Water
Māori freshwater values
Surface water quantity
Groundwater quantity
Groundwater quality
River water quality
Aquatic ecosystems
Lakes and wetlands
Estuaries
Coast
Recreational use of rivers, lakes and beaches
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Kia ora koutou and welcome to Our Place: Taranaki State
of
terms of
planting and fencing waterways, protecting wetlands, safe effluent disposal and more. What
else can we do? It’s a struggle to understand what putting water quality first will mean.
Farmers have already done an enormous amount such as fencing off waterways,
creating wetlands and preventing effluent overflows. There needs to be some
acknowledgement that good practices are already being followed.
Unfortunately Te Mana o Te Wai gives greater importance to something living in the
7.2.2.2 Connett Road West 40
7.2.2.2.1 Connett Road discharges to NPDC wetlands system 40
7.2.2.2.2 Connett Road West stormwater 41
7.2.2.3 NPDC industrial drain 42
7.2.2.4 NPDC wetlands discharges to Mangati Stream 44
7.3 Evaluation of performance 45
8 Nexans New Zealand Ltd 47
8.1 Site description 47
8.2 Results 48
8.2.1 Inspections 48
8.2.2 Results of discharge monitoring 48
8.3 Evaluation of performance 49
9 OMV New Zealand Ltd 51
9.1 Site description 51
recording use of
synthetic nitrogen
fertiliser to provide
Taranaki Regional
Council in July 2022.
Feedpads and stock
holding standards apply.
1 July 2023
1 July 2025
Stock must be excluded from lakes
and rivers wider than 1m anywhere
in the land parcel as follows.
• Dairy support cattle on any terrain
• Non-intensively farmers beef cattle
and deer on low slope land
• All beef, dairy, dairy support cattle,
deer and pigs from wetlands that
support a
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Application No. Consent No. Applicant Lodged Date Application Type Description Activity Type Location Catchment
23-05845-2.0 R2/5845-2.0 Fonterra Limited 10-Oct-23 New consent
To use and maintain a dam and associated fish pass on the Tawhiti
Stream for water intake purposes Land Use Consent 339B South Road, Hawera Tangahoe
23-11167-1.0 R2/11167-1.0 Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency 10-Oct-23 New consent
To undertake vegetation clearance within a natural inland wetland
during the
Papa-Kura-o-Taranaki, native forest gives way to rolling pasture with large areas of riparian
margins along the many rivers and streams. Numerous small lakes and tarns, along with more than 2,500
mapped wetlands are dotted across this FMU. Wetland condition and type varies significantly owing to
significant drainage over the years as well as diversion and piping of natural watercourses. This FMU also
contains the Hangatahua River (Stony River) which is a regionally identified outstanding freshwater
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NPS-FM DEFINITIONS
loss of value, in relation to a natural inland wetland or river, means the wetland or river is less
able to provide for the following existing or potential values:
(a) any value identified for it under the NOF process; or
(b) any of the following, whether or not they are
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Executive summary
South Taranaki District Council (STDC) operates a municipal wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) located on
South Road at Opunake, in the Otahi and Heimama catchments. This is a three-stage treatment system
comprised of a primary oxidation pond, a wetlands treatment system, and a subsurface, reticulated soakage
trench system that subsequently discharges to an unnamed coastal stream between the Otahi Stream and
the Heimama Stream. This report for the period
81 – 87 Carthew Street and 2333 South
Road (State Highway 45), Ōkato Kaihihi
23-11165-1.0 R2/11166-1.0 Taranaki Iwi Holdings Limited Partnership 4-Oct-23 New consent
To construct an artificial wetland in the bed of a
stream Land Use Consent
81 – 87 Carthew Street and 2333 South
Road (State Highway 45), Ōkato Kaihihi
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APPENDIX IIB
APPENDICES
Appendix IIB
Values of regionally significant unprotected wetlands in the Taranaki region56
Wetland Area Ecological values Other natural and amenity values
Alfred Road 150 ha A mosaic of swamp forest and forest associated with the uneven
drainage of the debris flow.
A previously logged remnant of forest on debris flows adjoining
Egmont National Park.
Clarke Road Swamp 6 ha Forest, semi-natural