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Minutes of the Ordinary Meeting of the
Taranaki Regional Council, held
Taranaki Regional Council Chambers, 47
Cloten Road, Stratford, on Tuesday 15
August 2017 at 10.45am.
Present Councillors D N MacLeod (Chairperson)
M J Cloke
M G Davey
M P Joyce
D L Lean (Deputy Chairperson)
C L Littlewood
M J McDonald
D H McIntyre
B K Raine
N W Walker
C S Williamson
Attending Messrs B G Chamberlain (Chief
inspection.
Surface water from recent rain was discharging via three of the open trenches to the coast. Several (known)
boggy areas discharging from the north trench line were contributing to ponding that was visible from the
main highway.
The Hector Place pumping station and the emergency overflow structure were also inspected and found to
be satisfactory.
6 November 2018
An influent flow of approximately 5 L/s was occurring at the time of the inspection, the influent screen was
our rivers, flow and water level
changes and riparian habitat damage.”
The breadth of NIWA’s work on freshwater gives an indication
of the complexity and range of human impact.
For example, teams of scientists are working on ways to
treat human wastewater in towns and on farms, installing
fish passages in channelled waterways, reducing the flood of
rain channelled by urban and road stormwater, calculating
downstream impacts of water take, building wetlands and
riparian strips to stop
stream gaugings.
The monitoring indicated that the operation of the sluicing of the weir has improved, with flows not falling
below 151 L/s. There was one unauthorised incident recording non-compliance in respect to the water take
consent between 30 July and 5 August 2022. Due to a lightning strike which destroyed the scheme’s
electronics, OWSL were required to take water in manual operation mode, which resulted in a breach of
abstraction rate until OWSL could fine-tune the process. The
Mary Gray
42 Pia Rockell
43 Jenny Murphy
44 Emma Parker
45 Julie Lumsden
46 Gillett Troy
47 Simon Raine
48 Keith Wills
49 Geoffrey Hobson
50 Robert Taylor
51 Rachel Eckersley
52 Charl van der Heever
53 Joanne Massey
54 Nigel Cliffe
55 Jean Mallinson
56 Dr Keith and Mrs Shirley Blayney
57 Marcon Wood
58 Carol Franklyn
59 Jocelyn Kruitbosch
60 Graham Cochrane
61 Wilfred Ivan Cudlipp
62 Gordon Sole
63 Michael Bonner
64 Ben Bonner
65 Laura Elizabeth
66 Alison Rumball
67 Peter
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Minutes of the Policy and Planning
Committee Meeting of the Taranaki
Regional Council, held in the Taranaki
Regional Council Chambers, 47 Cloten
Road, Stratford, on Tuesday 5 February
2019 at 10.35am.
Members Councillors N W Walker (Committee Chairperson)
M P Joyce
C L Littlewood
D H McIntyre
B K Raine
C S Williamson
D N MacLeod (ex officio)
Representative Councillor G Boyde (Stratford District Council)
Members Mr J
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Minutes of the Ordinary Meeting of the
Taranaki Regional Council, held
Taranaki Regional Council Chambers, 47
Cloten Road, Stratford, on Tuesday 7
August 2018 at 10.40am.
Present Councillors D N MacLeod (Chairperson)
M J Cloke
D L Lean (Deputy Chairperson)
C L Littlewood
D H McIntyre
B K Raine
N W Walker
C S Williamson
Attending Messrs B G Chamberlain (Chief Executive)
A D McLay
Nitrogen also enters the Irrigation Area with rain and clover fixation.
4.4 Total volume of irrigation liquid irrigated onto the Irrigation Blocks
The irrigation liquid is pumped from the pond to the irrigator through a buried pipeline. The pumping flow rate
was measured by BTW company in 2015 as 30 m3/hr1.
1 Uruti Composting Facility Management Plan, BTW Company Limited, 2015. (provided as Appendix J of the Application for
Consent Renewal)
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Irrigation Block
some instances fall below the national bottom line for a number of attributes. Recent trends show a
decline in the state of freshwater over the past ten years. Key challenges for Taranaki include:
a. E. coli – we are currently falling well short of national swimmability targets, with 19 of the
22 (86%) river monitoring sites sitting within either band D or E. Modeling indicates that
significant reductions in E. coli loads will be required to meet minimum standards and see
Taranaki climate hazards & extremes - high winds & tornadoes (NIWA, 2007).