The Farm Dairy Effluent System Design Accreditation programme provides a new way forward for Effluent System Design in NZ. The programme goal is to ensure all NZ dairy farmers have effluent systems that can achieve dairy industry and wider communities expectations for the land application of dairy effluent:

• To keep all untreated effluent out of surface and groundwater.
• To keep land applied effluent nutrients in the root zone to capture their nutrient and economic value.

Systems designed and installed by Reid & Harrison Services will meet:

• Farm Dairy Effluent (FDE) Design Code of Practice
• Farm Dairy Effluent (FDE) Design Standards
• Compliance 365 days of the year

You are invited to read the Farmer’s Guide for Farm Dairy Effluent (FDE) Systems ('SYSTEMS PLANNING GUIDE'). This gives good advice for planning the right system for your farm.
 

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POND/TANK CALCULATIONS

The Pond/Tank calculation is run on the Dairy Effluent storage calculator. To have credibility, Dairy NZ recommends it be run by a professional who has an appropriate certification. 

The calculator determines your farm's storage requirement for dairy effluent after looking at your farm inputs and rainfall/evaporation history. Your local compliance authorities normally ask for evidence of this calculation. We provide this service and will work through the scenarios with varying inputs to calculate the best outcome for you. 

Even better, if you move on to an effluent system install with us based on the calculation, we will credit the cost of the original calculation service.