abbreviations and scientific terms, and a bibliography, are
presented at the end of the report.
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1.1.3. The Resource Management Act (1991) and monitoring
The Resource Management Act 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
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• standards/terms/conditions;
• classification;
• notification;
• control/discretion; and
• policy reference.
Activity
The activity column describes the type of activity to be, or being, undertaken. For the
activity to come within and continue to comply with the rule, the activity must come
within the description contained in the `activity' column and meet any
standards/terms/conditions in the `standards/terms/conditions' column (see below).
The appendices contain the resource consents held by the consent holder, the
biomonitoring reports and the Mi Swaco supplied annual 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
(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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(c) ecosystems, including effects on plants, animals, or habitats,
conversation on freshwater quality, Taranaki
continues to see impressive gains. The Council’s own
monitoring and trend analyses, reported during the
2017/2018 financial year and subsequently, paint a
consistent picture: Continued improvements, or at the
very least no deterioration, in the ecological health of
the waterways we monitor.
Ecological health is regarded as the prime measure of
freshwater quality. And given the tone of the national
discussion on levels of
proposes a uniform annual general charge
of $60.38 (GST inclusive) on all separately used or
inhabited parts of a rating unit in the region to produce
$3,212,010 (GST inclusive).
Separately used or inhabited part of a rating unit
(SUIP): A SUIP is defined as a separately used or
occupied part of a rating unit and includes any part of a
rating unit that is used or occupied by any person,
other than the ratepayer, having a right to use or
inhabit that part by
2013-2014 monitoring
year.
A glossary of common abbreviations and scientific terms, and a bibliography, are
presented at the end of the report.
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1.1.3 The Resource Management Act (1991) and monitoring
The Resource Management Act 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
for the year under review included four inspections,
four sets of water samples collected for pesticide analysis, two biological surveys of receiving
waters, and a marine ecology inspection. DAS carried out air emission sampling and
groundwater monitoring through independent consultants and further storm water sampling,
and forwarded the results to the Council for audit and review.
The monitoring showed that DAS has had no significant impact on air quality in the vicinity of
the plant or
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If your day-to-day activities involve the collection,
processing or storage of materials such as oils, solvents,
acids, paints, foodstuffs and other chemicals, please
consider how your activity could potentially pollute the
environment.
What causes pollution?
Poor storage and handling of materials at your site may
be causing some of these common problems:
• Discolouration of, or an oily sheen, on stormwater
run-off
• A messy storage area where lids have been left
reducing the risk and severity of flooding as a result of
severe weather.
The Council has worked alongside landowners to
prepare sustainable land management plans for 840 hill
country farms, covering 67% of hill country land in
private ownership.
Alongside these efforts, the Council also continued to
work with communities and industry across the region
to reduce or eliminate impacts from point-source
discharges, and taking enforcement action when