SUBSTANTIVE DOCUMENTS return to index These Model protocols are germane to the following substantive documents: Waikato Regional Council 2 On Site Sewage (operative from 11 July 1994) Bay of Plenty Regional Council Proposed On-Site Effluent Treatment Regional Plan ISSN 1170 9022 Health Department Victoria Septic Tanks Code of Practice Feb. 1992 return to index Alan Graham, Waste Technology Group, MAF, Invermay Modern Septic Tank System Technology for Improved Rural-Urban Sewage Management Cook's Beach/ Ferry Landing Sewage - Issues and Feasibility Regarding On-Site Treatment/Disposal Prepared for Thames-Coromandel District Council June 1992 Protocol for Evaluating Cook's Beach Properties for Selection of Appropriate Septic Tank Soil Absorption Systems Prepared for Thames-Coromandel District Council Alan Graham, Waste Solutions Ltd, Invermay Agricultural Centre * Cooks Beach On-Site Sewage Proposal Prepared for Environment Waikato November 1994 Ian W. Gunn, Senior Lecturer, Department of Civil and Resource Engineering, The University of Auckland. Cooks Beach Sewage Disposal On-Site Wastewater Disposal for Longterm Wastewater Servicing at Cooks Beach Prepared for Mercury Bay Community Board April 1992 * Cook's Beach On-Site Sewage Proposal Review of Management Plan and Model Protocol for Compliance with Requirements of Environment Waikato Rules Prepared for Environment Waikato 21 November 1994 Richard Davies, Senior Environmental Health Officer, Dunedin City Council. * Report To Cooks Beach Ratepayers Association: Appropriateness of Septic Tank Based On-Site Disposal Systems As Options for Cook Beach And Ferry Landing Residential Communities. August 1992 Cooks Beach Ferry Landing Working Party. Summary of Conclusions and Recommendations for the Areas Known as Cooks Beach and Ferry Landing. February 1992 Woodward-Clyde. Ground Disposal of Effluent at Cooks Beach. Prepared for Thames-Coromandel District Council December 1991 Tonkin & Taylor Cooks Beach Sewerage Studies; Reviews and Comments 1990 - 1992 Dunedin City Council On-Site Disposal of Effluent - Use of Multiple-Chamber Tank Systems and new Disposal Field Designs. 1992 ENVIRONMENT WAIKATO TECHNICAL REPORTS COOKS BEACH MAY TO JUNE 1996 Pattle Delamore - May 1996 Hadfield Review - May 1996 McDonald Report - May 1996 Landcare Report - June 1996 Review of Environment Waikato Officers Reports on the on-site wastewater disposal option for Cook's Beach - April 1997 for Cook's Beach and Ferry Landing Ratepayers Association by Ian Gunn Statement of Evidence in the matter of Thames Coromandel District Council Resource Management Strategy - February 1998 by Ian Walter Gunn return to index ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS These protocols comprise a synthesis of the literature and various works, especially those undertaken by the Environmental Health Section of the Dunedin City Council in association with the Waste Technology Group of the Invermay Agricultural Centre together with that of Ian Gunn of the School of Engineering of the University of Auckland. The considerable commitment and time freely given by the Working Party and members of the Cook's Beach and Ferry Landing Ratepayers Association, Trish and Bill Crombie, Roger McMillan and Harold Larsen has been essential to the consideration of this developing methodology by governmental agencies. Many thanks must go to the public officials, especially Richard Davies who have helped to review the technical detail and have supported and encouraged these efforts despite the unwarranted opposition of some of their collegues! Particular thanks are due to Regional Councillor Evan Penny and District Councillor Bob Birch for their sane and decisive guidance and support. As editor and collator I am personally indebted to my former tutors, my late father, Fred Evans and the late Douglas Bush, Fellows of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors who were designing and installing 'modern on site systems' sixty years ago! For day to day support and advice as well as all the proofreading thanks go to Bert and Merle Jones, John and Lucille Moffet, Pat and Doug Greenhill and Judy Clarke amongst others. I hope this effort by the people of Cook's Beach and Ferry Landing will help in some way to demonstrate and advance environmental awareness. Robert Evans Secretary to the Cook's Beach and Ferry Landing Ratepayers Association February 1995 ELECTRONIC PUBLICATION FOR CONTINUING REVIEW Proposed amendments to this text will be entered at the discretion of the editor in brackets[ ] until such time as unanimity prevails at the peer review group and amendments are sanctioned by Environment Waikato. Please address any comments for referral to the review group to the Editor - Robert Evans (email: purestech@purangi.co.nz - telephone +64 7 8665346 & facsimile +64 7 8662948) together with feedback on this site and requests for advertising or services. Permission is granted to reproduce this document in any form subject to the acknowledgement of Robert Evans and PuresTECH and The Cook's Beach and Ferry Landing Ratepayers Association Incorporated and the copyright of any systems suppliers herein contained. NOTE TO 1998 ELECTRONIC PUBLICATION FOR CONTINUING REVIEW Subsequent to publication of the 1995 edition, a Certificate of Compliance was requested by the Cooks Beach and Ferry Landing community on the basis of these protocols, so that through their implementation, water and wastewater issues could be managed in an environmentally sustainable manner in the long term. The Certificate was presented at a well attended public meeting at Cooks Beach by the Regional Councillor Evan Penny and the community was congratulated by the District Mayor Alasdair Thompson. Thus has ensued a protracted wrangle that is at this time under litigation. The Thames Coromandel District Council and Mayor elected in October 1995 has seen fit to encourage the on-site methodology in many unsewered areas with the notable exception of Cook's Beach and Ferry Landing. As a consequence, the technical and resource management issues relating to methodologies for wastewater management continue to be extensively reexamined. Two precious fundamentals, water quality and democracy, continue to diminish. Robert Evans Purangi River March 1998 return to index