of the time. There were two occasions when CCCWSL were required to use their
exceptional use limit of 79 L/s due to the reservoir levels falling below 80%. In both these instances CCCWSL
advised Council and affected parties of this requirement, as per their consent conditions. Figure 2 shows
CCCWSL’s abstraction for the 2021-2022 monitoring period.
Figure 2 CCCWSL abstraction rates for 2021-2022
2.4 Hydrological inspections and residual flow assessment
CCCWSL provides telemetered
Change team are creating an
action plan to target reduction of key waste streams, system improvements,
and education.
Figure 1 Sorted waste from the NPDC Civic Centre Waste Audit
NPDC Zero Waste Fund – latest funding round
9. NPDC runs a Zero Waste Fund for community initiatives that will minimise
waste. The current round is open for applications from 1 October to 31 October
2024. Priority for this funding round will be given to those projects that fall in
the upper two levels of
as
significant enough to move to option 2. Government support for the increased costs
was requested. The Council will continue to explore avenues for additional funding
of these costs, but ultimately they fall on the general ratepayer.
A number of submitters wanted the Council to go further and quicker with
particularly heavier involvement of Māori in decision-making and implementation of
the changes. This latter issue is being addressed through the Ensuring Māori
Operations and Regulatory Agenda September 2024
Groundwater Quality State of the Environment Monitoring 2015-2020
person may take, use, dam or divert any
water, unless the activity is expressly allowed for by a resource consent or a rule in a
regional plan, or it falls within some particular categories set out in Section 14.
Ballance holds three permits to abstract water.
1.3.1.1 Waingongoro River
Ballance Agri-Nutrients (Kapuni) Ltd holds water permit 0596-3 to take water from
the Waingongoro River for operation of an ammonia/urea plant. This consent was
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issued
Council that the ground conditions
were in line with the consent conditions (23 and 24) of the expired consent. Further, a stormwater sample
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was collected from pooled rain water which demonstrated no elevated contaminants were present in the
sample. The Council’s position was that the works did not result in any on-going discharge of contaminants
to the environment as a process of the skimmer pit development.
Additional surface water samples are proposed in the
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Discussion 4.
The chemical composition of groundwater is determined by a number of influences.
These include the mineralogy of the soil and rock types forming catchments or
aquifers, aquifer structure, the source and volumes of recharge water, aquifer
residence times, overlying landuses and biochemical process.
Groundwater aquifers in Taranaki are predominantly recharged by rainfall falling on
the land surface, but recharge can also occur via infiltration from
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