With the dairy season at its peak, farmers breaching their resource consents have appeared on the West Coast Regional Council s black list for the first time in months.
Photo: RNZ / Russell Palmer
The council s compliance report for December lists four farms where the effluent rules were not being followed.
At Haupiri, a farmer was served with an infringement notice after an inspection revealed a standoff pad used through the winter was too close to a creek.
A Whataroa farmer has had a formal warning, after an effluent pond was found flowing into a paddock. Though the farm had resource consent to discharge effluent to land, the area was in flood at the time.
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