in the Kahouri Stream catchment, a tributary of the Patea River. The Company currently processes
beef. Wastewater is treated in a two pond system, which is either irrigated to land when conditions allow, or
to the Kahouri Stream during high flow conditions. This report for the period July 2016 to June 2017
describes the monitoring programme implemented by the Taranaki Regional Council (the Council) to assess
the Company’s environmental and consent compliance performance during the period
resilient to existing or potential threats
Management threats and response
Potential and actual threats to the sustainability of the Lake Kairura’s
ecological values are as follows:
Threats to ecological
values
Level of
risk
Comment
Pest animals Medium to
high
Possums, cats, mustelids, hedgehogs, and rats
Weeds Low
Habitat modification Low to
medium
Grazing is a threat on unfenced margins
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Site protection measures
consent
holder for Council audit have been used in compiling this report.
The Council did not receive any complaints or register any unauthorised incidents
associated with any of the Company’s DWI activities during the 2012-2013 monitoring
period. The Company has demonstrated a high level of environmental performance and
compliance with the resource consents exercised during this period.
For reference, in the 2012-2013 year, 35% of consent holders in Taranaki monitored through
Flora
The forest canopy is dominated by tawa with occasional individuals or small stands of miro, pukatea,
kohekohe, pigeonwood and rimu (including a few large emergent rimu trees). The understory is
dominated by kanono with a mix of other species including kawakawa, pate, pigeonwood, mahoe and
tree ferns. Ground cover, climbers and epiphytes are common. Notable flora includes Kirk's tree daisy,
kingfern, three species of threatened rata and the 'Regionally Distinctive" tawhirikaro.
particular the small Policy team.
Recommended
That the Taranaki Regional Council:
1. receives the memorandum Ministry for the Environment – current work programme
2. notes the many areas of interest or concern to the Council.
Littlewood/MacLeod
3. Report of the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment on Overseer
and regulatory oversight
3.1 Mr G K Bedford, Director-Environment Quality, spoke to the memorandum
introducing a report prepared by the
alteration, extension, maintenance, or removal of up to three offshore
wellhead platforms and associated pipelines 22
Table 9 Summary of performance for Consent 5997-1 to discharge treated
stormwater from Pohokura Production Station to the Duck Pond 23
Table 10 Summary of performance for Consent 6002-1 to discharge emissions to air
from combustion of fuel gas and miscellaneous emissions at Pohokura
Production Station 24
Table 11 Summary of performance for Consent 6003-1 to discharge
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;
(c) ecosystems, including effects on plants, animals, or habitats, whether aquatic or
terrestrial;
(d) natural
Zealand generally accepted accounting practice (NZ GAAP).
BASIS OF
PREPARATION
As the primary objective of the Council and Group is to provide goods or services for community and social benefit, rather
than for making a financial return, the Council and Group are public benefit entities for the purpose of financial reporting.
The financial statements of the Council and Group have been prepared in accordance with and comply with Tier 1 Public
Benefit Entity (PBE)
Revision No:1.5
Date:12-6-2020
Controller: C Kay
1.0 Purpose of the Plan
The purpose of this document is to ensure the operation of the Uruti farm is managed appropriately
using Good Management Practices and operates within regulatory rules and resource consent
conditions. A major focus of this plan is to avoid, remedy or mitigate the loss of nitrogen to surface
water and ground water from irrigated wastewater onto the effluent block.
2.0 General
The Uruti farm was purchased in 2001
fracturing
activities undertaken by Todd have had no adverse effects on local groundwater resources.
There were no unauthorised incidents recording non-compliance in respect of the resource
consent, or provisions in regional plans, during the period under review.
Todd demonstrated a high level of environmental and administrative performance and
compliance with the resource consent over the reporting period.
For reference, in the 2014-2015 year, 75% of consent holders in Taranaki monitored