development of a community vision for freshwater management, and will feed into the Council’s Regional Policy Statement (RPS), which is currently under review. TRC Chair David MacLeod says Taranaki’s waterways are important in so many ways, with social, cultural, environmental and economic impacts for our community. “We want to build an ambitious and achievable long-term community vision.” He says this vision will help to guide policies for managing our freshwater bodies under the freshwater plan and may
determine whether there
is any consequent environmental or human health issue due to pesticides in surface waters
in Taranaki.
Executive summary
The Council’s Regional Freshwater Plan for Taranaki identifies the use of pesticides as an
activity that needs to be appropriately managed in order to safeguard the ecological health of
the region’s waterways and the health of those who rely on them, including through
municipal water supplies. Also, the National Environmental Standard for Sources of
catchments. The benefits of intact riparian
margins have long been acknowledged and are particularly beneficial in small
streams, where the beneficial influence of the riparian vegetation on instream habitat
is high (i.e. shade and associated benefits for periphyton growth and water
temperature regulation, organic matter input and stream edge habitats, and the
interception of sediment and nutrients in surface runoff).
The hyporheic zone (the water-land interface beside and beneath a small stream
Items of interest from this week's meetings of the Council's two key committees, Consents & Regulatory, and Policy & Planning: Sampling results show weather’s influenceThe weather’s influence on the state of rivers and streams is apparent in the latest report on physical and chemical monitoring of Taranaki waterway quality, alongside the continuing benefits of extensive riparian fencing and planting. The latest report covers the 2018-2019 year. Following a number of wetter than normal years, it
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Taranaki’s landscape is dissected by more
than 20,000 kilometres of rivers and streams.
2. Overview
2.1 THE TARANAKI CONTEXT
Taranaki has 20,000 kilometres of waterways and
no less than 530 named rivers and streams.
Taranaki also has 19 lakes with an area greater
than eight hectares and over 1,200 wetlands.
Over 300 rivers flow from the flanks of Mount
Taranaki in a distinctive radial pattern across the
ring plain.
metres
below a former sheep dip.
Contaminated soil can be transported to adjacent paddocks
and waterways through surface runoff (rainfall and irrigation
water) and wind-blown dust. Contaminated groundwater may
discharge into nearby waterways.
Human exposure
People can be exposed to organochlorine pesticides and
arsenic in soil through contact with contaminated soil, drinking
or bathing in contaminated water and eating contaminated
food produced on the property.
Sheep dips sites are
streams and critical source areas – risk of sediment and
pathogen run-off impacting the waterway
Winter grazing of crops – risk of sediment and pathogen run-off impacting the waterway
Winter grazing of crops – risk of nitrate-leaching impacting the waterway
Including catchment context information when selecting and categorising actions
The following actions are identified in the action selection process and included in the action plan
to address the risks identified above:
only) Telemetry information for consent holders (346 KB pdf) Submission on Action for Healthy Waterways The Taranaki Regional Council's October 2019 submission on the National Policy Statement for Freshwater Management (NPS-FM) and National Environmental Standards for Freshwater Management (NES) and the Stock Exclusion Regulations (SER) as outlined in the Ministry for the Environment discussion document Action for Healthy Waterways. TRC submission on Action for Health Waterways (5.1 MB pdf) (single
in Section 9
(Fees and charges) of
Form A
To install and/or use a culvert
in, on or over the bed of a river
or lake
To dam a stream
To realign or divert a waterway
To excavate, drill, tunnel,
disturb or deposit material on
the bed on a river or lake
To install a structure (that is not
one of the structures above)
To drill a bore or well
Total number of land use
consents applying for on this
form
Southern Hill Country - Comments on level of agreement on FMU
Not all waterways are included i.e. those which start/pass through noted significant wetland
areas. I can understand why the Patea is in a separate FMU but it does make the Southern Hill
FMU feel fragmented
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4.3.2. Pātea
Do you agree or disagree with the approach to create a Freshwater Management
Unit for the Pātea Catchment and how we’ve drawn it?
Figure 5: Pātea – Level of