Response 310863913

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Introduction

1. What is your name?

First Name
George
Surname
Muir

2. What is your email address?

Email
george@muirsreef.co.nz

4. Are you providing feedback as an individual or on behalf of an organisation?

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As an individual
On behalf of an organisation or group
Organisation
muirs reef limited
Position/Title
director

6. Which of the options below best describes you?

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Individual water drinker / consumer
Registered drinking water supplier (excl marae) – registered either under the Health Act 1956 or the Water Services Act 2021
Unregistered drinking water supplier (excl marae)
Other commercial user of water
Stakeholder representative / industry body
Iwi representative organisation
Marae
Health professional
Laboratory
Local Authority or Council Controlled Organisation
Regional Council
Central government agency
Local interest group
Other
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forestry company who has to pump water to 7 properties from old easements

Summary of proposed Acceptable Solution for Rural Agricultural Water Supplies

18. Do you want to submit a prepared response?

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Providing assistance to water suppliers

19. Do you believe that the proposed Drinking Water Acceptable Solution for Rural Agricultural Water Supplies will provide assistance to water suppliers to comply with the Water Services Act 2021?

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as per attached submission

Section 4

20. Do you agree with these proposed criteria?

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Section 7.1

21. Do you agree that the proposed requirements for the use of the Drinking Water Acceptable Solution for Rural Agricultural Water Supplies are appropriate?

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Agricultural water supplies are very complex with livestock troughs and hard to know if backflow valves are used. This would be very hard to police and would result in a great deal of farmers becoming criminals

Section 7.2

22. Do you agree that the proposed turbidity and backflow prevention device requirements are appropriate?

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lots of farm houses and town houses already have domestic uv filtration units fitted which do not measure of record UV dose rates. These systems work great if owners have them turned on and if the light tube is cleaned annually when the light is replaced so long as the turbidity is at an acceptable level. Many farms may have water which will not meet the turbidity level and treatment could be very complex. Bottled water may be a more viable option in some cases such as the exchange system used in hotels. Nobody will replace domestic units which we have already installed at great cost and professional uv systems also use alot of electricity which is not viable on solar powered treatment plants. On our farm we have two such domestic uv treatment systems which work fine. We will not be liable for the health of other properties (owned by third parties) fed water from our reticulation system. That is stupid and illegal

Section 7.3

23. Do you agree that the proposed end point treatment system requirements are appropriate?

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They should not have to deliver 40 mj/cm2 as 10mj is more than enough to kill bugs. There is no need to have telemetry as that adds alot of cost, administration and power.

Section 7.4

24. Do you agree that the proposed end point treatment system configuration is appropriate?

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You have not considered farm troughs, sheds, huts, woolsheds, milk vats, washdown pumps or spray fillers

Section 8.1

25. Do you agree that the proposed operations and maintenance manual requirements are appropriate?

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Too complicated for a farm

Section 8.2

26. Do you agree that the proposed operating procedures are appropriate?

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Too much to take in for a farmer. Don't be unrealistic

Section 8.3

27. Do you agree that the proposed inspection procedures are appropriate?

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sounds too complicated for someone who's primary job is caring for farm animals

Section 8.4

28. Do you agree with the proposed maintenance, inspection, and calibration requirements?

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too much to cope with. Too complex

Section 9

29. Do you agree with the proposed household monitoring requirements?

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not necessary. If you are happy for single houses to use rainwater with no uv treatment of filtering, its impracticable to expect multi dwellings to do it. Also, telemetry would mean thousands of existing uv units would become redundant which is not caring for the environment, also very expensive when most of us have already spent thousands in the last few years on domestic uv devices

30. Do you agree with the proposed supply monitoring requirements?

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Section 10

31. Do you agree that the incident and emergency response plan requirements are appropriate?

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too complex for a farm

Section 11

32. Do you agree that the training and awareness obligations of the water supplier are appropriate?

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the thing is when you start deciding who is the "supplier" on small rural schemes there are going to be neighbourly arguments break out

Section 12

33. Do you agree that the auditing obligations of the water supplier are appropriate?

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Closing page

34. If you want to provide any additional feedback on the proposed Drinking Water Acceptable Solution for Rural Agricultural Water Supplies, please provide this feedback here:

Overall I think you should leave farms out and let it be dealt with under the health and safety in employment act or Fonterra cover it off, the same as Zespri already do