TRC’s proposal to boost its capacity (Option 1) in order to advance an
improvement in water quality across the region in line with the Government’s
requirements and public aspirations is supported. Fish & Game supports the
proposed increases in specialist scientific, technical and cultural capacity
needed to meet the new requirements and also the planned boost in land
management services to help farmers and landowners reduce their
environmental impacts. The provision of extra
report includes the results and findings of the monitoring programme implemented by the Council in
respect of the consents held by the Company that relate to abstractions and discharges of water within the
Patea catchment, and the air discharge permit to cover emissions to air from the site.
One of the intents of the Resource Management Act 1991 (RMA) is that environmental management should
be integrated across all media, so that a consent holder’s use of water, air, and land should be …
understand where we are at and what we
need to do next.
The Resource Management Act 1991 requires regional
councils to monitor the state of the environment. Reports
like this can help us to answer important questions about
the quality of our environment, the effectiveness of our
programmes, and our future direction. This is our fifth State
of Environment report since the first in 1996, and follows
our last report in 2015.
Over the past few months, we have
d. Discharge Permit for the discharge of contaminants onto or into land restricted by
s15(1)(b) (where contaminants may reach water) and s15(d) (where the discharge is from
industrial or trade premises) of the Resource Management Act 1991 which is not
expressly provided for in Rules 21-42 or does not meet the standards, terms or conditions
and any other discharge of contaminants to land which is provided for in Rules 21-42 but
which does not meet the standards, terms or
Director – Resource Management
A J Matthews Director – Environment Quality
Ms K Holland Communications Adviser
Miss L Davidson Committee Administrator
Two members of the media, Mr M Watson, Taranaki Daily News and Mr C
Ashworth, Te Korimako o Taranaki.
Apologies An apology was received from Councillor M J McDonald.
Notification of There were no late items.
Late Items
Confirmation of Minutes – 18 May 2021
Resolved
That the Taranaki Regional Council:
takes
basis and this will next be
monitored during the 2020-2021 year.
One of the intents of the Resource Management Act 1991 (RMA) is that environmental management should
be integrated across all media, so that a consent holder’s use of water, air, and land should be considered
from a single comprehensive environmental perspective. Accordingly, the Council generally implements
integrated environmental monitoring programmes and reports the results of the programmes jointly. This
report discusses …
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State of the environment monitoring ................................................................................................................................................................. 9
Resource investigations and projects ................................................................................................................................................................. 11
Sustainable land management plans and plant supply programme …
Dairy Effluent disposal
R2/4020-4.1 Dow AgroSciences (NZ) Limited Air - Industry Manufacturing and Processing Pesticide Manufacture
R2/4365-3.0 Buchan Gardens Trust Water - Animal Waste Agriculture Farming - Dairy Effluent disposal
R2/4701-2.2 Ratarock Station Trust Land/Water - Animal Waste Agriculture Farming - Dairy Effluent disposal
R2/6529-2.0 David George Cooper Land - Misc Property Development Waste Management Wastewater - Sewage
R2/6630-2.0 Paul Roydon Gyde Land - Misc …
[22].
48 Policy 3-2(2) NPS-FM. Refer also Policy I "Freshwater is managed in a way that gives effect to Te
Mana 0 Te Wai".
49 Sustainable Matat v Bay of Plenty Regional Council [2015] NZEnvC 90. Discharge of town
wastewater to land - in a worst-case scenario there would be no attenuation of Nitrogen and Phosphorus
before the wastewater surfaced in farm drains and there could be an increase in Nand P pumped from
farm drains into the Channel, thus entering the Tarawera River.
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Land
Environment
Priority 4 – Threatened Species
Regional: Key Native Ecosystem
Representative site for
management
Regional
Ecosystem Loss:
Chronically threatened 10-20%
left
Acutely Threatened <10% left
Protection Status: Local Government
Catchment: Mimi (400)
General Description
Mangamaio is a privately owned 45.5ha bush block of various forest types, 10km east of Urenui in the