officers recommendations and responses to those reliefs sought.
Requests to amend are either accepted or declined by Council officers with an explanation on the reasons for the response. Changes to the Proposed
Bylaws are tracked in red with additions being underlined and deletions showing strikethrough.
Please refer to the Appendices of this report for a full copy of the submissions on the Proposed Bylaws.
Submission 1: Powerco Limited
Submitter’s requests Officers’ recommendations and
consent. There were no unauthorised incidents noted in respect to the Stratford landfill
during the year under review.
The Council’s monitoring programme for the year under review for the Huiroa and Pukengahu closed
landfills included one site inspection each, along with two water samples collected from each site for
physicochemical analysis.
The monitoring showed that there were no significant adverse effects occurring as a result of the exercise of
the Huiroa or Pukengahu landfill
Rules and regulations covering a range of activities are set out in the Council's Regional Plans, bylaws and other documents.
The Council conducts and commissions research and reviews on a variety of topics of interest and relvance to the region and its people.
These core documents set out the Council's strategic direction and its policies and rules under the Resource Management Act, Biosecurity Act and Local Government Act, and its policies under other legislation.
Guidance on restoring and enhancing the indigenous vegetation cover which as been lost from Taranaki. Restoration planting guides These guides, published by Wild for Taranaki, provide information on restoring and enhancing the indigenous vegetation cover which has been lost from Taranaki. They help to enable landowners, community groups and practitioners to restore ecosystems by planting native species. See map showing areas covered in each guide [JPG, 188 KB] Choose and download the guide/s
Taranaki faces significant potential natural hazards and a number of specialist studies have been carried out to assess the nature and/or likely impacts of these hazards. Liquefaction A report by GNS Science in 2013 found the liquefaction hazard is limited to only a few areas in Taranaki. The report was commissioned by the Taranaki Regional Council and the New Plymouth, Stratford and South Taranaki District Councils. Liquefaction hazard in Taranaki - GNS Science (8.3 MB pdf) See fact sheet
on whole lengths i.e. Pātea Awa mountain to sea
Learn more about our waterways and take action for te taiao
education@trc.govt.nz
Term 3 onwards the above is available through your TRC Educator
page
World Biodiversity Day 22/5
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Join your host Rotokare Scenic Reserve and Enviroschools for
a fun day of enviro action focused on all things biodiversity.
Birds, bugs, lizards, trees, wetlands species and more!
Open to any school or
Click on links for details of each case. Silver Fern Farms fined $337,000 over ammonia discharge City Care fined $112,500 and NPDC fined $66,500 over sewage discharge GrainCorp fined $84,000 for tallow discharge
Company, and review of data provided by the Company.
The maximum daily abstraction was 78% of the permitted daily take, with the maximum abstraction rate
being up to 80% of the maximum permitted take for 98% of the time
Physicochemical and ecological monitoring did not note any significant environmental effects in regard to
the abstraction of water from the Kaupokonui Stream for cooling water and general purposes, from site
discharges to the Kaupokonui Stream, or in the Waiokura or Motumate