compliance monitoring. The inspection was undertaken with
sampling of surface waters and soil. At the time of inspection approximately 11 mm of rain had fallen at the
site overnight. This had resulted in the surface being damp and the Haehanga Stream and associated
unnamed tributaries being turbid and slightly elevated. Weather conditions were still, warm with total cloud
cover. Rain was falling intermittently throughout the sampling run. The inspection found that the paunch
pond had approximately
Positive The site is in good vegetative condition.
Other Management Issues
Weeds - Medium There are many weeds impinging on the values of this site
including climbing asparagus, wandering willy, wild ginger,
Japanese honeysuckle, African clubmoss, brush wattle and wild
cherry.
Predators - Medium Predators such as rats, mustelids, possums, hedgehogs and feral
cats will be having an impact on the site.
Possum Self-help The site falls outside the rural Possum Self
Taranaki Regional Council meeting agenda May 2020
fishing expeditions,
and no surprises all the aunts had their special fishing places too - the
pear tree, the quince, the apple tree, the wire, the papa, to name a few.
4 As children my siblings and I had very strict instructions not to make
noise or let our shadow fall on the water, where the net was. What was
caught was shared among whanau as this was a welcome customary
practice. It doesn't seem that long ago. Back then the mud wasn't
smelly and we could freely mould and shape objects,
climber, the longfin eel can climb steep falls and is found in almost
all of New Zealand’s waterways from sea level to 1150m altitude and up to
314km inland. Habitats include streams, rivers, wetlands and lakes.
Juveniles prefer shallow fast-flowing water with coarse substratum, while
adults are more common under the cover of river banks or large debris in
slower flowing water.
Longfin eel only
breed once in
their life. Adult
males mature at
around 25 years
rain which was
noted on a couple of inspections in case ponding occurs.
Luscombe
15.2 ha
6 ha
4.4 ha
1.2 ha
1.2 ha
Ballance Agri-Nutrients
Luscombe
11.2 ha
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2.2.2 Discharge monitoring
2.2.2.1 Effluent volume
Special Condition 2 of consent 0597-3 limits the volume discharged to 1,470 m³/d. The Company measures
and records daily the effluent volume sprayed on each irrigation plot and forwards this data to the Council.
By
year. The volume
of waste to landfill peaked at 65,257 tonnes in 2013-2014
What we know
and reduced significantly from 2015 when all three
district councils aligned their recycling collection services
and created a regional materials recovery facility in New
Plymouth to process recyclables. In 2014, the waste to
landfill in the region per person was 595kg falling to 311kg
per person in 2020-2021.
In Stratford and South Taranaki, there has been additional
monitoring bore GND2103 varied in
response to abstraction from GND2010. When abstraction volumes increase over the summer months the
groundwater levels fall in response and during the winter months, when abstraction decreases, the
groundwater levels recover.
In summary, groundwater level monitoring data gathered by the Council does not indicate any long-term
reduction in shallow or deep groundwater levels as a result of the abstraction authorised by consent 7470-
1.2. As such, the potential for
DISTRIBUTION, BREEDING AND FEEDING
Banded kokopu are primarily a lowland species but can penetrate up to
180km inland, and to elevations of 550m. This has allowed them to
establish some landlocked populations in lakes in central New Zealand.
They are exceptional climbers and can scale steep falls to reach higher
catchments.
Preferred habitats
for adult banded
kokopu are small
tributaries with
plenty of forest
cover. Unlike other
kokopu, they don’t
seem
range of specific resource consent compliance
programmes. We have also committed to permanent iwi representation on the Council’s two main standing
committees. This is currently being progressed through Treaty of Waitangi settlement legislation.
There are eight iwi whose rohe or tribal area falls
either wholly or partially within the Taranaki region.