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Paddy Smith Limited was fined $60k in relation to effluent from a stock truck cleaning operation. Meanwhile, Hauraki farmer William Gary Brunt was fined $49,000 by Judge Brian Dwyer in the Hamilton District Court for unlawfully discharging animal effluent into the environment at his Netherton farm. An effluent holding pond was found to be overflowing into a nearby paddock by regional council staff during a routine inspection in August 2019. The council had alerted Brunt to the risks the system posed to the environment during previous inspections, a council statement said.
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Effluent overflowing from holding pond on Netherton farm. Council’s compliance manager Patrick Lynch said in both cases there was adequate infrastructure to manage effluent; however, they had been poorly managed resulting in two completely avoidable incidents.
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Effluent runoff (file image).
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The warning comes after separate incidents of pollution resulted in legal action against a Hauraki farmer and a Matamata truck wash business.
William Gary Blunt was penalised for $49,000 in the Hamilton District Court for unlawfully discharging animal effluent into the environment.
Waikato Regional Council staff found an effluent holding pond at his Netherton farm was overflowing into a nearby paddock.
The discovery came after Blunt was alerted during routine inspections of the environmental risks his system posed.
Matamata truck wash business Paddy Smith Limited was fined $60,000 in Tauranga District Court following a complaint lodged to the council in May 2020.
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Hamilton murder: Accused, 18, remanded for psychiatric assessment
29 Apr, 2021 01:19 AM
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The Waikato man was remanded in custody for further psychiatric reports to be completed. Photo / Belinda Feek
The Waikato man was remanded in custody for further psychiatric reports to be completed. Photo / Belinda Feek
An 18-year-old charged with the murder of a man in Hamilton has been remanded in custody for psychiatric assessment.
The Waikato man was granted interim name suppression when he appeared in the Hamilton District Court today.
A 43-year-old man died at a property in Aileen Pl, Nawton, yesterday.
The accused, who appeared calm and relaxed in the dock, was arrested at a Cambridge property.