2. Associated resource consents are listed with basic details including key dates.
3. The monitoring programme components are summarised.
4. The company’s environmental performance and administrative compliance is evaluated, including:
a. A summary of the company’s performance, regarding the site and wider environment.
b. If necessary, any incidents, investigations or interventions that occurred during the monitoring period.
c. A direct assessment of the company’s consent
report is due in the 2026/27 year. No odours were noted or communicated during the monitoring period.
For reference, in the 2023/24 year, consent holders were found to achieve a high level of environmental
performance and compliance for 864 (89%) of a total of 967 consents monitored through the Taranaki
tailored monitoring programmes, while for another 75 (8%) of the consents a good level of environmental
performance and compliance was achieved. A further 26 (3%) of consents monitored
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Executive summary
RKM Farms Ltd (the Company) operates a piggery located on 599A South Road at Hawera, in the Tangahoe
Catchment. The piggery is a breeder grower and finishing operation with up to 5,000 pigs and piglets at any
one time, the treated effluent from which is discharged to the Tawhiti Stream or spread onto land and
emissions of odour to air.
This report for the
adverse effects
once sufficient data has been collected.
NPDC were required to investigate the recent erosion of the Waitara East Beach shoreline, as identified
during the previous monitoring period. The investigation determined that the erosion could not be
conclusively attributed to the river mouth training walls or half tide wall and highlighted the historic and
ongoing erosional trends observed along the wider Waitara shoreline.
For reference, in the 2022-2023 year, consent holders
data.
Section 3 discusses the results, their interpretations, and their significance for the 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,
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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. natural and physical resources having special