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If your day-to-day activities involve the handling of
concrete and other cement based products, you should
consider the effects your activity may have on the
environment.
What causes pollution?
Poor work practices while handling fresh concrete or
while undertaking concrete cutting can cause
environmental problems. Most common is the
discharge of waste water onto the ground and into the
stormwater system from:
• Washing the chutes of concrete mixing trucks
• The
show most measures are improving or not changing significantly, and are again the best since our measurements began. This is no accident. The Taranaki community continues to invest heavily in measures that protect and enhance the region’s waterways. The benefits are now becoming more apparent and the Council remains firmly focused on working with the Taranaki community to continue improvement in the region. I invite you to read this report on the most recent findings of Council’s extensive water
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 landscape, amenity and visual
the decision- making provisions of the Local
Government Act 2002 to the extent necessary in relation to this decision; and in
accordance with section 79 of the Act, determined that it does not require further
information, further assessment of options or further analysis of costs and
benefits, or advantages and disadvantages prior to making a decision on this
matter.
Littlewood/McIntyre
4. Offshore subtidal Rocky Reefs of Pātea Bank
4.1 Ms A J Matthews spoke to the Memorandum
Annual Plans set out the Council's yearly programmes and budgets, as foreshadowed in the Long-Term Plan immediately preceding them. Annual Plan 2023/2024 Download the full Plan, or see the rating information or the schedules of charges. Annual Plan 2023/2024 (5.2 MB pdf) Annual Plan 2023/2024 (5.2 MB pdf) Schedule of charges Annual Plan 2023 2024 (519 KB PDF) Annual Plan 2022/2023 Download the full Plan, or see the rating information or the schedules of charges. Annual Plan 2022/2023 (3.7 MB
Oākura locals Clive Saleman and Libby Baker have seen first-hand what a predator-free environment looks like. They visited Ulva Island off Stewart Island to experience the abundant birdlife in 2016. “The forest floor was covered in seedlings and there were birds everywhere. Wood pigeons and New Zealand robins were happily feeding on the path around our feet. Saddlebacks hopped and flitted nearby, and countless bellbirds, kākā and tui were singing all around,” says Clive. “And what helped get it
Long-Term Plan 2018/2028 Download the Plan in its entirety, or sections containing details of rates and charges, as well as the consultation document used during the submissions process. Long-Term Plan 2018/2028 (5.1 MB pdf) Rates & charging info, and consultation document Long-Term Plan 2018/2028 (5.1 MB pdf) Rates information 2018-2019 (567 KB pdf) Schedules of charges (603 KB pdf) Long-Term Plan 2018/2028 Consultation Document (5.7 MB pdf) Long-Term Plan 2015/2025 Download the Plan as a complete
and by industry and communities eliminating waste discharges to waterways, or significantly reducing their impact. We’re talking about millions of dollars and thousands of hours of work. And in the case of farmers, it’s been voluntary. But there’s more work ahead of us. The Government is taking a fresh approach to freshwater management, and new requirements have started to emerge. Those of you involved in activities that may affect rivers and streams should already be aware that new regulations
waste, earthworks, river crossings, forestry quarrying, harvesting, mechanical land preparation, replanting, slash traps, dust and fuel storage & refuelling. Form 230: Forestry activities (1.8 MB pdf) (single document only) Form 230: Forestry activities (1.8 MB pdf) Forms 100-120 Form 101: Poultry discharge to land/water/air (1.1 MB pdf) See more forms Form 101: Poultry discharge to land/water/air (1.1 MB pdf) Form 110: Discharge contaminants to water or land (including Coastal Marine Area) (1.1 MB