performance and compliance for 86% of the consents monitored through the Taranaki tailored monitoring
programmes, while for another 11% of the consents, a good level of environmental performance and
compliance was achieved.
In terms of overall environmental and compliance performance by the consent holder over the last several
years, this report shows that the consent holder’s performance remains at a good or high level.
This report includes recommendations for the 2021-2022 year,
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setting out the
requirements that the Company must satisfy.
The Council’s monitoring programme for the year under review included three inspections, seven water
samples collected for physicochemical analysis, two biomonitoring surveys of receiving waters, and one
marine ecology inspection.
The monitoring showed that activities at the Paritūtū site had no significant impact on air quality in the
vicinity of the plant or on water quality in the Herekawe Stream. There was one unauthorised
in the 2024/25 monitoring year.
A glossary of common abbreviations and scientific terms, and a 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
survey results; and
• Highlighted key messages from the submissions.
For each sub-theme this report has:
• Outlined a selection of online survey results;
• Summarised relevant submission points;
• Assessed the submission points for applicability; and
• Either recommended a potential document change or outlined where further work is ongoing.
The number of responses to each question varies significantly. This is because there are two types:
• Questions which are
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A Guide to Surface Water Availability
and Allocation in Taranaki
DISCLAIMER:
This document is a GUIDE ONLY and is written in good faith with a desire to inform or
be helpful. While every endeavour has been made to ensure the information in this
Guide is accurate, the Taranaki Regional Council accepts no responsibility for any error
or omission in these pages. Any resource consent application to take surface water will
be considered by the Council on the case-by-case
With two weekends of significant rainfall, a number of records were set in February. Rainfall for February was extremely high with sites recording between 178% and 702% of normal, with an average of 354%. This rainfall really only occurred on a handful of days, the 5th to 7th and then a week later from the 11th to 13th. The rainfall site at Cape Egmont recorded 628.6mm for the month, which is the highest February rainfall recorded for the site since records began in 1930. Summer rainfall
of race freeboard.
• Assessment of potential flooding effects on adjacent properties.
• Assessment of mitigation options to minimise flooding effects on adjacent properties.
• Assessment of likely erosion issues within the Race and management option to
mitigate these issues.
• Assessment of the likely geotechnical issues within the Race.
The scope did not include:
• Any detailed design of race or fish passage improvements.
• Any physical geotechnical investigations.
indicated that the discharge of treated stormwater and leachate
discharges from the Colson Road landfill site had not had any significant detrimental effect on the
macroinvertebrate communities of the Puremu and Manganaha Streams.
Air quality monitoring showed that there were no significant adverse effects in relation to suspended
particulates, dust deposition rates or odour beyond the site boundary.
An enclosed gas flare system was installed for air quality control during the 2017/18
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APPENDIX IA
APPENDICES
Appendix IA
Rivers and stream catchments with high natural, ecological and amenity values
River or stream Water quality Recreational & fishery values Aesthetic & scenic values Comments53
Hangatahua (Stony)
River
Excellent water quality
throughout whole catchment.
High clarity, low turbidity, very
low nutrients.
Macroinvertebrate community
health excellent (average MCI
109-130)
Large river,
further increased to a daily increase of 44% with the implementation of
the ‘Gold’ frequency option.
• By 2053, approximately 54,500 people will be within a bus route. This is a 3,100 or 6% increase
from the Do-Minimum.
• Reduction of 4,812 tonnes of CO2 over 40 years with the ‘Bronze’ frequency, and a reduction of
13,335 tonnes with the ‘Gold’ frequency option due to private vehicle trips diverted to public
transport.
BCR and Costs
The overall estimated annual