By: ryeguynz
6/11/2009
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???? what are saying worsley?
I have wondered if they could run dairy sheds of methane from fermenting effluent ponds. ChCh councils runs the QE11 swimming pool off methane from the refuse centre close by. |
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By: old_wolseley
6/11/2009
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| Has a 'Bachelor of Agricultural Science' degree that I got in the early 1970s. But, I don't go around blowing my own trumpet, so you wont hear me talk much of it. |
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By: old_wolseley
6/11/2009
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| Let's see, 'what sort of waste goes into your average effluent holding ponds?' |
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By: old_wolseley
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| And, before you lot say it, sheep and cattle farmers have also had to clean up our act. But then again, our footprint on the land isn't so great. |
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By: old_wolseley
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| Dairy farmer, Joe Blogs, brings his tractors and motorbikes onto the cowshed yard, uses the high-pressure hose to wash them down with, resulting in mud, water, urine, cow dung, oil, grease, petrol and diesel seeping into the effluent pond. |
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By: old_wolseley
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| That is just one example. |
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By: old_wolseley
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| Joe Blogs just happens to be spraying his thistles with round up on the 4 wheeler that day. Chemicals of which, now enter the pond. |
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By: vrybored37
6/11/2009
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Even the fertilizer used seeps through the porous rock and earth in rivers. Don't think alot can be done about it.
Better get used to retrieving nothing but slime when attempting to go fishing :( |
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By: vrybored37
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| **into rivers |
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By: old_wolseley
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| Then that night after milking the cows, he puts the water through, empties the test bucket containing penicillin milk down the drain, as well as, the last dregs of, putting the water through. Resulting in all those chemicals, now entering the pond, as well. |
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By: old_wolseley
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Don't over fertilise. Use higher stocking rates, and harrows to spread the manure over the paddocks.
Advice from an old bugger, like me. |
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By: ryeguynz
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| At least the pond is isolated, well I hope it is. It's when that run off enters streams etc that I start to get concerned. |
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By: old_wolseley
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| Intensive farming operations likes this, are required to feed the planet. |
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| But the end result, damage to the natural ecosystem. |
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By: select1000@rocketmail.com
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ryeguy
Yeah....Harts creek did used to be pretty clean. I remember going on a high school biology field trip to measure pollutant levels in Coes Ford and Harts Creek in the mid 90's (I was at Lincoln High) so they were on our doorstep. At that stage Coes Ford was already quite polluted but Harts Creek was much cleaner. Now apparently thats pretty awful too.
Perhaps we need a rule that land within 50 metres of watercourses can't be used for dairying. We would need to do this at the time a patch of land is next sold and compensate the farmer who is selling appropriately though so would be an expensive exercise!! |
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By: old_wolseley
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"Perhaps we need a rule that land within 50 metres of watercourses can't be used for dairying"
Excellent idea that! They're doing a similar scheme in Taranaki. Planting the banks in natives. |
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