Country Dairy which brings little benefit to our local
South Taranaki community and economy.
We oppose the granting of this early consent for the following reasons:
- TRC is informing all applicants that any consented discharge expiring in 2022 or later must discharge to
land when the consent is renewed.
- Dual discharges may be allowed if the farm is in a high rainfall area and provision of adequate storage is
impractical.
Operations and Regulatory Committee - Resource Consents Issued
expired on 1 June
2011, but remained in force while application for a new consent was being processed.
There were eight conditions associated with this consent which set out how the
consent shall be operated and managed.
Condition 1 was a review provision.
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Condition 2 set out the terms of use of the consent during heavy rainfall only.
Condition 3 set limits on the components of the discharge.
Conditions 4 and 5 placed limits on the concentration of
access, bridge losses, silt deposition and stock and fence losses.
The focus of the strategy however was the establishment of a flood prediction and warning system to
provide warnings to the local community. An automated warning system was subsequently developed
and an additional telemetered rainfall site installed in the Ngutawera sub-catchment to assist with these
warnings.
In regard to river channel management, the Strategy recommended that arrangements be made in
SEM Lake Rotorangi Annual Report 2020-2021
Trustpower Motukawa hydro consent monitoring Annual report 2016-2017
rainfall events can
lead to rapid rises in river levels and flooding in hill country valleys and elsewhere.
Figure 2: The Taranaki Region
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The people
Figures from the 2018 census show Taranaki total population stands at 117,561, an increase of 7.3% over the
2013 census figure. In the previous census period (2006-2013) the region’s population increased by 5.3%.
Taranaki accounts for 2.5% of New Zealand’s total population.
Population changes have also varied
cell of the secondary pond (using chlorophyll-a measurements)
indicated that the system had a low algal content, particularly following heavy rainfall events. Microfloral
populations have not indicated poor performance of the treatment system to date and generally indicate an
improvement in conditions in the tertiary cell since the last WWTP upgrade.
Screening of the outlet from the secondary oxidation pond was well maintained. The inlet system functioned
as designed during the monitoring
Quarterly Operational Report September 2019