technical and administrative skills. The structure matches the Council's fields of activities. It is a flat compact structure with a high level of delegated authority. Chief Executive (Steve Ruru) Environment Quality (Director: Abby Matthews)
Science services
Emergency management
Resource investigations and monitoring
Waste minimisation Operations (Director: Daniel Harrison)
Environment services (biosecurity and biodiversity)
Towards Predator-Free Taranaki Land management
River control and flood
Towards Predator-Free Taranaki has welcomed a $750,000 boost that has created six new jobs, accelerating efforts to remove introduced predators and protect the region’s native bush, birds and wildlife. The funding for 12 months has been awarded to the Taranaki Regional Council-led project by Crown-owned Predator Free 2050 Limited, through the Jobs for Nature (Mahi mō te Taiao) programme. Council Environment Services Manager Steve Ellis says the six full time equivalents – a mix of employed
Items of interest from today's meetings of the Taranaki Regional Council's two key committees, Consents & Regulatory, and Policy & Planning: Knowledge wavesThe Council’s recent survey to gauge the regional community’s views on the relative merits of 140 surf breaks was a first for New Zealand and drew 338 responses, the Policy and Planning Committee was told. After using a newly developed assessment scale to analyse the responses, a status of ‘regionally significant’ is proposed for 81 of the
the Council to take
action on any environmental matter even if not explicitly addressed within a regional plan.
The analysis shows that the Council’s monitoring, liaison, and if needs be enforcement of
consents is very effective, achieving extremely high levels of compliance and low levels of
complaint. The average annual rate of non-compliance is barely more than 2%, or 8 events
per year. A very small number of consented sites are proving problematic; the Council
applies the full suite
Items of interest from today's meeting of the Taranaki Regional Council Policy and Planning Committee: Iwi testing the waters
Council officers are providing a number of iwi and hapū in the region with training and advice to allow them to monitor the health of waterways using a ‘Stream Health Monitoring and Assessment Kit’ (SHMAK) developed by NIWA, the Committee was told. An initial approach for assistance came from the region’s southernmost iwi, Ngaa Rauru Kiitahi, and others have since
document only) Dairy Discharge Monitoring Programme (1.3 MB pdf) Telemetry information for consent holders Water-use data must be sent by consent holders to the Council daily. This can be achieved using telemetry, which is explained in this leaflet. Telemetry information for consent holders (346 KB pdf) (single document only) Telemetry information for consent holders (346 KB pdf) Soil Quality in the Taranaki Region 2017 This five-yearly analysis of soil quality in the region was commissioned by the
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