Performance Targets

Facilitate the collection, transport, re-use, storage, treatment and disposal of redundant agrichemicals and other small quantities of waste hazardous substances, where there is no appropriate service provided, by:

• Operating, in conjunction with Wrightson waste agrichemical collection facilities at Whangarei, Dargaville, Waipapa and Kaitaia.
• Operating a facility in Whangarei for the short-term storage of waste hazardous substances awaiting transport.
• Providing a collection, transport and a disposal service for the other quantities of waste hazardous substances.
• Export for safe destruction, the intractable waste hazardous substances that the Council has in long-term storage.

Facilitate the management of contaminated sites in Northland, by:

• Maintaining and updating a database of potentially contaminated sites, related site assessments and remediation.
• Promoting the assessment and remediation of significant contaminated sites.
• Promote the availability of contaminated site information through the LIM and PIM systems by providing the District Councils with the database of potentially contaminated sites, related site assessments and remediation.