Infringement notices
An infringement notice is a written notice of an alleged infringement offence under the Resource Management Act, issued in accordance with the Summary Proceedings Act.
An infringement notice requires the payment of a fee of an amount fixed by regulations. Payment of the fine does not lead to the recording of a criminal conviction.
Infringement notices are suitable for responding quickly to relatively moderate offences that do not warrant prosecution.
Infringement notice~~
| Name of offender | Incident Date | Amount | Incident | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Solvent Rescue (1999) Ltd | 12/12/2022 | $750.00 | Discharged contaminants namely but not limited to oil and other hazardous waste onto or into land in circumstances where it may enter water. | Christchurch |
| McCarthy, Robert | 30/11/2022 | $500.00 | Stock in waterway resulting in pugging of the bank and bed. | Halswell, Christchurch |
| Prime Environmental Ltd | 28/11/2022 | $750.00 | Discharged contaminants, namely milk and fat residue onto or into land in circumstances where it may enter water. | Christchurch |
| Rossendale Holdings Ltd | 21/11/2022 | $750.00 | Discharged contaminants, namely sediment-laden water in breach of condition 19 of Resource Consent CRC181139 | Halswell, Christchurch |
| Pareora Dairy Farming Ltd | 21/10/2022 | $750.00 | Discharged contaminants, namely dairy effluent which ponded onto land, and which may enter water in breach of conditions 5 of Resource Consent CRC161537. | Saint Andrews |
| Steele, Brad Anton | 20/10/2022 | $300.00 | Burning contaminants | Loburn |
| Steele, Brad Anton | 20/10/2022 | $750.00 | Discharged contaminants - demolition waste namely but not limited to metals, treated timber plastics and other materials onto or into land where it may enter water. | Loburn |
| Hansen Total Contracting Ltd | 14/10/2022 | $750.00 | Discharged contaminants, namely concrete and sediment onto or into land in circumstances where it may enter water. | Christchurch |
| Te Kohaka o Tuhaitara Trust | 5/10/2022 | $500.00 | Diverted water from a wetland - undertook works to open a drainage channel from the wetland to a drain which links to the Kairaki Stream | Woodend |
| Christchurch Ready Mix Concrete Ltd | 29/09/2022 | $750.00 | Discharged contaminants, namely concrete and grease onto or into land which may enter water | Woodend |
| Bishop, Daniel Wayne | 23/09/2022 | $500.00 | Stock in waterway resulting in pugging of the bank and bed. | Kurow |
| Street & Cook Construction Company Ltd | 27/09/2022 | $750.00 | Discharged contaminants, namely paint and plaster wash water into and onto land which may enter water | Christchurch |
| A1 Diggers Limited | 14/09/2022 | $750.00 | Discharged contaminant namely sediment-laden water onto or into land in circumstances which may enter water. | Christchurch |
| Miller, Brian | 10/09/2022 | $300.00 | Discharged contaminants into the air, namely particulates in the form of smoke, when specified waste was burnt, namely but not limited to green pine, metal waratahs, wire and plastic on an outdoor fire in breach of Rules 7.14 and 7.7 of the Canterbury Air Regional Plan. | Christchurch |
| Tuffnell Drainage Ltd | 15/09/2022 | $750.00 | Discharged a contaminant, namely sediment-laden water and sediment onto or into land in circumstances which may enter water | Leeston |
| Greg Donaldson Contracting Ltd | 8/09/2022 | $1,000.00 | Discharged contaminants into air from an industrial/trade premises, when items were burnt namely vegetation, trade waste, painted wood and wet straw bales. | Tinwald |
| Scott Lilly Developments Ltd | 6/09/2022 | $750.00 | Discharged contaminants, namely sediment onto land in circumstances which may enter water | Woodend |
| Luisetti Properties Ltd | 5/09/2022 | $750.00 | Discharged contaminants, namely lead, treated timber and metals onto or into land in circumstances which may enter water. | Rangiora |
| Luisetti Properties Ltd | 5/09/2022 | $300.00 | Burning contaminants. | Rangiora |
| Gen-Y Homes Ltd | 5/09/2022 | $750.00 | Discharged sediment into or onto land in circumstances which may enter water | Woodend |
| Davie Lovell Smith Ltd | 14/07/2022 | $300.00 | Permitted the use of land for the excavation of material over the coastal confined aquifer system when there was less than 1 metre of undisturbed materials between the deepest part of the excavation and the aquifer in breach of Rule 5.175(1)(a) of the Canterbury Regional Council Land and Water Plan. | Halswell |
| Grantleigh Farm Ltd | 4/07/2022 | $300.00 | Your contractor discharged contaminants into air, namely particulates in the form of smoke when green vegetation was burnt when the vegetation was not dry and the moisture content exceeded 25% dry weight, contrary to Rule 7.14 condition 5 of the Canterbury Air Regional Plan. | Twizel |
| Paul Smith Earthmoving 2002 Ltd | 4/07/2022 | $300.00 | Discharged contaminants into air, namely particulates in the form of smoke, when green vegetation was burned - vegetation was not dry and the moisture content exceeded 25% dry weight, contrary to Rule 7.14 condition 5 of the Canterbury Air Regional Plan. | Twizel |
| Freshpork New Zealand Ltd | 30/06/2022 | $300.00 | Discharged contaminants into the air, namely particulates in the form of smoke, when specified waste was burnt, namely but not limited to plastic sheeting, general rubbish, timber offcuts and cardboard - breach of rule 7.7 of the Canterbury Air Regional Plan. | Burnham |
| Freshpork New Zealand Ltd | 30/06/2022 | $300.00 | Used land for an onsite refuse disposal pit - breach of 5.27 (4) of the Canterbury Land and Water Regional Plan when kerbside community or local authority refuse collection is available. | Burnham |
| Lyttelton Port Company | 22/06/2022 | $1,000.00 | Discharged contaminants, namely soya bean meal into or onto land from an industrial or trade premises not in accordance with condition 2 of Resource Consent CRC960557. | Lyttelton |
| Taylor Groundspread Ltd | 31/05/2022 | $1,000.00 | Discharged contaminant namely phosphorus (TP) from an industrial or trade premises into or onto land. | Hinds |
| Intergroup (South Island) Ltd | 27/05/2022 | $750.00 | Discharged contaminants, namely zinc in the form of arc spray particulates onto or into land in circumstances which may enter water | Christchurch |
| Dogterom Farming Ltd | 27/05/2022 | $750.00 | Discharge of contaminants, namely stock excrement and sediment when stock accessed the bed and bank of the Kokoamu Creek | Duntroon |
| Hilton Haulage Ltd Partnership | 2/05/2022 | $1,000.00 | Discharged of contaminants into air namely particulates in the form of smoke from an industria or trade premises. | Washdyke |
| McArthur, James Donald | 2/05/2022 | $750.00 | Discharged contaminants into the Taumatakahu Stream, namely sediment-laden water, when earthworks were undertaken | Temuka |
| McArthur, James Donald | 2/05/2022 | $500.00 | Your contractor disturbed the bed of the Taumatakahu Stream when partly infilling the meander of the stream and creating a new straight channel | Temuka |
| Gary Oliver Contracting Ltd | 2/05/2022 | $750.00 | Discharged of contaminants into the Taumatakahu Stream, namely sediment-laden water, when earthworks undertaken. | Temuka |
| Gary Oliver Contracting Ltd | 2/05/2022 | $500.00 | Disturbed the bed of the Taumatakahu Stream when partly infilling the meander of the stream and creating a new channel. | Temuka |
| PIC New Zealand Ltd | 22/04/2022 | $750.00 | Discharged a contaminant namely pig effluent onto land in circumstances which may enter water and rate of effluent discharge was not in accordance with condition 4 of Resource Consent CRC940675.1 | Bankside |
| KB Contracting & Quarries Ltd | 7/04/2022 | $750.00 | Contravention of an abatement notice which required installation and verification of a water measuring device and for copies of the certificates to be submitted to Environment Canterbury. | Christchurch |
| De Veth, John | 1/04/2022 | $500.00 | Took water not in accordance with the condition 7 of Resource Consent CRC021944.2 - no certification of measuring and recording device and data recording provided. | Temuka |
| De Veth, John | 1/04/2022 | $750.00 | Contravened an abatement notice requiring verification of the water meter on WAP K38/2242. Verification not provided by comply date. | Temuka |
| Regal Holdings Ltd | 30/03/2022 | $750.00 | Discharged contaminant, namely palm kennel expeller (PKE) onto or into land in circumstances which may enter water. | Timaru |
| Rutherford, Jan Scott | 21/03/2022 | $300.00 | Undertook vegetation clearance outside the bed of a river but within 5 metres of the bed of a river where the vegetation clearance was not undertaken in accordance with a Farm Environment Plan in breach of rule 5.167(b)1(b) of the Canterbury Land and Water Regional Plan. | Waiau |
| Marine Blast and Paint Ltd | 25/03/2022 | $1,000.00 | Discharged contaminants, namely suspended or deposited particulate matter, fugitive dust, spray paint, and overspray from an industrial or trade premises into air not in accordance with condition 2 of Resource Consent CRC205102. | Lyttelton |
| Oliver, Stuart | 21/03/2022 | $500.00 | Allowing stock to access and disturb the bed of Hororata River resulting in pugging of the riverbed in breach of Rule 5.68 3(a) of the Canterbury Land and Water Regional Plan | Hororata |
| Ravensdown Limited | 14/03/2022 | $750.00 | Discharged contaminant, namely fertiliser residue, onto and into land where it may enter water. | Christchurch |
| Hallmark Group Limited | 11/03/2022 | $1,000.00 | Discharged contaminants, namely dust into air from an industrial or trade premises,which was offensive and objectionable beyond the boundary of the property. | Rangiora |
| Bennett, Lee | 23/02/2022 | $300.00 | Burning of contaminants | Christchurch |
| Mike Downs Contracting Ltd | 19/02/2022 | $500.00 | Damming water in the Grehan Stream which resulted in a reduced flow downstream resulting in eel stranding which contravened conditions 7, 8 and 9 of Resource consent CRC221960. | Akaroa |
| Morrison, Peter | 13/02/2022 | $500.00 | Disturbed the bed of the Kowai River when excavating to place a structure being a stop bank and flood protection works utilising excavated pine trees which was not expressly allowed by a NES or other regulations, rule in a regional plan as well as a rule in a prosposed regional plan for the same region(if there is one) or Resource Consent CRC021934.2 | Springfield |
| Texco Groundworks Limited | 10/02/2022 | $750.00 | Discharged contaminants, namely sediment laden stormwater onto or into land where it may enter water in breach of conditions 2a, 6 abd 18a of Resource Consent CRC204419 | Christchurch |
| Switched On Group Ltd | 9/02/2022 | $750.00 | Discharged contaminants, namely paint onto or into land where it may enter the stormwater system water. | Christchurch |
| Taggart Earthmoving Ltd | 2/12/2022 | $750.00 | Discharged contaminant namely sediment laden water onto or into land in circumstances which result in that contaminant entering water when stormwater management system was overwhelmed. | Woodend |
| Johnston Civil Limited | 12/02/2022 | $750.00 | Discharge of contaminants, namely sediment laden stormwater into or onto land not in accordance with condition 3 of Resource Consent CRC214464, when the capacity of the decanting earth bund was exceeded, and sediment laden stormwater was discharged beyond the boundary of the site and exacerbated flooding on the surrounding sites. | Prebbleton |