compiling this report.
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The Council did not receive any complaints or register any unauthorised incidents
associated with any of the Company’s DWI activities during the 2013-2014 monitoring
period.
During the year under review Todd Energy Limited demonstrated a high level of
environmental performance and a high level of administrative performance and compliance
with the resource consents.
For reference, in the 2013-2014 year, 60% of consent holders in Taranaki
(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 visual effects;
(c) ecosystems, including effects on plants, animals, or habitats, whether aquatic or
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1 Introduction
1.1 Compliance monitoring programme reports and the Resource
Management Act 1991
1.1.1 Introduction
This report is for the period July 2018 to June 2019 by the Taranaki Regional Council (the Council) on the
monitoring programme associated with resource consents held by Waste Remediation Services Ltd here
after referred to as (WRS) or (the Company). The Company operates a landfarm situated on Lower Manutahi
Road at Manutahi,
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 visual effects;
(c) ecosystems, including effects on
the
environment.
Section 4 presents recommendations to be implemented in the 2013-2014 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:
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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
Environment
2016
2. notes the release of the report ‘Our marine environment 2016: Data to 2015’, by the
Ministry for the Environment and Statistics New Zealand
3. expresses the Council’s concern to the Ministry for the Environment and Statistics
New Zealand over the nature and tone of the report, in particular that the report
focuses on particular actual or potential issues rather than present a well-rounded
overview of our marine environment, is in parts speculative or generic rather than
Until May 2014, the site was known as Riverlands Eltham. The plant has an
associated wastewater treatment system from which treated effluent is disposed of either to land or to the
river. This report covers the Company’s processing season from October 2017 to September 2018 and
describes the monitoring programme implemented by the Taranaki Regional Council (the Council) to assess
the Company’s environmental performance during the period under review. The report also details the
results of the
ecology, geomorphology, geology,
geography, hydrology and policy as well as
having local knowledge and familiarity with
the Taranaki coastal environment.
The following areas have been identified as
having outstanding natural character (ONC)
and/or as an outstanding natural feature and
landscape (ONFL) through this study.
ID
Area of outstanding natural
character
New or
existing area
ONC 1 Parininihi New
ONC 2 Mimi Estuary Existing
ONC 3
Paritutu, Ngā Motu (Sugar Loaf
ecology, geomorphology, geology,
geography, hydrology and policy as well as
having local knowledge and familiarity with
the Taranaki coastal environment.
The following areas have been identified as
having outstanding natural character (ONC)
and/or as an outstanding natural feature and
landscape (ONFL) through this study.
ID
Area of outstanding natural
character
New or
existing area
ONC 1 Parininihi New
ONC 2 Mimi Estuary Existing
ONC 3
Paritutu, Ngā Motu (Sugar Loaf