mitigation
In more recent years a number of regional councils have prepared regional plans that intend to regulate
land use activities to manage nutrient losses and thereby maintain or enhance water quality, and a
number of tools/models have been used in some instances in order to estimate and thereby regulate
nutrient losses and demonstrate compliance. As regional councils prepare and review regional land and
water plans, a range of mechanisms are being incorporated into plans
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The Resource Management Act 1991 and monitoring 1.1.3.
The Resource Management Act 1991 (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 a discharger, and may
include cultural and socio-economic effects;
(b) physical effects on the locality, including landscape, amenity and
performance and
compliance was achieved.
In terms of overall environmental and compliance performance by the consent holder over the last several
years, this report shows that the consent holder’s performance remains at a good or high level.
This report includes recommendations for the 2018-2019 year.
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Table of contents
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1 Introduction 1
1.1 Compliance monitoring programme reports and the Resource Management Act 1991 1
1.1.1 Introduction 1
site’s stormwater system worked effectively.
Owing to the distance of the wellsite to the nearest stream being over 500 m, chemical analysis
or a bio-monitoring survey was un-necessary as no evidence of effects on the stream
environment were observed by the Inspecting Officer and the distance of separation meant it
was implausible there could be any effects under any circumstances.
Staff on-site were cooperative with requests made by officers of the Council, with any required
works being
through tailored compliance monitoring
programmes achieved a high level of environmental performance and compliance with their
consents, while another 24% demonstrated a good level of environmental performance and
compliance with their consents.
In terms of overall environmental and compliance performance by the consent holder over the
last several years, this report shows that the consent holder’s performance remains at a good
or high level.
This report includes recommendations for the
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 a discharger, and may
include cultural and socio-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
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4.1 Section 14(3)(b) takes – unfettered or not? .................................................. 9
4.2 Does Taranaki have a problem? .................................................................10
4.3 Avoiding adverse environmental effects ......................................................10
4.4 An “individual” and an “individual’s animals”? ..............................................11
4.5 What are “reasonable needs”?
the Waitara or
Patea catchments as a result of quarry operations.
Both quarry sites appeared to be well maintained and managed with regard to environmental
matters.
As in previous years, the Company has demonstrated a high level of both environmental and
administrative performance and compliance with its consents and appropriate control over
the discharge of contaminants into waterways.
There were no incidents recorded in relation to operations at the Vickers quarry sites in the
the environment.
Section 4 presents recommendations to be implemented in the 2017-2018 monitoring year.
A glossary of common abbreviations and scientific terms, and a bibliography, are presented at the end of
the report.
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
of the monitoring programme in place for the period under review.
Each company’s activity is then discussed in a separate section (Sections 2 to 6).
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
location of the activity, and an outline of the matters covered by the company’s air
discharge permit.
Subsection 2 presents the results of monitoring of the