significant costs but with little purpose or community benefit.
Proposed broad-brush national requirements for excluding stock from waterways fall short of what is actually required to reduce faecal contamination, and risk undermining successful and proven local initiatives such as Taranaki’s award-winning riparian planting and fencing programme.
It should be up to councils working with their local communities to decide which rivers and lakes are most important for swimming, whether and how urgently
The cleanfill was inspected during fine weather. It had rained in the days preceding. There were no dust or
odour issues and the inspecting officer noted that the site appeared to be tidy. The majority of the
consented cleanfill area appeared to have been reinstated into paddock or was used for storage. Some
material had been recently deposited at the cleanfill, but a visual inspection confirmed that there was no
prohibited material. The material had originated from the site itself. A
systems currently in operation in the province fall in to the
pressurised category. Pressurised systems can be further differentiated based on the
method of operation and equipment used. A summary of the systems encountered in
the region and some of their advantages and disadvantages are summarised below:
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K-line and long-lateral types – Impact sprinklers mounted on moveable laterals
(Photograph 1).
Advantages:
• low capital cost;
• are simple in
by a resource consent or a rule in a
regional plan, or it falls within some particular categories set out in Section 14.
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DH Lepper Trust holds Consent 0188-3 to cover the take of water from an unnamed
tributary of the Waiongana Stream for piggery operation purposes.
This permit was re-issued by the Council on 09 January 2002 under Section 87(d) of
the RMA. It is due to expire on 1 June 2020.
Three special conditions are attached to this consent.
be added as late items
Late items on the agenda. The Councils response is also noted:
Mana Whakahono a Rohe decisions – These decisions are not in
the scope of this committee and fall under the full Council.
Review of Delegated Authority Manual – This will be discussed
at the Māori relationships going forward workshop as there was
confusion as to whether the request referred to the Delegations
Manual or the Committee Terms of Reference. It was noted that a
Governance Handbook …
process areas and roadways, the stormwater collection and retention systems, stormwater sampling and
release records and inspections of the discharge point and receiving waters in the Herekawe Stream.
Scheduled inspections were carried out on 21 August and 5 November 2020, and 11 February and 20 May
2021.
Notes from these visits are summarised below. Records of production and incinerator operation were
inspected and found to be satisfactory.
21 August 2020
It was raining during the
containers and farm plastics. In a submission on the proposed new stewardship regime, the Council supported all six priorities, suggested that tangata whenua be involved in designing the product stewardship scheme, and urged the Government not to let the cost burden of any compulsory requirements fall back on local government. Consents & Regulatory agenda Nov 2019 (1.6 MB pdf) Policy & Planning agenda Nov 2019 (3.9 MB pdf)
quality (NES), and requires regional councils to demonstrate that air meets the standard. Taranaki is one of only two regions that has never exceeded the NES air quality guidelines, always falling into the Ministry for the Environment's categories of 'Acceptable' to 'Excellent'. Intensive ongoing air quality monitoring is therefore not required in Taranaki. What do we look for?
Since 1991, the Council has gathered air quality data at up to 20 representative sites across the region including urban,
Results
2.1 Inspections
14 July 2020
A winter Inspection was carried out during fine weather following a period of heavy rain throughout the
catchment. The influent screen was operating and wastes were fully contained. The main pond was
green/brown in colour with a slightly turbid appearance. Odour was noted as being ‘slightly noticeable’. In
excess of 250 Mallard ducks were present on the pond.
Both wetland pond levels were slightly high. These were green/brown in colour and slightly
and is then pumped to the effluent treatment plant and discharged via the
marine outfall. Stormwater from the tankage area is pumped over into the process sewers which flow to the
storm pond. The stormwater falling on the non-process areas of the western half of the site (Figure 1) is
directed by “v” ditches running alongside the roads to a dam/pond and then out to the Tasman Sea via the
Manu Stream. Stormwater falling on the eastern side of the site is directed to unnamed tributaries of the