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, amenity and visual effects;
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8.4 Reclamation or drainage ..............................................................................................97
8.5 Taking or use .....................................................................................................................99
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8.3 Disturbance, deposition and extraction .................................................................91
8.4 Reclamation or drainage ..............................................................................................98
8.5 Taking or use .................................................................................................................. 100
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(seafood), tauranga waka or awa waka
(boat channels, tauranga ika (fishing grounds) and mouri kohatu (stone imbued with spiritual significance). The importance of these areas and iwi’s role as kaitiaki (guardians) to protect
these areas and their associated values is as important to present day whanau (family) as it was to their tupuna (ancestors).
The cultural and spiritual importance of the coastline and the marine area continues to be embodied in waiata (song), pepeha (sayings) and
Section 3 discusses the results, their interpretations, and their significance for the environment.
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
held by the companies in the Lower Waiwhakaiho area;
• the nature of the monitoring programme in place for the period under review; and
• a description of the activities and operations conducted in the Companies’ site/catchment.
Each company’s activity is then discussed in a separate section (Sections 2 to 7).
In the subsections for each company (e.g. Section 2.1) there is a general description of the industrial activity
and its discharges, an aerial photograph or map showing the
the District Plan
may require the HBA or the Future Development Strategy to be amended earlier than
intended.
Integrating the data into long term planning, funding and infrastructure development
timeframes is challenging, because there are many different parts of the Council that deliver
these mechanisms.
Review of the data in this document may require consequential amendments to the LTP and
IS and to other relevant Council policies and bylaws.
This assessment is limited
ensuring that the natural coastal environment remains capable of supporting marine life,
retains its natural character and is able to meet the needs of future generations.
Many activities take place in the coastal marine area of Taranaki. These range from
major ventures such as petroleum exploration, and the continuing development of Port
Taranaki, to simple activities such as swimming, walking along the foreshore or children
building sand castles against the incoming tide. The Taranaki coastline
the Ordinary Meeting of 18 May 2021
d) determines that this decision be recognised as not significant in terms of section 76
of the Local Government Act 2002
e) determines that it has complied with the decision-making provisions of the Local
Government Act 2002 to the extent necessary in relation to this decision; and in
accordance with section 79 of the Act, determines that it does not require further
information, further assessment of options or further analysis of costs and
contaminants, on or
relating to mass discharge rates
c) Best practicable option to prevent or minimise off
site environmental effects
d) Visual effects, loss of amenity value of air, chronic
or acute human or animal health effects, effects
on areas identified in Policy 2.3, energy efficiency
and ecological effects
e) Monitoring and reporting requirements
f) Review of the conditions of consent and the
timing or purpose of the review
g) Payment of administrative charges
h) Payment of