are embedded in the Council’s Regional Freshwater Plan for Taranaki, which sets out conditions and standards that must be met by those who take water from and/or discharge to rivers and streams. Note: This Plan is currently under review. Landowners are advised to contact the Council before undertaking developments involving any aspect of freshwater or waterways. Taranaki has a lot of waterways: 286 main river catchments and 530 named rivers. The two largest rivers - the Waitara and Pātea - drain
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Air quality
Air quality monitoring
Particulate matter
Nitrogen oxides
Volatile organic compounds
Carbon monoxide
THIS CHAPTER COVERS:
AIR
Clean, unpolluted air is essential to the well-being of Taranaki's
communities and to the environment as a whole.
Taranaki can be proud of its excellent air quality that contributes to the
attraction of the region as a safe place to live with an enviable lifestyle
and all the great outdoors has to offer.
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The Zero Possum project has entered an exciting new phase, featuring a high-tech farmland barrier and a few squirts of mayo. Taranaki Regional Council’s Towards Predator-Free Taranaki team has been working to eradicate possums between the Timaru Stream and the Hangatāhua (Stony) River since January 2023. The original farmland area between the Timaru and Oākura River has had no resident possum population for more than three years. So far they’ve removed almost 3500 possums from the extension
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Todd Petroleum Mining Company Ltd
Kapuni Production Station
Monitoring Programme
Annual Report
2018-2019
Technical Report 2019-63
Taranaki Regional Council
ISSN: 1178-1467 (Online) Private Bag 713
Document: 2354226 (Word) STRATFORD
Document: 2363644 (Pdf) February 2020
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Executive summary
Todd Petroleum
From Saturday, 9 November, bicycle racks will be temporarily unavailable on all Taranaki Regional Council-operated bus services. This is the result of a nationwide suspension issued by Bus and Coach Association NZ Inc. (BCA) following a safety alert from the New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) Waka Kotahi. The NZTA alert highlights a compliance issue with some bus models, where bike racks may partially obstruct headlights, creating a safety risk – even during daytime operations. Bus operators
farm dairy effluent onto land, and until 1 December 2022 after treatment in an oxidation pond
system into an unnamed tributary of the Mangaone Stream
Discharge Permit Bristol Road, Waitui Waitara
21-10388-1.1 10388-1.1 Greymouth Petroleum Turangi Limited 21-Dec-21 Extension of Lapse To discharge contaminants to air from hydrocarbon exploration at the Turangi-H wellsite, including combustion
involving flaring or incineration of petroleum recovered from natural deposits, in association with
National Objectives Framework
The National Policy Statement for Freshwater Management 2020 (NPS-FM) requires the Taranaki Regional
Council (TRC) to set environmental flow and levels for all of the region’s waterways (Figure 1). Environmental
flows and levels must be set as rules in plans. A flow can be considered the quantity, variability, flow, duration
and timing of flows or water levels to give effect to Te Mana o te Wai, the long-term visions and outcomes
set by the community
information: 0800 87 22 87 Hawera-New Plymouth Connector bus information: 0800 26 63 28 Contact Us Phone: 0800 736 222 Email an enquiry Council email: info@trc.govt.nz Council switchboard (incl Tūpare, Pukeiti & Hollard Gardens): 0800 736 222 or 06 765 7127 Environmental hotline (to report pollution): 0800 736 222 Taranaki Civil Defence: 0800 900 049 Taranaki Total Mobility: 0800 868 662 Street address Taranaki Regional Council, 47 Cloten Road, Stratford. Postal address Taranaki Regional Council, Private Bag
Both exotic and native forest plantation play an important part in soil conservation in the Taranaki region. About half of the 27, 278 hectares of exotic forestry in the region is established on erosion-prone land (14, 738 hectares). Forestry as a sustainable solution
Where land is suitable for growth and harvest, the Council advocates converting steep, erodible land to forestry. We can provide free Agroforestry Plans to farmers interested in establishing plantation forestry. These plans can
explore using the concept further.
3. Policy and Planning Committee Minutes – 24 November 2020
Resolved
That the Taranaki Regional Council:
a) receives the 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 24 November 2020 at 10.30am.
b) adopts the recommendations therein.
Littlewood/Walker
Matters arising
There were no matters arising. …