Community category winners in the 2022 Taranaki Regional Council Environmental Awards. Category Sponsor: Methanex Sustainable Taranaki - for outstanding contribution to promoting sustainability in Taranaki and educating and encouraging communities and individuals to make lifestyle changes which benefit the natural environment. Sustainable Taranaki’s programmes reflect its mission of inspiring people to play their part in handing a vibrant environment to the next generation. Recognising people
monitoring period a total of 19 consents were held by the 14 industries monitored
under this programme that discharge wastewater, stormwater and/or leachate from the industrial area at
Fitzroy, New Plymouth to the lower Waiwhakaiho River and Mangaone Stream, or to land in the lower
Waiwhakaiho and Mangaone Stream catchments. The activities and impacts of the consent holders upon
water quality are discussed, as is the extent of their compliance with their permits, and their overall
environmental
Business category winners in the 2022 Taranaki Regional Council Environmental Awards. Category sponsor: Daily News Todd Energy - for a significant contribution to the safeguarding and protection of the Kapuni Awa. After major flooding on the Kapuni Awa (river) in South Taranaki in July 2021, Taranaki energy company Todd Energy invested in a 100m-long new rock wall. Around 1500m3 of land within the Nova Generation Solar Farm site was washed away during the major weather event, with sediment
bibliography, are presented at the end of the
report.
1.1.3 The Resource Management Act 1991 and monitoring
The RMA primarily addresses environmental ‘effects’ which are defined as positive or adverse, temporary or
permanent, past, present or future, or cumulative. Effects may arise in relation to:
a. the neighbourhood or the wider community around an activity, and may include cultural and social-
economic effects;
b. physical effects on the locality, including landscape, amenity and visual
install a flowmeter at the point of discharge as per
condition 8 of Consent 1113-5.1. From the Council’s perspective, the current flowmeter configuration
captures data for groundwater abstraction as both flowmeters record pumping of groundwater from the
main excavation pit to the settling ponds. The Company makes no distinction between groundwater take
and discharge or the emergency discharge rate which Consent 1113-5.1 makes concession for in
condition 2.
For reference, in the 2023/24 year
avoid waterbodies with decreased dissolved oxygen, with death usually occurring when levels
reach 2 mg/L or less (Franklin, 2014).
Ecosystem Metabolism
Ecosystem metabolism refers to the metabolic processes that transform oxygen, carbon and energy and
broadly measures the way carbon is cycled through an ecosystem. It is perhaps best described by Casanovas
et al. (2022):
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Technical Memorandum | Interim Baseline State for Dissolved Oxygen and
primarily addresses environmental ‘effects’ which are defined as positive or adverse, temporary or
permanent, past, present or future, or cumulative. Effects may arise in relation to:
a. the neighbourhood or the wider community around an activity, and may include cultural and social-
economic effects;
b. physical effects on the locality, including landscape, amenity and visual effects;
c. ecosystems, including effects on plants, animals, or habitats, whether aquatic or terrestrial;
d.
The Council staff are organised under a chief executive and four directors. Senior management team Chief Executive and Directors Steve Ruru
Chief Executive
email Steve Ruru Abby Matthews Director-Environment Quality email Abby Matthews Daniel Harrison
Director-Operations
email Daniel Harrison Fred McLay
Director-Resource Management
email Fred McLay Mike Nield
Director-Corporate Services
email Mike Nield Operational structureThe Council employs a permanent staff with wide-ranging professional,
professional manner and in accordance with the Taranaki Regional
Council’s policy and statutory responsibilities.
• Continue to ensure professional knowledge is current and spans across
best practice.
• Representing the Taranaki Regional Council at any objections or
appeals to consents decisions.
• Provide technical support in areas of expertise (activity champion),
including reviewing letters (Section 92) and reports (Section 42a) and
continuous improvement of standard consent conditions.