Items of interest from this week’s meetings of the Council’s two key committees, Consents & Regulatory, and Policy & Planning: More clarity on wetlandsThe Council has welcomed a Government move to amend and clarify its new wetlands regulations to remove unanticipated barriers to habitat restoration work and other nearby activities that pose no environmental threat. The Policy & Planning Committee discussed a draft submission that generally supports the proposed amendments subject to minor
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The Taranaki Regional Council and New Plymouth District Council have worked together on these documents relating to the Government's National Policy Statement for Urban Development Capacity. Urban development capacity in the New Plymouth district This document outlines the requirements of the 2016 NPS for Urban Development Capacity, and how the Taranaki Regional Council and New Plymouth District Council are working together to meet them. Urban development Capacity in the New Plymouth District
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regarding evacuation of your area.” It is not consistent with and does not reinforce the messages
that are issued via EMA. This can create confusion and may result in people delaying or not taking
critical life safety actions.
NEMA currently issues short EMA messages (under 90 characters) for land and marine tsunami
threats. The short EMA messages were used as some handsets experienced issues receiving longer
alerts when the EMA system was first rolled out.
environment.
Section 4 presents recommendations to be implemented 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:
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Rates are yearly charges based on property values, made up of different components accounting for various services. They add up to just over a third of the Taranaki Regional Council's income. Most of the Council’s income comes from user charges, Government grants, dividends and rent and investment income. The Council’s rates are collected on its behalf by the region’s three District Councils, which include them in their quarterly rates notices to ratepayers. Rates vary according to which
monitoring results show that zinc concentrations have generally
declined over time and this year was one of the lowest results.
There were no visible emissions or odour observed during this year’s inspections, although visible emissions
were occasionally seen at other times of the year. The galvanising plant does not currently have an emission
control system and this would improve the ambient air quality and reduce visible emissions.
For reference, in the 2023/24 year consent holders were
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Ample Group Ltd (the Company) operates an abattoir on Mountain Road, Stratford in the Kahouri Stream
Catchment. The Company slaughters and processes cattle into a range of products. Effluent from the
stockyards and wastewater from the abattoir building is diverted into a three-pond treatment system and
preferentially irrigated to land, or to the Kahouri Stream during
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 and social-
economic effects;
b. physical effects on the locality, including