RIVER SPRAYING RESOURCE CONSENTS IN DISTRICT

Consent holder DOC & Land Information NZ Council Golden Bay RM140869 RM060684 RM060892 RM060870

Duration 2007 - 2017 2007 - 2027 2016 - 2031 Areas Marginal strip, lands Crown riverbed, marginal River beds, banks and adjacent to water bodies strip, road reserves fairways, aerial and ground spraying Active Glyphosate 635g/L Glyphosate 650g/L Glyphosate 360g/L ingredients Metsulfuron-methyl Triclopyr 600g/L Metsulfuron-methyl approved 600g/L Picloram 100g/L Triclopyr butoxyethyl Triclopyr 600g/L ester Clopyriad 300g/L penetrants Boost & Silmax Buffer zones 250m upstream 500m upstream 500m upstream aerial water intakes only. Note, no aerial spraying in Takaka River. Buffer zones None stipulated. None stipulated. 5m aerial spraying. NZS next to water NZS 8409:2004 no buffer recommends 300m buffer bodies zone potential drift hazard zone aerial no shelter belt! high. Recommends without shelter 10m distance from 2m ground spraying sensitive area.

No spray times 2 hours 2 hours 6 hours glyphosate, rain forecast 24 hours metsulfuron- methyl and triclopyr Wind speed None stipulated????? Advice note. As a guideline, spraying should not be carried out when wind speed exceeds 3m/s.

There are two resource consents for road side spraying which spray all culvert inlet and outlets (5m minimum), bridge approaches, water tables, surface water channels and road drains. Active ingredients approved include. Glyphosate (360g/L), Metsulfuron methyl 600g/L, Terbuthylazine, Picloram/Triclopyr (Tordon Brushkiller XT), Triclopyr, Norflurazon, Oryzaline, Simazine and Haloxyfop. Dilution rate commonly used, 1L Glyphosate (360g/L), 10g Metsulfuron methyl 600g/L Pulse penetrant 100mls per 100L water. This will leach into rivers after rain. Picloram/Triclopyr is used on gorse and blackberry on banks. Picloram being very mobile and run-off into

drains.

The river resource consents either stipulate, “Herbicides shall not be sprayed directly over, onto or into water and the spray plume shall be directed away from water as far as practicable” or “Where practical, spraying shall be directed away from surface water to minimise the risk of spray drifting onto any surface water.” The NZS p102 states that, “Research shows that vapour drift occurs mostly as secondary drift.”

Registration and approval of herbicides. From 1979 to 2004 E.G. Vallianatos worked at the USEPA. His book, Poison Spring, focuses on pesticides, herbicides, and other chemicals used on farms and in homes, lawns and in forests. There are some quotes from this book. “The EPA offered me the documentary evidence to show the dangerous disregard for human health and the environment in the U.S. government, and the industries it has been sworn to oversee. Sometime in 1973 or 1974 the USEPA made the decision not to evaluate the safety testing data submitted by pesticide manufacturers. As a rule, these industries lobby tirelessly for the dissolution of the country’s environmental bureaucracy and for the return to the nine-teeth century version of unregulated “free enterprise”. Their representatives arrive for EPA meetings well dressed and well prepared to defend their interests. They know how to play the game: they come to meetings with slides, computer programs, fancy jargon, and colourful handouts, pretending to deliver a scholarly exercise in the manner of a college seminar or a defence of a doctoral thesis. Taking their cue, EPA staffers behave like students eager to learn from their chemical masters, allowing them to go on with their spurious presentations and never challenging their outrageous claims. EPA staffers routinely cut and paste studies conducted by the very industries they are supposed to be regulating-and rubber stamp industry conclusions with the imprimtur of government. The truth is most toxic chemicals enter the market without ever being tested for health and environmental effects, and this is just the way the chemical industry likes it. Companies hire professional writers to compose articles favourable to their products. Company bosses then find doctors and scientist to attach their names to the article to make it appear as if their own research supported the findings. Such fake “scientific” articles then somehow pass the “peer review” process of scientific journals and become the very text influencing public policy.”

Issues I have Any registration of any herbicide from the USEPA is suspect. Combinations of herbicides are not tested for toxicity and environmental impact.. The conditions of the resource consents do not protect the integrity of the water body. There is no protection for fish species most of which are endangered. Water samples are taken 30 mins after aerial spraying but I have no idea when water samples are taken for DOC and LINZ. Then there is FYO.

Hope you find this useful. Not sure that water intakes is relevant though. If you want to delete it highlight the row, go up the top to tables, and click on delete row.

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