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7 What Next?

7.1 Making a submission

Any person can make a submission on the proposed standard. Please include the following information:

  1. your name and postal address, phone number, fax number and email address (if applicable)
  2. the title of the standard you are making the submission about
  3. whether you support or oppose the standard
  4. your submission, with reasons for your views
  5. any changes you would like made to the standard
  6. the decision you wish the Minister for the Environment to make.

You must forward your submission to the Ministry for the Environment, PO Box 10-362, Wellington, or by email to standards@mfe.govt.nz, in time to be received no later than 5.00 pm on Monday 28 November 2005.

7.2 Questions

Your submission can address any issue relating to the standard. The following lists questions the Ministry for the Environment would like specific comment on.

  1. (a) Should water suppliers be notified of all resource consent applications that occur within a water supply catchment?, or
    1(b) Should the standard apply only to certain types of resource consent applications?
  2. Appendix 2 sets out a specific contaminants and pathways related to particular land uses that may impact on source water. Will this help councils establish criteria for determining which activities may adversely affect water supplies, and therefore whether or not water suppliers should be notified?
  3. Does the standard adequately ensure that water suppliers are notified of resource consent applications that might affect the level of treatment needed to produce water that is wholesome and potable?
  4. Defining treatment is problematic if we are to avoid setting bottom lines for source water quality and placing unnecessary treatment requirements on some communities. Does the current definition of treatment provide sufficient certainty for the purposes of applying the standard in practice?
  5. It is proposed that the standard apply to drinking-water sources that provide communities greater than 25 people at least 60 days of the year. Is this an appropriate threshold?

7.3 What happens after you have made your submission?

Once submissions have been compiled they will be considered with regard to developing the final policy package and in preparing the regulations. The Ministry will prepare a summary of submissions, which will be available through the Ministry's website. Hard copies will be available on request.

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