New regulations to protect wetlands were introduced in the National Environmental Standards for Freshwater 2020 (NES-F) as part of the Government’s Essential Freshwater reforms. For decades, protecting wetlands’ water quality and biodiversity values has been a priority for the Council and we have worked with Taranaki landowners to protect and enhance the region’s precious wetlands through our riparian and biodiversity programmes. Wetlands – swamps, marshes, bogs and the like – are the meeting
New regulations to protect wetlands were introduced in the National Environmental Standards for Freshwater 2020 (NES-F) as part of the Government’s Essential Freshwater reforms. For decades, protecting wetlands’ water quality and biodiversity values has been a priority for the Council and we have worked with Taranaki landowners to protect and enhance the region’s precious wetlands through our riparian and biodiversity programmes. Wetlands – swamps, marshes, bogs and the like – are the meeting
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Resource Consent Application
(For a consent to discharge contaminants into the environment
pursuant to sections 15 and 88 of the Resource Management Act 1991)
Discharge Permit
To discharge from a poultry farm
Important: Please read carefully before completing the form
All applicants need to respond to all of the questions. If a particular section is not applicable to your
application,
recreation grade for the period November 2014 to April 2019 5
Table 4 Beach sites sampled during the 2019-2020 bathing season 7
Table 5 Statistical summary for Onaero Beach (at the Surf Club) 12
Table 6 Performance against guidelines at Onaero Beach (at the Surf Club) 12
Table 7 Statistical summary for Waitara East Beach 15
Table 8 Performance against guidelines at Waitara East Beach 15
Table 9 Statistical summary for Waitara West Beach 18
Table 10 Performance against …
These legal submissions are made on behalf of Taranaki Regional Council (TRC)
and address the following questions that have arisen during the hearing:
(a) Does the existing environment include the effects of the existing consent?
(b) Is it open to the hearing panel to apply a permitted baseline?
(c) Does the proposed activity fall within Rule 52 of the Regional Air Quality
Plan for Taranaki (RAQP)?
(d) Is possible future residential zoning of the surrounding area part of the
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Taranaki Regional Council Monthly Rainfall and Environmental
Data Report for August 2022
02 September, 2022
Provisional Data Only. Note: some sites record a number of parameters
1. Rain gauge values throughout the region
Note: Taranaki co-owns rain-gauges with Horizons, so we can assess rainfalls right-out
over the Eastern Hill Country.
Map1: Rain gauge sites
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Table 1: Rainfall monthly and year to date totals at 27 rain gauge sites in
Taranaki has just completed a high-tech aerial laser survey creating an exact 3-D map of the surface of the entire region. Taranaki Regional Council has worked with Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) on the ground-breaking LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) survey to gather land-surface and elevation data. The data will be used to generate high-definition 3D maps and models that will have a wide range of uses in environmental management and planning, managing natural hazards,
After applicants have checked the Taranaki Regional Council’s plans and policy statements for an overview of the rules and resource management issues they need to find out which tāngata whenua groups might be affected by their proposed activity. When the relevant tāngata whenua groups have been identified it’s important to check whether those groups have a hapū and iwi management plan in place, and if so read it. These planning documents describe the resource management issues of most
It was a month of contrasts for the weather in Taranaki in January with a couple of weeks of cool, wet and windy conditions followed by dry and warmer weather and ending with huge downpours across the region. Rainfall was on average 193.5% of the long-term average, ranging from 89% at Kotare at O’Sullivans to 547% at Whanganui at Mataimona Trig. Rainfall was highest in the south-west ring plain area, and in the south and eastern parts of the hill country. Kaupokonui at Glenn Rd has already
The environmental performance of consent holders is closely monitored by the Council, with results reported to the community. The Council’s scientific and technical officers prepare 100-plus monitoring reports each year, most of them annual, biennial or triennial compliance reports covering large individual consent holders in most cases, or a number of smaller consent-holders – within a particular catchment, for example. There are also reports covering one-off activities such as exploration