country, is now included in the Council’s sustainable land
management programme;
• 97% of Taranaki soils have only low to moderate vulnerability to soil
compaction and while there is evidence of soil compaction on some
Taranaki farms this is usually only under wet winter conditions and is
generally reversible with appropriate pasture and stock management.
There do not appear to be any signifi cant problems with soil carbon
content, phosphate, nitrogen, cadmium or residual or
Introduction 1
1.1.2 Structure of this report 1
1.1.3 The Resource Management Act 1991 and monitoring 2
1.1.4 Evaluation of environmental performance and administrative compliance 3
1.1.5 Quarrying in Taranaki 4
1.2 Resource consents 7
1.2.1 Water discharge permits 7
1.2.2 Water abstraction permits 7
1.2.3 Discharges of wastes to land 7
1.2.4 Summary of resource consents held for Taranaki quarries 8
1.3 Monitoring programme overview 11
1.3.1 Introduction 11
The impacts of other land and
water use practices such as the loss of riparian
margins, the construction of barriers to fish
passage, water takes, and discharges from
point or non point sources to land or water
have also contributed to the loss or
degradation of indigenous freshwater
biodiversity in the region.
Nationally, through the National Policy
Statement (NPS) for Freshwater Management and
the Proposed NPS for Biodiversity there is a
requirement for councils to safeguard the
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Resource investigations and projects ..................................................................................................................................................................... 10
Waste minimisation ........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 12
Sustainable land management plans and plant supply
The Council’s monitoring programme for the year under review included two inspections assessing the
types of materials being received and how the discharge to land was being managed. In addition to this, an
incident investigation and an incident follow-up inspection were undertaken.
The routine monitoring indicated that the green waste discharge was being well managed in accordance
with the management plan, and the required records were being kept. Inorganic material occasionally
entrained
working with dairy and other intensive pastoral farmers since 1994 to fence,
planting, and/or retire riparian margins on the ring plain and coastal terraces.
As part of the Sustainable Land Management Programme and the South
Taranaki and Regional Erosion Support Scheme (STRESS), Council has been
working with hill country farmers since 1995/66 to improve land management
practices and, amongst other things, minimize the escape of sediment from
erosion prone land into waterways.
… Williamson
New Plymouth
Tom Cloke
New Plymouth
David Lean
Deputy Chairman
New Plymouth
Donald McIntyre
North Taranaki
Michael Joyce
South Taranaki
David MacLeod
Chairman
South Taranaki
Your regional councillors
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Mihi whakatau
Welcome David MacLeod, TRC Chairman
Presentation of awards
Ÿ Environmental action in education
Ÿ Environmental leadership in land
management
Ÿ Te taiao me te pākihi
– Environmental leadership in business
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with the building
blocks of a new, combined Regional Freshwater and Land
Management Plan now firmly in place. In its draft form, the
plan signals a switch to land disposal as the norm for dairy
effluent treatment, and also proposes to lock in completion
of the Council’s world-scale Riparian Management
Programme by mid 2020. Notably, and in contrast to some
other regions, it does not propose to introduce nutrient caps
and limits beyond the mandatory requirement. Our research
suggests there
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Resource investigations and projects ....................................................................................................................................................................... 9
Waste minimisation ........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 11
Sustainable land management plans and plant supply
financial information included in this
memorandum has been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting practice.
Policy considerations
This memorandum and the associated recommendations are consistent with the policy
documents and positions adopted by this Council under various legislative frameworks
including, but not restricted to, the Local Government Act 2002 and the Land Transport
Management Act 2003.
Regional Transport Committee - Minutes of the Regional