programmes with reports being
specific to those programmes. Those quarries are typically a component of a wider range of on-site activities or larger
scale operations which are the subject of more intensive monitoring programmes.
For each quarry, this report describes the monitoring programmes implemented by the Council to assess environmental
performance during the period under review, and the results and environmental effects of the quarry’s activities.
During the monitoring period:
AA
allow it to take and use water, five
consents to discharge water or sediment into the Makara, Mangaotea and Mako streams, one consent to
discharge wastes to land around Lake Ratapiko and four land use permits for bed disturbance and
structures in the Manganui River, Mangaotea Stream and Lake Ratapiko. Seven additional consents allow
the Company to abstract water, and construct and maintain structures in the Mangaotea Stream.
During the period under review, the Company demonstrated a high
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Coastal Management Area C: Open Coast
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Structures
Activity Rule Standards/Terms/Conditions Classification Notification Control/Discretion Policy References
Reconstruction, alteration or
removal and replacement of
an existing structure for
maintenance
C1.1 • Activity is for the purpose of maintaining the structure in good
repair;
• Size of the structure will not increase beyond original size;
•
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 landscape,
It is firmly focused on providing the resources, environment and people, which are at
the core of our on-going work.
Last year, the Council put considerable effort into the
preparation and adoption of its 2015/2025 Long-Term
Plan. This included significant public engagement and
consultation processes. This Annual Plan continues to
deliver on the agreements put in place with the
community in that Long-Term Plan. Indeed, for
2016/2017 there are no significant or
two self-reported
minor leaks of hydraulic fluid at the offshore platform. In both cases, no environmental effects
were noted and no further action was taken or required. The Pohokura facilities were well
managed and maintained.
For reference, in the 2015-2016 year, 71% of consent holders in Taranaki monitored through
tailored compliance monitoring programmes achieved a high level of environmental
performance and compliance with their consents, while another 24% demonstrated a good
level
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5.3 Evaluating policies, rules and other methods ............................................................................ 24
5.4 Quantifying benefits and costs ....................................................................................................... 25
5.5 Evaluating impacts on economic growth and the risks of acting or not acting ............. 25
6 Appropriateness of objectives
acknowledgement
Under section 41, and without limiting the rest of this schedule, the only purposes of this statutory
acknowledgement are—
(a) to require consent authorities, the Environment Court, or the Historic Places Trust, as the case may be,
to have regard to this statutory acknowledgement in relation to the Nukumaru Recreation Reserve as
provided for in sections 42 to 44; and
(b) to require consent authorities to forward summaries of resource consent applications to the
application of rules for Giant buttercup;
Gorse, Nodding, Plumeless, and Variegated thistles;
and Wild broom;
Application of rules to control Old man’s beard in
the Patea and Waingongoro catchments;
Focus on eradication programmes or sustained
control programmes (for which rules apply) with
other species and non-regulatory programmes to
be addressed in the Taranaki Regional Council
Biosecurity Strategy 2017–2037.
On behalf of the Taranaki Regional Council, I
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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a. the neighbourhood or the wider community around an activity, and may include cultural and social-
economic