currently able to provide. Some or all
of the data being provided may not yet have been audited however, and is therefore subject to change.
As we endeavour to continuously improve our products, we also reserve the right to further amend data where necessary and without
notice at any time. As a result, the information supplied to you now may not be the same as that subsequently produced for you or any
other requestor.
While the Council has exercised all reasonable skill and care in
eight resource consents which include 139 conditions setting out the requirements that
the Company must comply with. The Company holds two consents which authorise discharges to
contaminants air land and water from composting and irrigation (both of which expired in 2018). Another
consent authorises discharges of stormwater contaminants from a quarry elsewhere on the site, and there
are four land use consents for the erection, modification or use of culverts on site. Applications to replace
the
consented limits for their washwater and stormwater consents. A third
abatement notice was issued for failing to telemeter water take data to the Council and for exceeding
consented take limits.
Issues with environmental performance across sites generally related to exceedances of consented limits,
stormwater catchments and cleanfill extents. Issues with administrative performance generally related to
failing to update management plans or to supply data.
For reference, in the 2022/23 year,
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
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):
page
Technical Memorandum | Interim Baseline State for Dissolved Oxygen and
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,
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
as part of the review of the freshwater and soil
plans. Key findings and recommendations outlined in this paper are as follows:
Over the last two decades, dairy farms in Taranaki have intensified their land use resulting in
increased stocking rates, increased herd sizes, and increased quantities of fertiliser and
agrichemicals being applied to the land.
The cumulative effects of agricultural sourced discharges – whether to land or water – are
arguably the single greatest human
will be promoted throughout the
Taranaki region and at different scales within the region and will include ecological landscapes, ecosystems,
habitats, communities, species and populations.
Adverse effects on indigenous biodiversity
POLICY 2
Adverse effects on indigenous biodiversity in the Taranaki region arising from the use and development of
natural and physical resources will be avoided, remedied or mitigated.
Ecosystems, habitats and areas with