B-5 – Area 5 - Assessment of Environmental Effects 5.8 Effects from the Storage and Use of Hazardous Substances 105 5.9 Historic Heritage Effects 106 5.10 Geochemistry and Acid Rock Drainage 107 5.11 Effects of the Gladstone Pit and TSF on Water 108 5.12 Settlement Effects 110 5.13 The Water treatment Plant Discharge and Effects on the Ohinemuri River 111 5.14 Effects oF Gladstone Pit on Aquatic Ecology 114 5.15 Effects on Terrestrial Ecology 116 5.16 Effects on Public Access and Recreation 116 5.17 Air Quality Effects 117 5.18 Conclusion 121 6. Managementand and Monitoring of Effects_________________________________123 7. Statutory Assessment _________________________________________________138 7.1 Introduction 138 7.2 Actual and Potential Effects 139 7.3 National Environmental Standards 139 7.4 National Policy Statements 140 7.5 Regional Policy Statements 146 7.6 Regional and District Plans 159 7.7 Other Matters 186 7.8 Part 2 of the Resource Management Act 1991 186 7.9 Section 105 of the Resource Management Act 1991 187 7.10 Section 107 of the Resource Management Act 1991 189 8. Conclusion __________________________________________________________190 LIST OF FIGURES Figure 1: Location of Area 5 in the context of the WNP. 2 Figure 2: Overview of Area 5. 4 Figure 3: Environmental Setting of Area 5. 6 Figure 4: Existing authorised mining activities within Area 5. 9 Figure 5: District Plan zoning of Area 5. 13 Figure 6: Allotments that comprise Area 5, and closest privately owned dwellings. 14 Figure 7: Site access points. 16 Figure 8: Archaeological and historic heritage sites (Clough 2022). 18 Figure 9: GOP archaeological/heritage sites (HDP map K4). 19 Figure 10: Voluntary replanting, around Areas 5 – 7 21
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