Applicant: Southdown Holdings Limited
Address: C/- Mitchell Partnerships, PO Box 489, Dunedin 9054, Attn: Craig McKibbin
Southdown Holdings Limited has applied for resource consents for activities associated with dairy farms at Glen Eyre Downs, Quailburn Road, Omarama, approximately 10 kilometres from the intersection of State Highway 8, located on Section 1 SO 327927.
Southdown Holdings Limited proposes to establish six stand alone dairy farms on the property with a maximum of 7,000 cows. Cows will be housed in cubicle stables from March to October, and for 12 hours a day from November to February.
Cow effluent will be scraped out from the dairy shed and cubicles. The solids will be separated out and stored on a concrete pad and spread onto land in summer. Liquid effluent will be stored in ponds and discharged onto land in the summer via the proposed irrigation system for the property. Six effluent storage ponds are proposed (one per farm), with each pond having a capacity for up to 22,000 cubic metres of effluent. The ponds will be of earth construction and lined with an impermeable geotechnical layer.
The following resource consents have been applied for:
CRC100224 – a discharge permit to discharge solid effluent onto land and up to 560,000 litres per day of diluted dairy effluent onto land.
CRC100480 – a land use consent to store dairy effluent in ponds.
CRC100481 – a land use consent for a stockholding pad (the cubicle stables).
CRC100482 – a land use consent to excavate land to create effluent storage ponds.
CRC101542 – a discharge permit to discharge contaminants to air from the storage of animal effluent in ponds and the housing of cows in cubicle stables.
A duration of 35 years is sought for each of the above consents.
Submissions must be received by Environment Canterbury not later than 5 p.m. Friday 18th December 2009.