Requirements for Good Farm Management document. Through
the consenting process, farm dairy effluent systems are now generally required to
divert effluent to land, i.e. 96% of the consent were approved subject to discharging
to land or subject to conditions that the farm dairy effluent disposal would (in full
or in part) be discharged to land after a transition period.
Council and farmers on intensively farmed land continue to progress stock
exclusion and riparian planting on the ring plain and
Māori Values
Mātauranga Māori can be translated as meaning ‘Māori knowledge’ or ‘traditional knowledge’,
however, this single translation does not adequately capture the nuances and multi-faceted
dimensions of this phrase. It is effectively captured by Bay of Plenty Regional Council in their
document ‘He Korowai Mātauranga - Mātauranga Māori Framework’ when they state:
Mātauranga Māori
Mātauranga Māori not only refers to the knowledge that Māori have, but encompasses
the
meet the required
consent conditions and surface and groundwater results indicate no adverse impacts from
stockpiling or spreading at this site. Ongoing monitoring of the site will ensure that all
wastes comply with conditions that are to be applied at the time of relinquishment or expiry,
prior to surrender of the consent being accepted by the Council.
During the year, the Company demonstrated an overall high level of environmental
performance and compliance with the resource consents.
Council indicates that the hydraulic fracturing activities
undertaken by STOS had no adverse effects on local groundwater or surface water resources.
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There were no Unauthorised Incidents recording non-compliance in respect of the resource
consents, or provisions in regional plans, during the period under review.
STOS demonstrated a high level of both environmental and administrative performance and
compliance with the resource consents over the reporting period.
Riparian zones are the strips of land beside drains, streams, rivers and lakes. They
include areas on-farm where the soils are wettest, such as wetlands, springs or seeps,
and gullies.
Finish your riparian plan by 2020
The Taranaki Regional Council (TRC) is committed to working with land owners to
ensure all Taranaki streambanks are protected by riparian (streamside) fencing and
planting on the Taranaki ring plain and coastal terraces by 2020. Millions of riparian
plants need
native animal species and 99
native plant species whose natural ranges include Taranaki and which have been
listed as ‘threatened’, ‘at risk’ or ‘regionally distinctive’;
Secure a full range of sites that provide core habitat for threatened, at risk or
regionally distinctive species;
Maintain the areal extent of systems that are historically rare or representative of a
threatened ecosystem type where native vegetation is now reduced to 20% or less
for that
second survey, conducted
in February–March 2012, was taken at Port Taranaki,
a site also subject to heavy vehicles and marine
influence.
What’s the story?
In the Port Taranaki survey, 97% of PM10 daily
average results were within the MfE’s 'Excellent' or
'Good' categories. Only one result was within the
'Acceptable' category.
In the New Plymouth CBD survey, 56% of the daily
average results were within the MfE’s 'Excellent' or
'Good' categories, with 40% of results
reaches of developed and farmland catchments. Higher turbidity and suspended
solids levels (and therefore poorer visual clarity) characterised the eastern hill country Mangaehu,
Whenuakura and Waitara Rivers sites in these rivers’ lower reaches.
Over the 2016-2017 monitoring year, flows at times of sampling were much higher than usual, with no
flood or very low flows sampled. In general terms, for the eleven sites monitored for more than 10 years,
water quality was comparatively poorer in
and includes the Executive Summary and the
Recommendations from the report as an appendix.
A presentation on the report will be made at the meeting.
Executive summary
The Council’s ‘Regional Freshwater Plan for Taranaki’ (October 2001) states as two of its
objectives for the region, ‘to maintain and enhance the quality of the surface water resources
of Taranaki by avoiding, remedying or mitigating the adverse effects of contaminants
discharged to land and water from
notices issued during the two year period. These non-compliant events
were a mixture of unauthorised incidents (generally sewage discharges to water), and non-
compliance with consent conditions (mostly elevated suspended solids, biological oxygen
demand, or low chlorine concentrations). It is anticipated that improved compliance with
consent conditions will be achieved in the next monitoring period now that upgrade work is
complete.
Elevated norovirus levels were detected in mussel flesh