Committee.
3.2 In response to matters raised at previous Consents and Regulatory Committee
meeting, the agenda report details stakeholder and iwi interests for each monitoring
report.
Recommended
THAT the Taranaki Regional Council
1. receives the 18-06 STDC Wai-inu Beach Settlement Monitoring Programme Annual
Report 2017-2018 and adopts the specific recommendations therein.
2. receives the 18-05 Todd Petroleum Limited Mangahewa-C Hydraulic Fracturing
Monitoring Programme
of discussions with iwi
and hapū; and
recommend a path forward to establish the committees.
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Minutes Ordinary Meeting Tuesday 9 April 2019
Resolved
THAT the Taranaki Regional Council
1. receives the memorandum New Plymouth District Council (Waitara Lands) Act 2018
and duties and functions of the Taranaki Regional Council;
2. notes the Act requires the Council to constitute a Waitara River Committee for the
purposes of allocating funds
the region is READY.
And so it almost goes without saying that we are WILLING. All these projects I’ve just been
describing are fine examples of people-power. They’re driven by grassroots groups or iwi
organisations with vision, determination and Willpower.
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This willingness is also clearly evident in our own Council’s work with farmers and other
landholders across the region. Look at the take-up in our world-scale Riparian
Okahu-Inuawai
The tuturu takiwa of the Okahu-Inuawai hapū extends, "from seaward on the eastern mouth of the
Waingongoro awa to the Maunga, thence turning following the western side of the Wairere Stream back to
seaward, Tawhiti-nui, Hawaiki-nui, Tawhiti-roa, Hawaiki-roa, Tawhiti-pamamao, Hawaiki-pamamao. The hapū
claim that their whanaungatanga takiwa begins "from the mouth of the Waihi Stream of Ngati Ruanui Iwi in
the east, and extends to the mouth of the Inaha Stream of Ngati
acknowledged the
statements made by the iwi of the particular cultural, spiritual, historical, and traditional
association of the iwi with the statutory areas.
1.1 Purposes of statutory acknowledgements
The purposes of statutory acknowledgements are
(a) to require consent authorities, the Environment Court and the Historic Places Trust to have
regard to the statutory acknowledgements;
(b) to require relevant consent authorities to forward summaries of resource consent
applications for
This involves the use of current
RMA provisions to create a new freshwater policy,
planning and management regime that impacts
everything from farm practices to urban subdivision.
Implementing this regime will be the largest single
project in Council’s history.
The role of iwi
These reforms also give tangata whenua a greater
role in freshwater management by focusing on Te
Mana o Te Wai (the integrated and holistic well-
being of water) and requiring a partnership approach
to developing
levels, inflows and tailrace flows (generation flow
plus spill-flow) from the 2017/18 monitoring period 10
Figure 6 Average daily groundwater volume taken during the 2023/24 period 11
Figure 7 Pātea HEPS eel bypass system 15
Figure 8 Location of physicochemical and biological monitoring sites Lake Rotorangi 17
Figure 9 Map of the dominant macrophytes recorded in Lake Rotorangi on 16 April 2024 19
Figure 10 Screenshot of Manawa Energy website showing lake levels and lake usability 24
Figure
Programme is indeed an integrated, cost effective, fair, comprehensive, robust,
and scientifically-based programme designed and managed to deliver sustainable management of
natural and physical resources in Taranaki.
In September 2020 the Government released its freshwater package which included a greater
recognition of iwi values in resource management and more of a partnering role for the Council and
iwi going forward. Given this the monitoring strategy will be reviewed once
10. Resource Consents Issued Under Delegated Authority and Applications in Progress
10.1 Mr A D McLay, Director – Resource Management, spoke to the memorandum
updating Members of consents granted, consents under application and consent
processing actions, since the last meeting. The information was summarised in the
attachments. The reports provided more information on consultation undertaken with
iwi and the community.
Recommended
That the Taranaki Regional Council: …
and monitoring farmplans has been limited.
Outputs/Key performance indications
Performance measure Acutal performance
Planning services. Provide property planning services to
landholders. Prepare plans covering 1,000 hectares of
land use capability mapping in the hill country and 100
riparian plans in the intensive water management zone.
By the end of the period of this Plan it is intended to
have active or completed riparian plans in place for over
99% of