater, waterways and drainage from all of Tuakau to the Waikato River. 

Now it is a dump of illegal wastes and buried plasterboard that is leaching and draining into the Waikato River and onto neighbours land. Smells rank down by the river from Envirofert.

If these 2 odour producers are needed so much, or as reports call it 'national significance',then councils need to locate them to an area that does not have an affect or restrict neighbours quality of life.

Both facilities have reported that they are struggling for product!

Time to relocate these odour producing facilities and make Tuakau into the town it should be, putting 2 odorous plants in Business Zone (Tuakau Proteins soon to be industrial zone) and Rural Zone (Envirofert) so close to residential housing/sports grounds/schools/recreation areas does not make town planning sense? 

 TUAKAU or is it 'POOAKAU', this is putting many new residents off coming to live here.

Take control today or lose it for years tomorrow!

ENVIROFERT problems continue!

Titanic, who will be at work on Monday??

Ryan Marra, Envirofert's CEO, March 2017 has gone!
Garrick Ashford, Envirofert's new projects manager 2017 has gone!
Elenka Nikoloff, Envirofert's sales and technical advisor 2017 has gone!
Kim Willoughby,Envirofert director gone!


Watercare and  Envirofert investigation allegations of illegal waste disposal!
Odour issues!
Bund and drain not built to application plans!
Illegal burying of plasterboard, now leaching and smelling!
Numerous non-compliances over 18 years!

Management and staff huge turn over!

Marra had great plans and nothing has been done, again another year of odours and no improvements.

How long are the councils going to allow this badly run place and do nothing.

Residents have been complaining to Waikato District and Regional Councils for years about Envirofert's issues and the councils have played it all down.

Now is the time to fix this!

It is important that communities are listened to and that their voice is heard, particularly with local government boundaries more than parliamentary boundaries because you are talking very much about communities! 

Tuakau Proteins Ltd & Councils dishonesty again!

Tuakau Proteins Ltd in Lapwood Road, Tuakau has lodged for a replacement consent with Waikato Regional Council. The current consent expires in August 2018.

To view the consent application go to Waikato Regional Council website>menu>community>whats happening>in search box put Significant consent applications, hearings and decisions>under application detail available for viewing> Tuakau Proteins Ltd.

It is for 'Discharge to Air'. Another 25 years of living hell!
TPL have requested no public notification on this application.
A report is required by  Tuakau Proteins Ltd (TPL).
This report 'Tuakau Proteins Ltd Resource Consent Application and Assessment of Environmental Effects (AEE) was done by David Ray of Mitchell Daysh Ltd using some Golder and Tonkin+Taylor reports also.

Reports seem to have been done on a 2 day visit. This seems to have been done in August 2017 when TPL were operating on limited capacity. 
What happens on the other 363 days that TPL operate at full production, with no for warning of a site visit? We know as we live with the emissions! We have been told that the Bio filters(for removing odours) have never been replaced. Golder seems to say that offsite odours will be minor. David Ray from Mitchell Daysh seems to say that offsite odours will be less than minor. 
Only "AFFECTED PERSONS" that live WITHIN 1km of the site are going to be consulted.
This seems to be what Waikato Regional Council make their decisions on.
Reports paid for by the applicant, with the applicants in put. A burglars input on a security system would be more honest!
There could be NO hearing and NO submissions and NON notification!
This is typical of councils making decisions for residents without consulting.
This rendering plant under numerous owners for 40+ years have had Significant Non Compliances, and Tuakau is bombarded with putrid rendering odours.
How can the Council allow this?
Envirofert has consents that expire next year,2019, will they get the same from our councils, non-notification. Numerous non compliances, illegal dumping, illegal burying, illegal after hour dumping, dust drifting over Tuakau, (that could be asbestos), leachate odours and putrid rotten garbage odours. They are going to expand, more intense odours!
Councils promote robust and transparent consultation, have your say, we are listening, all this PR marketing crap is BS, they do not listen.
If councils actually took the time to get out of their institutional mentality and listened to the real world we might have a chance of fixing these wrongly placed odour producing facilities.
Years of odour complaints have been used against the complainant and so called experts that do not live with the odours, are writing misleading reports, that look and sound right and the council take their word, not doing any research of their own.

A copy of this report can be requested from WRC -0800800401, contact Ben Murphy, Tuakau Protein resource officer.

We disagree with some of this report, so therefore it needs to be discussed at a public hearing.

It looks like any affected persons living more than 1km from the site(TPL) is being discounted, eg meetings, no input to this report, no notification (even though TPL stated at last liaison meeting that all that was present would be informed). We have been to the liaison meetings for approximately 12 years and it looks like as we live 1.5kms away from this site we are to be excluded. David Ray(author of report)states that the odour we have is less than minor. Obviously and of course does not live here!
What right has he got to put that into a report, knowing that we are the main complainants, 27 years, done diary odour reports, and even Council has admitted, 'unfortunately it is where you live', NO, it is where you have allowed this putrid stinking operation, Tuakau 
Proteins Ltd.

The dishonesty that we see is that we have lived here for 27 years, we have had putrid rancid odours from that day (1991)until now that are still on going.  Original Consent said 'No smell beyond the boundary' in those days! Now it states 'No offensive or objectionable smell beyond the boundary' that has to be confirmed by a WRC resource officer that is 1 hour away. Now nobody living further than 1km can be consulted, only an invite from the odour producers you will be able to go to the liaison meetings. Of course then they know who you are and where you live. Again this is used against the residents. A lot of residents can't or won't go to these one sided meetings.

We went through the same thing with Lowe Corporation many years ago and were feed the same BS then as now, it made no difference to the odours. Same BS of upgrades, same reporters, (Golder) and TPL still stink! Report authors seem to copy other reports knowing that these odour producing facilities cannot operate without stinking out the affected persons, 5kms away!

Affected persons that live within 1km of the site(TPL) have either given up complaining to the council or been bought off????

I'm actually a very nice person-until you piss me off! 

Living with ADVERSE Affects near a composting facility in Howlong, Australia!

UPDATE: On Thursday 10 May 2018 the EPA in Australia rang Robyn Kelly (that was taking Panmure Compost to court in July) to inform her that they were not only revoking the permit for Panmure Compost to expand, they were also cancelling the existing licence. 

Panmure Compost admitted that they could not contain the smell and would not back themsives to the new $1.5 million dollar improvements and expansion.

So it looks like if you have an authority that have the balls to pull the pin on this type of operation IT CAN BE DONE! NZ EPA say it is not in their jurisdiction,and yet Australia EPA made the right decision. GO FIGURE

New Zealand obviously don't have the balls or admit these facilities are in the WRONG PLACE!

This is a copy of a letter to the editor that was published in ‘The Boston Mail’ in Howlong, Australia.

Robyn Kelly lives approximately 3 kms away from Statewide Waste in Panmure, Victoria, Australia. The community around this waste facility were not notified.
This situation seems very similar to ours here in Tuakau, North Waikato, NZ. We were not notified about Envirofert Composting when Waikato Regional Council gave Envirofert resource consent to take food waste to make into compost  in 2009, using a Tonkin+Taylor report that stated 'off-site odour would be low'. Fast forward to 2018 and we have had 9 years of horrific putrid odours when the wind is from S-NW. Sometimes when there is no wind, it just hangs in the air.

Robyn Kelly from Panmure, Victoria, Australia's letter:

While preparing dinner on the evening of August 29, 2017, I heard that there was breaking news.
Walking into the lounge I heard that a compost site had been approved for the town of Howlong.  I cannot write here how I felt hearing this. So let me clarify a couple of things. Firstly, I had never heard of Howlong and needed to Google it. Probably similar to the people of Howlong having never heard of the little township of Panmure near Warrnambool. Well we are about to have something in common. Welcome to the world of 24-hour rancid horrific stench. You have to live this life to believe it, and we are luckier than our two neighbours who live the closest to this horror.

We are dairy farmers (not anti or pro green, too busy to care really!) and have endured the stench for some five years, absolutely loathe to voice a complaint as being country people we just didn't want to make waves. We have seen families leave the district, seen beautiful Western Victoria farms totally worthless as no one could possibly buy them as you can't live with the smell. This means our wonderful little town loses school pupils, footballers, and all that enriches a country town. It is 
beyond awful.

So here is what you can expect. Stinging eyes, sore throats, no Christmases at your place (you just wouldn't do that to your family), the actual taste of the smell getting into your stomach and making you feel sick, a once per week semi load of dead poultry being dumped and the following few days will be indescribable, no hanging clothes on the line as the smell gets into them and into your home, no assistance from the EPA (environmental protection authority) as they want to be seen to be pro-green and composting makes them look good so you get no help there, trucks entering at all hours of the day and night regardless of operating hours and especially on public holidays! You will be told that only household organic waste and the likes will utilise the facility. Of course more contracts and deals are done with various companies and you won't know what is in the back of those trucks. Speaking of trucks they will be coming from all directions, that are loud, and in a hurry.

So, if you reside within three kilometres of your new compost site that I am sure was sold to you like a modern non-smelling facility that is almost built as a favour to you, well God help you. Oh and the people who are voting for this life-wrecking facility, would they have it in their street? Of course not. Shame on them, I can assure you your lives will never be the same. I am so very sorry for those affected. You will be stuck with it with no support and no help from anyone. This is something you would not wish on your worst enemy.

Robyn Kelly, Panmure

Envirofert in Tuakau owned, operated, shareholders, directors by Andrew Bayly, now Member of Parliament for Hunua, his twin brother Paul and Gary McGuire, Tuakau local. Government departments will not help, does not look good for government with Envirofert's many non-compliances. Waikato Regional and District Councils will not help as they gave Envirofert the right to operate. Councils do not like to think they have made a huge mistake by putting this and Tuakau Protein rendering plant (Envirofert's neighbour) by residential homes. Now Councils want to put a 1 km minimum  odour separation distance around these odour producing facilities. This extends over privately owned properties that existed long before these odour producing facilities. Council state that this will not restrict the existing residents. Who will want to buy, live, or open businesses with a odour zone over their property. You would have to be mad! Councils only seem to be considering new residents not the residents that have been here way before these two facilities. 
Tuakau could be a great tourist stop, Waikato River is stunning but who wants to live or play with the ever present horrific odours, many seagulls, dirty discharges into the Mighty Waikato River? This river could have walking tracks/bike tracks from Port Waikato to Taupo with many businesses for locals and tourists. But NO the NZ government and councils would rather put odour producing and dirty toxic discharges into the river. Go figure!

Could this be Gary McGuire's latest idea? Rumours are rife?

Could this be the ‘new’ future for Envirofert Composting/Clean?fill?

Envirofert starting eel farming?
Gary Peter McGuire 40% shareholder of Envirofert tried and failed eel farming before he started Envirofert years ago. Could this be another failure??
Residents have noticed trucks entering and leaving the clean?fill site and not using the weigh bridge.
This is a requirement of Envirofert’s consent conditions to record the tonnage.


Is this being done to hide the legal and true amount that Envirofert are actually taking?

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election!

Australia councils make the right decision!

What a change? in NZ it is the other way around. Councils making decisions for non-compliant facilities and covering up the many non compliances!

The community of Howlong, NSW, Australia have been fighting to stop Cleanaway build a composting facility in their town for several years.
Many residents were against this facility but still the JRPP(joint regional hearing panel)handed down their decision in October 2017-a 3 to 1 decision in favour of Cleanaway.
Council elections were held for a new council in 2017.
Council also withdraw the land that they offered Cleanaway to develop this facility.
The new Council sacked the previous GM who had lead the campaign to allow the composting development to proceed.
December 2017 it became official, the composting facility would not go ahead.
The community of Howlong have also received letters from NSW government saying they are revising the guidelines for composting facilities near population centres.
Waikato District Council had Tonkin+Taylor odour assessment report done for Tuakau Structure Plan, in that report most of it is done by using Australian guidelines, as we have no NZ guidelines.
Does this mean that instead of recommending a 1km minimum odour zone around odour producing facilities in Tuakau, that will restrict existing and new residents, the Councils will make these odour producing facilities work to consent conditions. “No offensive or objectionable odour beyond their boundary”
Australia are now revising guidelines near population, surely NZ councils will revise their guidelines?
What do you think??

You’ve got only 3 choices in life
Give up,
Give in,
Or give it all you’ve got!

Waikato District Council get staff bonuses but rates to increase!

1. Waikato District Council increase rates by 6.4% . 26 February 2018

This was in Franklin County News January 11, 2018.

Waikato District Council bonuses, read and if you have had dealings with WDC you will get the joke.

It could become the Joke of the Year.
Could this mean our rates from WDC are to rise? Hate to tell you but I told you so!

We are extra lucky in Tuakau, not only do we get a rate increase, the council is trying to give us more odour as well. 

If there is intelligent life out there, 

bring them down to earth and

replace our councils with them?

Why couldn't our quality of life be like this every day?

Xmas day 2017 in Tuakau, North Waikato.

What a stunning, extremely hot, sunny day on 25th December 2017 was.
We had a WHOLE day of no putrid rancid odours from the odour producing facilities in Tuakau, Tuakau Protein rendering plant in Lapwood Road and Envirofert composting/clean?fill plant in River/Geraghtys Road, Tuakau.
We had NO road noise and NO smelly putrid rancid odours from the many noisey trucks that travel past our houses towards these odour producing facilities.
This could only mean that these two facilities were not working.
Oh how life could be if these two wrongly positioned and council endorsed odour producing facilities were taken out of Tuakau and located in appropriate locations, not within residential areas.
The councils in their wisdom have taken noisey smelly trucks out of going through Tuakau township and are now allowing noisey smelly trucks to travel Whangarata Road/Pokeno Road from Pokeno to Tuakau that the Council are making residential? Go figure?
Allowing these odour producing facilities that employ only a few jobs is the ruination of Tuakau, that with the right sort of people, could make Tuakau a great place to live and bring up kids.
Instead these odour producing facilities, with a Tonkin+Taylor odour assessment report, are now recommending a 1km minimum ‘separation distance’ from their odour activities.
This 1km minimum radius WOULD extend over private property that will have consequences with property values, potential buyers and quality of life! This is theft of residents biggest asset, their property while these odour producers make huge profits.
Dirty discharges into Waikato River.
Many complaints from people using the river.
Odours drifting over Tuakau, there are no odours that come from these 2 places that are pleasant.
Tuakau Proteins with many owners over 40+ years have had numerous complaints and meetings with the community.
Envirofert have had only had a few meetings but many complaints over their 18 years.
Health issues could also be associated to these 2 places?
Tuakau could be such a pleasant place to live without these odour producing facilities.
If these two odour producing facilities get this 1km odour buffer which the council are calling conservative it could mean that the odour zone could extend over the whole Tuakau.

Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others! 

Envirofert NON-COMPLIANCES AGAIN!

How many non-compliance’s are the Councils going to allow Envirofert to get away with? Are the Councils not there to protect Tuakau? Isn't that what we pay huge rates for?  The non-compliance’s started the year Envirofert started in 1999 when the owner Gary McGuire did not survey the boundaries. Then drain diversion was not built to the approved plan, Tuakau COO2 Revision 5, which is now flooding the neighbours farm, bund location was not built to the approved plan, and is actually over the boundary in the neighbours land by metres, illegal dumping on clean?fill, buried plasterboard (now causing leachate and odours) dirty discharges into river, waste closer than 50 metres to river. The list goes on when Envirofert was under the ownership and directorship of Gary McGuire(local) and Andrew Bayly(MP for Hunua), 1999-2014. New owners and directors and the non-compliances are still happening!
The Councils seem to not want to fix the non-compliances, only giving them abatement notices and a $1000.00 fine over many non-compliances. Could this be because Councils use Envirofert to get rid of their waste and don't care about the environmental damage it is doing on the land that then drains into the Waikato river.
21 November 2017- could this be another non-compliance? Residents on Geraghtys Road have noticed an increase of public car and trailer traffic with green waste going into Envirofert's entrance(geraghtys road). Resource conditions state 'No Public"?  Also noted by residents, public entering Envirofert after hours taking dumped James Hardie Board and Winstone’s plasterboard sheets! 

Envirofert have yearly audits and reviews every 3 years if required. Again why has the council not done their job instead of just asking Envirofert 'have you done this or that' and take Envirofert's word! Gary McGuire has great difficulty in working to rules and regulations. Council's have been taken for a ride by McGuire and now all the non compliances are now coming to the surface, pardon the pun! Council's have failed Tuakau! Envirofert's resource consents expire in 2019 and should not be given another 20 years  to continue with all these non compliances. It makes a mockery of consents!

A Council saying "All of these compliance rules and regulations are such a bother. We never thought that we actually had to read councils policies and procedures."
Just tick the appropriate box and that's the job done!

Envirofert video on TV1 News!

Envirofert Sales and Technical Advisor, Elenka Nikoloff states that plasterboard that is put in landfills becomes a smelly mess and does not break down.

Envirofert have taken plasterboard for many years for gypsum but have buried plasterboard on their site that has now become a smelly mess.Below are photos taken when Envirofert took plasterboard for shredding and used the gypsum. A small percentage of this plasterboard was shredded but most was buried. Envirofert sales and technical advisor is now admitting "buried plasterboard never breaks down and becomes a smelly mess" that is why Tuakauians are now living with buried plasterboard smell (rotten eggs, rotorua smell).

Wisdom understands that in a world of ecological interconnectedness there is no such thing as "away".
We don't throw things "away",  we simply put them someplace where they defile the land, foul the water, pollute the air or change the earth's atmosphere, ENVIROFERT!

UPDATE March 2018, RYAN MARRA CEO has left as well as others!

The rats are leaving the sinking ship??

Another so called expert that was gunna do this and gunna do that!


Envirofert article in the local paper 'The Post'.
February 2018, no meeting, no minutes from September 2017 meeting. This is typical of Envirofert, they never do what they say they are going to do! Gunna do this gunna do that but never happens. The new concrete pad, new receiving shed has not even been started. Marra stated it would be done this Summer. Envirofert’s consent expires in March 2019, they have to get it into Council 6 months before. Will this next 20 year consent be a non-notifiable, Council makes that decision. 

2018-Elenka Nikoloff, Envirofert sales manager and technical advisor gone!
2018-Garrick Ashford, Envirofert new project manager gone!
2018-Kim Willoughby, Envirofert director gone!

Any industry that seeks to make a profit doesn't make a HONEST profit when part of it comes at the EXPENSE of the DESTRUCTION of neighbours assets. A profit taken from others pockets isn't PROFIT, it's THEFT!

Envirofert Clean?fill/Composting facility-Are they telling lies?

On Monday night, 18 September 2017, at Whangarata Hall, Ewing Road, a Tuakau meeting was held for the community that are affected by the many issues from Envirofert composting/clean?fill operation in River Road, Tuakau. Odour/dust/pollution/smelly trucks/noisy trucks/dirty smelly discharge into Waikato River/ and numerous seagulls.

One of the many issues that was raised was the dumping of GIB Board in the clean?fill.
Ryan Marra the CEO of Envirofert stood in front of the many residents that attended this meeting and stated "we no longer take GIB Board and dump it on the clean?fill, it is shredded and the gypsum is added to the compost".
For many years, approximately from 2000-now, 6 days a week, truck/trailer loads, Envirofert have taken GIB Board to reuse and even remine, as Andrew Bayly stated.
Piles of GIB Board became a great big smelly heap as when it gets wet it gases off (hydrogen sulphide/Rotorua /rotten egg smell) and the council advised Envirofert to remove it or put under cover.
Some were shredded and reused but most was buried even though Envirofert told the council it was taken off site. Neighbours saw this buried.

The  photo below was taken on Thursday 21 September 2017. Winstone truck dumping on the clean?fill site. What do you think?? 

SOMETIMES the grass is greener on the other side because it has been fertilised by BULLSHIT!

Tuakau Community Meetings

Envirofert Compost/Clean?fill and Tuakau Protein Rendering Plant Liaison Meetings.

These meetings are like a dementia meeting, it is like nothing has happened between the last meeting and the current one. Councils seem to think every day is a new day, it is like the last 40+ and 18 years do not exist. Same old same old and nothing gets fixed? Same excuses, same failures, same questions, councils denials, Envirofert & Tuakau Proteins denials.

The plants and council seem to think that residents living in the wind shadow of these 2 odour producing facilities should live with the ever-changing upgrades.
These all should be done before these odour producing facilities are given consents.
Reports done by Tonkin&Taylor, Beca, Golder should be truthful and not rely on the facilities input just because they pay for the reports.
Councils should research the affects on communities before giving consents and then not monitor or enforce as this seems to be the normal. Just wait for complaints, first 10 phone calls, Council seem obliging but then as more complaints are recorded the complainant becomes a pain in the neck and problem to the council.
These odour producing facilities should NOT be closer than 10 kms to residential homes.

Tuakau Protein (was Waikato By-Products,Graeme Lowe Waikato, Waikato By-Products) and their neighbour Envirofert Composting and Clean?fill have meetings for the Tuakau community to discuss with management and councils the issues, (odour,dust,pollution,smelly & uncovered trucks).

Tuakau Protein have had 6 monthly meetings for many years because their consent conditions state that they have to.
Envirofert Compost/Clean?fill do not have the same consent conditions.

In July 2017 the community received a letter from Tim Clarke, (the person that has been holding these meetings with Tuakau Proteins for approximately the last 6 years), that Envirofert would be holding a meeting on Monday 24 July 2017 at 6pm at the Whangarata Hall.

Tim Clarke stated in the letter that 'this letter has been sent to 400 addresses in close proximity to the Envirofert plant.'

Some residents have told us that they certainly did not receive this letter and some live right next door on Geraghtys Road?
How many other people did not receive this letter that live close to Envirofert and why did these residents not receive this letter?

Envirofert meetings seem to have stopped after only 2 meetings.


     
Higher education is just a business
Learning can be done anywhere!

Council's rules under fire 'THEM VERSUS US'.

Article in 'The Post Newspaper', many ratepayers have stories about the 'culture' of council's in New Zealand. The university training of staff is with an institutional mentality, not in the real world and also with an open checkbook mentality. Definitely with a 'them versus us' attitude and treat ratepayers like they have no brains. Even when they are proven wrong they still will not fix problems or issues (if they did they would not have well paid jobs). Councils are there to protect the community and environment,that is definitely not the case. The council's bend over backwards to cover-up their mistakes even to the point of misleading words and not answering questions. The ratepayers pay their wages that are substantial and in the end as a ratepayer you have no rights! Councils promote 'Have Your Say' and 'We Hear You' but then don't listen. Councils most used words are 'robust & transparent conversations' and that is misleading and lies. The decisions are already made by the time public become involved with submissions. Submissions are a form of finding out what 'Joe Public' wants and then they counteract joe public's concerns. Can someone provide documents that we the public have actually changed the councils minds on anything? Councils have already made up their minds, ticked the boxes and been lobbied by the few that will make profits! Who can afford to take the councils to Environmental Court when we the public are paying the council to take us to court, doubledipping? The council's rules and regulations are to make sure that we the ratepayers FAIL!
Surely this is a human rights issue. Councils seem to discriminate ratepayers over consent holders. 

You know our name, not our story. You've heard what we have done, not what we have been through.

Envirofert clean?fill and Waikato Regional Council-Part1 & Part 2.

THE POST NEWSPAPER ARTICLE. 2017.

NOT A PURE CLEANFILL, THIS WAS HAPPENING WHEN ENVIROFERT WAS OWNED AND OPERATED BY ANDREW HENRY BAYLY (NOW MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT FOR HUNUA) AND GARY PETER MCGUIRE. 1999-2014.
Waikato Regional/District Council's seemed to have given special treatment to Envirofert. Could this be because of the many issues that have been found over the years 1999-2017 involving WRC and WDC and Envirofert? Many residents have complained to the council's, (photos and videos), over dodgy loads on the clean?fill site and the councils seem to want to cover it up, saying that they have allowed it. The residents are unable to prove these loads as the council's words are changed to fit the crimes?? We the residents can only report what we see and smell and then it is up to the councils to monitor and enforce. This is only done when a complaint is followed up and that is not often.  Drain diversion has not been constructed to the approved and signed off  Barker & Associates plans(1998)and the clean?fill bund location has been built on the boundary instead of 10 metres from the boundary to the approved and signed off Barker & Associates plans (1998). This was bought to the attention to the Councils that will not fix this problem. 

We would say that we are sorry for the councils complete incompetence in grasping reality but we can't say that with a straight face!

Why does 'Green' have to smell so Brown?

 COMMUNITIES FLOORED BY STENCH OF 'ENVIRONMENTAL' PROCESSING SYSTEMS

Residents in Auckland and Christchurch say council-endorsed environmental waste facilities are getting up their noses, making people feel sick and driving property values down.

In the North Waikato township of Tuakau, the privately owned Envirofert Ltd facility on River/Geraghtys Road turns big city food waste into compost, sending clouds of foul-smelling gases wafting across Tuakau, depending on the wind direction on any given day.

In Christchurch the gently-named "Living Earth" composting plant in Bromley, a public-private partnership between the Christchurch City Council and Beijing Capital, is gassing an estimated 25,000 residents unfortunate enough to live in the wind-shadow of the environmental plant.

In both cases, residents say it's the tip of the iceberg now starting to emerge all over the country and threatening our clean, green image as locals and tourists get a whiff of the real cost of recycling waste.

"Gollum's buttocks"

"If New Zealand is Middle Earth," says Tuakau resident Lou Dromgool, "then Envirofert Ltd is Gollum's buttocks! Seriously, if Weta Workshops could bottle this gas and figure out how to get it into cinemas, you'd have the makings of a 'smell-o-vision' horror movie."

Dromgool has good reason to be cynical. The Envirofert plant was given planning permission to build on the boundary of existing housing, and it's been stinking residents out of their homes for years.

"There are days it's so bad that even the cat won't go outside," exclaims Dromgool. "The Waikato Regional Council set up an 0800 odour complaints line, but it's like dealing with Basil Fawlty. Nothing gets resolved, absolutely nothing gets resolved."

"I had a meeting with the Waikato Regional Council CEO and his officials. The councils response to me at this meeting was that I should take the matter to the Ombudsman office and Environment Court. They were not interested in trying to sort this problem out, just saying 'keep phoning the 0800 number for odour complaints'. I have done this for years and nothing gets done."

"Not NIMBYs"

Down at Bromley in Christchurch, community spokesman Geoffrey King says Cantabrians are experiencing the same treatment.

"We believe it affects 25,000 residents who live in the wind-shadows and the fumes can be smelt approximately 5 kilometres away. The plant is within the city boundary and is 500 metres from the nearest residential zone.The local school has had to close due to the odours."

King says it's much bigger than a 'NIMBY' (not in my backyard or next it might be you) issue.

"No one is against environmental processing plants that recycle waste, but we have town planning laws for a reason. New Zealanders invest their life savings in their homes, and councils should not have the right to put industrial facilities so close to residential properties. If you're a big Chinese corporation wanting to make a bit of money, then go and buy a piece of land beyond the city fringes that's big enough to absorb your waste vapours without affecting the lives of thousands of families with kids."

"No business activity should impinge on someone's quality of life and we have the right to enjoy going about normal activities in our houses without having to restrict outdoor activities and keep doors and windows closed especially in the hot summer months."

"We are prisoners in our own homes that we have worked damned hard to get."

"The residents have a liaison group meeting with the Christchurch City Council owner's, Environment Canterbury (ECAN) regulator and Beijing Capital (Living Earth/Waste Management) the operator, every 3 months. Nothing is achieved, there are more arguments about procedure and the circus just goes round and round in ever increasing circles. If our opponents are losing the battle they change the rules. We are on a hiding to nothing at the moment and the stress is taking it's toll on some residents," says Geoffrey King.

"Both plants, Envirofert and Living Earth commenced in 2009 taking food waste to make into compost, we are soon to go into our 8th year of this living hell. The Resource Consent conditions issued by councils state 'NO ODOUR BEYOND THE BOUNDARY'. Waikato Regional Council that monitor Envirofert are 1 hour away from Tuakau and are not always available to assess odours.

As affected communities began to network using social media and blogs, they found other communities around New Zealand facing similar issues.

"If you are an ordinary resident or private business wanting to chop down a tree or stick up an advertising hoarding, the full weight of the Resource Management Act is brought down on you," says Tuakau's Lou Dromgool. "But if you go to the local council and wrap yourself up in 'green', the officials fall over themselves to let you break every rule in the book and devalue properties by tens of thousands of dollars in the process."

Te Maunga in Tauranga, Uriti in Taranaki, Te Mata Mushrooms in Havelock North, these are just some of the odorous facilities that have been put in the wrong places, like Envirofert and Living Earth. Make the developer purchase properties with bigger buffers. Do not let the town planners change the rules many years later and let these odour producing facilities encroach onto private land that have no say in the council's decisions. Why should ordinary New Zealanders have to subsidise greedy developers?

"Last time I looked, we the people paid property rates, and the councils are employed by us to look after our interests. It's time they remembered who pays their wages. They work for us, not the other way around."

I offered my opponents a deal:
"if they stop telling lies about me,
I will stop telling the truth about them".
~Adlai Stevenson, campaign speech,1952..... 







  

Tuakau Structure Plan

                         Tuakau Structure Plan

   or should this be Tuakau Destruction Plan or POOAKAU potential odour zones?

 Report by Tonkin+Taylor for Waikato District Council 2015

Assessment of Air Quality Effects and Separation Distances

UPDATE: RECEIVED THE TUAKAU PROTEINS DISCUSSION FORUM MINUTES FROM THE MEETING HELD ON 3 APRIL 2017.

Under the District Plan Heading  resident asked 'if the odours are contained and improving why are 'you guys' (tuakau protein) controlling what we can do with our property? This resident was told by WDC planner concerning the Tuakau Structure Plan, that the restriction on subdivision was because of the two businesses (Envirofert and Tuakau Proteins) who control  the whole of the south of Tuakau and they don't want people to move in because of the reverse sensitivity issue.

So, to the people in Tuakau that have bought land, house or property in the vicinity of these odour producing facilities, the council has just shit on you. To subdivide your land, sell your existing property you will now have odour zones on your Certificate of Title, restricting the potential buyers. For the people that bought here way before these two odour producing facilities you have now potentially lost huge dollar value of your land. These two odour producing facilities have resource consents that are monitored by the councils (excuse me for laughing, he he he) Consent condition "NO ODOUR BEYOND THE BOUNDARY" and now these smelly businesses are asking for 1km MINIMUM of recommended air quality separation distance from residential homes. Tuakau Proteins area under many owners, has been operating for approximately 40+ years, Envirofert started with "land-farming" in 1998 by Gary McGuire (Tuakau local), who boasted around town, 'you get a consent to do A and then when you get the consent you do A,B,C,D..........X,Y,Z. 


This report (picture above) was done by Tonkin+Taylor for Waikato District Council, dated August 2015,  because a number of industrial and infrastructure activities have the potential to discharge dust and/or odour in the Tuakau area.
If you live within these circles Tuakau Protein and Envirofert Composting are looking at introducing 'reverse sensitivity' or 'buffer zone' within these circles. Strange as Envirofert are NOT in the Tuakau Structure Plan but can still put odour buffer zones on existing properties? surely that is illegal?
Tuakau Proteins rendering plant (under 1 year) previously Graeme Lowe Waikato/Waikato By-Products and Envirofert (1999 clean?fill & 8 years of food waste composting) have requested this. Brinks in Ryders Road has numerous complaints and T+T report states that WRC said they have no complaints. Really! not what the locals say, or is this an area that does not want a  potential 'odour zone' put on the plans that could affect property values/potential buyers to their properties?? 
Tuakau Proteins plant has been a rendering plant for 40+ years under many different names. 40+ years of putrid rendering odours, trucks smelling, trucks dropping loads, discharge water to the Waikato River that could be contaminated, smells of dead animals, fish, and all the smells that go with rendering plants.
Envirofert composting/clean?fill/food destruction/smelly leachate ponds, odours many indescribable, food waste and destruction of food/ fat recovery are like having a open rotten garbage bin on your property any time, any duration.
Tuakau Proteins rendering plant circle is in purple and extends over many properties.
Envirofert composting plant is in the yellow circle and extends over properties and land which may be developed into housing. The circle around Envirofert is incorrect as anywhere within their boundary is a potential odour zone not just from the composting area.
Composting, Fonterras depackaging shed, leachate ponds, irrigation of leachate on to their land,buried whiteboard that when wet gives off hydrogen sulphide (rotten egg smell).
Now they want an extra kilometre, minimum, and encroach onto your land, saying that the community is stopping them from expanding their operations. 
What about them encroaching onto our lands and stopping us from expanding??
The councils seem to encourage this! Listening to the facilities and not the community that live around these odour producing facilities. Non-notifiable changes are made regularly!
Tonkin+Taylor did a report for Envirofert, Odour assessment for 74 Geraghtys Road, Tuakau, in 2009 for Envirofert because of a S127 change to a resource consent allowing Envirofert to take food waste for compost.
It stated then....while the existing separation distance at the site is less than the recommended separation distance (800m vs 1,000m), the separation distance guidelines are only designed to be a quick and easy assessment tool for identifying the potential for odours from an individual site and when met, they indicate odour assessment would typically not be required. Therefore, the guideline confirms that the preparation of a site specific odour assessment for the site was appropriate. Yeah right! another report from so-called experts that do not have to live with the putrid odours! Do a report and walk away and the councils just tick the relevant box!
Summary: (of the report)The proposed works involve the addition of a food waste composting facility at the existing composting site. ........provided the procedures listed in the SMP (site management plan) are adequately implemented it is considered that the potential for off-site adverse odour effects is LOW.

LOW! LOW! Not when you are living with putrid rotten food waste odours, even LOW odours get into washing, curtains, furnishings and ruin your quality of life. Envirofert composting has emitted putrid, rotten food waste odours since 2009 over Tuakau and surrounding area and it is definitely not LOW and Tuakau Proteins rendering plant odours also affect the use of properties causing adverse effects.

Now after many years of reports and now a new one from Tonkin+Taylor 2015 (surely this is a conflict of interest when they did the original report for Envirofert in 2009), Envirofert and Tuakau Protein want to encroach their odours even further onto neighbouring properties.
What happened to the off site odour effects would be LOW in 2009, was that a lie!!!
Home and landowners will be restricted by only certain people that would buy the land and houses because of having a 'potential odour zone' on council plans.
Immediately you lose on your property values, limit the potential buyers.
Tuakau could end up with residents not caring about their living conditions that will affect the long term residents.
Homeowners and landowners that have bought many years ago now find the council and these odour producing facilities wanting to extend a 1000 metre buffer zone from their odorous activities and encroach onto private neighbouring  properties restricting the owners.
This is not reverse sensitivity but a misdirected resource consent approval by the 'so-called experts'. These facilities should not be there or have outgrown their activities and properties.
The home and landowners are described as 'sensitive' by the 'so-called experts', councils and the odour producing facilities.
Original Resource Consents were issued by the Franklin/Waikato Councils with the condition that 'no objectionable or offensive odour beyond the (facility) boundary', and now the odour producing facilities want to encroach way over their boundaries into neighbouring properties who are going to lose on property values and quality of life.
Written in the New Zealand Journal of Environmental Law is.....'The condition is placed in a covenant or easement and registered on the certificate of title, ensuring successors in title have specific notice of requirement, and are bound by it.'
So when you want to sell your house/land, and the lawyer does a search of the title it will have that your house/land in an odour zone!
If these odour producing facilities owned the complete air quality separation distance, i.e the complete circle in diagram, and then sold on the land for other purposes this would be acceptable. People that purchase the land that falls within the circle then have the knowledge of the 'odour zone' but to put these restrictions on neighbouring properties that have been in this area way before these odour producing facilities is MORALLY WRONG and THEFT of the biggest asset in many people's lives.
This requirement of having a potential 'odour zone' when selling your property is already being applied, and this is before Tuakau Structure Plan submissions have even been seen by 'independent' commissioners.
Surely this sets a precedent that all residents will have this 'odour zone' on the councils plans?? and council has taken the odour producing facilities request and applied it!
Is this legal or honest?

This email was sent to Jenny Simpson from Tonkin+Taylor who did the report for Waikato District Council,Jane McCartney and David Totman planners of Waikato District Council, Nick Smith Ministry of Environment, and Paula Bennett Ministry of Local Government.
Not one of them had the decency to reply. 

Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies, history has no place for them!












My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what is really going on to be scared. P.J. Plauger.

Envirofert Plans 1999-BARKER & ASSOCIATES/TILSLEY ASSOCIATES

Envirofert Plans 1999-Barker & Associates-Planning Consultancy and Tilsley Associates-Engineering Services were responsible for this plan that was presented at Enviroferts application hearing for a clean fill in Tuakau (1999) and was approved and signed off by the Commissioners and Franklin District now Waikato District Council and Environment Waikato now Waikato Regional Council. Paperwork and consents relate to this plan TUAKAU COO2/Revision 5.Councils have changed to suit wrong locations.

Prior to the cleanfill being established, this boundary was flat and all water drained towards the Mighty Waikato River. Envirofert was given the right by councils to put a bund on the boundary which has basically put a dam there and now the neighbours land is flooding. This was pointed out to the commissioners at the hearing in a submission by the neighbours. Councils failed to monitor that Envirofert had built the bund in the wrong location and build the Envirofert drain at the base of the bund for runoff.

This plan is very clear as to where the drain and bund was to be built. 
The boundary is the line with long strokes with 2 short strokes, the drain is the dotted line (marked 'existing clean water drains') exiting from the neighbours and entering Enviroferts property.
A 7 metre wide access strip was for maintenance. This was not done by Envirofert owners, Gary McGuire (local) and Andrew Bayly (now MP for Hunua).

Had the drain and bund been built in the approved place and been built to the engineering specifications that Tilsley Associates designed it for and was to oversee the construction, it would be doing its job, instead it is built on and over the boundary with no drain.Draining into neighbours drain.

Councils failed to monitor this also. Councils failed to make sure Gary McGuire built the bund and drain in the approved plan location.

Now Envirofert say they have a letter from Barker & Associates to say there was a 'draft error on the plan'.
There was no error on the plan, this was signed off at the hearing by the 2 Councils  (Waikato District & Waikato Regional)and Envirofert.
What has been built on the ground is the ERROR, built and owned by Gary McGuire (no engineering  qualifications 1999-2013) and Andrew Bayly(now Member of Parliament for Hunua) and was to be overseen by Robert Tilsley from Tilsley Associates in Pukekohe.
Gary McGuire built the bund in the wrong location. Robert Tilsley did no engineering reports on the drain or bund construction.The plan is very clear as to how this drain and bund was to be constructed.

The latest is that Envirofert has additional information that is with their solicitors being reviewed. Both councils have admitted that Tuakau COO2-Revision 5 is the plan that was signed off by the authorities.

 This clearly shows on the approved and signed off plan that there were 5 Revisions of Tuakau/C002 done and the reasons for them.
Envirofert clean?fill has been built to NONE of these Revisions.

The resource consent that was issued by Environment Waikato now Waikato Regional Council #102301 states Activity Authorised: Divert the drain that flows westwards across the cleanfill site so that it flows south along an existing drain. As this was a consent before the cleanfill was operating, the drain used to go through the proposed cleanfill, when the bund was to be built another drain was to be constructed to  take runoff from the bund
This explains that the drain diversion consent is for the exit point on the approved plan, as the above plan shows. This is the existing exit point before the clean?fill was operating, that went from the Dromgool property exit point and ran through the middle of the now existing clean?fill. Now the bund is built in the wrong place without the 7 metre setback for maintenance and the diversion of the drain that was not built to the approved plan as seen above on the plan 
The plan clearly shows that the exit point of the drain (part of the Franklin-Waikato Tuakau Swamp Drain Scheme)  leaves the neighbours boundary (middle of boundary) enters Enviroferts boundary and then to follow around the 'new key bund' had the bund been built in the correct location. This drain was part of the Tuakau Drainage Scheme which Envirofert have dammed and now the neighbours land is flooded.The exit point for the drain that the councils and Envirofert call the 'drain diversion' and was built by Gary MCGuire (owner 1999-2013) who had no engineering qualifications, is about where the proposed site offices was planned on the plan above.As you can see on the plan there is no drain drawn for an exit point there, but the plan clearly shows the exit point of the existing drain that was to be used. 
The bund is built on the boundary and in some places over, so no room for a drain to be constructed in Enviroferts property. Drainage from the clean fill and bund now drains onto the neighbours property and Waikato Regional Council even changed the height of the bund and cleanfill in 2010. No engineering reports were done even though the cleanfill original engineering reports are for 2.5 metres for the height. This is extra height and weight on swamp land. 
When are the councils going to admit to all their mistakes and fix this huge mistake by Envirofert, instead of wasting ratepayers money?
Fix it now before the pollution, contamination and the flooding of the neighbours property gets even worse and in years to come will become an environmental disaster!
Because the councils failed to monitor Envirofert and Envirofert did not build the clean?fill to plan they are all running for cover and blaming each other.

COMPOST IS DRIVEN BY PROFIT MARGINS!