Section 4 presents recommendations to be implemented in the 2019-2020 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
environment will be avoided, remedied or mitigated, and also allows the conditions
relating to the combined quantity of the takes and the assessment of alternative
sources of water to be enforced. The conditions reflect the requirements of the Local
Water Conservation (Stony (Hangatahua) River) Notice 1985, which was part of the
Transitional Plan. The first two conditions have been included to limit the amount of
water that an individual can take, in order to retain the quantities, flows and levels
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Inventory of coastal areas of
local or regional significance in the
Taranaki region
Summary and discussion
Taranaki Regional Council
Private Bag 713
Stratford
January 2004
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Executive summary
• The purpose of this report is to summarise key facts on the ‘state’ and pressures
affecting public use of and access to areas identified in the Inventory of Coastal Areas of
Local or Regional Significance in the Taranaki Region (‘the
river shall be whichever is the lesser of -
(i) one kilometre upstream from the mouth of the river; or
(ii) the point upstream that is calculated by multiplying the width of the river mouth by 5.
PURSUANT to Section 2 of the Act the Minister, the Taranaki Regional Council and each of the
Territorial Authorities (in relation only to their respective district boundaries) AGREE AND SET
the mouth of each river within the Taranaki region as follows:
c) for any river listed in the schedule to
required to renew seven of the eight consents. This AEE document
supports the applications for the renewal of these consents.
No new works are being proposed. The effects of the activity will remain the same or similar
as they are currently.
There are no significant changes proposed to the operation of the hydroelectric scheme. No
new equipment is proposed in the near future, and it is expected that the scheme will continue
largely in its current form.
2. THE OPUNAKE POWER STATION – A
discharged into a nearby farm drain and surface water. An abatement notice and infringement fine were
issued. The abatement notice was immediately complied with. The second exercise was undertaken without
issue.
Spreading procedures were updated to prevent stockpiling of waste on paddocks prior to spreading or
landfarming.
Water treatment sludge remains lagooned in-situ at two locations on the consent holder’s property.
By comparison with previous monitoring periods, the monitoring
addresses the use, development and protection of indigenous freshwater biodiversity, including
wetlands, in the Taranaki region. The paper is one of a suite of documents contributing to the
Taranaki Regional Council’s (the Council) review of the Regional Fresh Water Plan for Taranaki (the
Freshwater Plan) and the Regional Soil Plan for Taranaki (the Soil Plan).
The focus of this paper is on freshwater habitats (this includes wetlands, rivers, streams and lakes),
rather than individual species or
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HĀWERA TO NPBHS & FDMC
BUS STOP LOCATION
Hāwera Water Tower (High Street)
Normanby (Rural Direct)
Eltham (Bath St)
Ngaere (opp. Ngaere hall)
Stratford
sea level, there are a number of tauranga waka (canoe berths) formerly used for
fishing canoes. These have special significance to Ngati Tama in their identification with the area as physical
symbols of an historical association with it.
Purposes of statutory acknowledgement
Under section 54, 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
dwelling is situated at the front of the property close to
the road.
Effects of AFT’s current operations on Poppas Peppers
5. Offensive odour from the chicken farm is ongoing and regular. People
frequently visit or home and business, and we are often asked if we have
just put manure in our greenhouses. We have to explain that we run a fully
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contained hydroponic reticulation irrigation system that recycles any runoff.
We do not use organic