refinement of methods
and considered responsible resource utilisation, to move closer to achieving sustainable development of the
region’s resources.
1.1.4 Evaluation of environmental and administrative performance
Besides discussing the various details of the performance and extent of compliance by the Company, this
report also assigns them a rating for their environmental and administrative performance during the period
under review.
Environmental performance is concerned with actual or
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Project Risk/Opportunity Management
Description Effect Mitigation Strategy
Risk Rating
(unmitigated)
Actions currently being taken
Lack of a clear strategy
and timeline for
engagement on key
strategic issues.
Engagement in this sense is
the two way discussions
needed to obtain external
stakeholder input on key FW
programme and FW Plan
elements.
Engagement requirements
for FW are significantly
higher than previous TRC
now.
Southern monitoring reveals possum hot spots
We are currently completing possum monitoring in the
South operation. There have been several hot spots with
catch rates well above required levels. In some areas it
appears there has been little or no control work done,
which is disappointing. These farmers are making it
harder and more expensive for their neighbours, who are
working hard to keep numbers low.
As a result, an increased number of Notices of Direction
have been
accordance with State of the
Environment monitoring requirements. The 2013-2014 programme continued to incorporate
these changes. A later consultant’s report (in 2000) re-confirmed trends (using up-dated
methodology) that the lake was phosphorus limited and remained mesotrophic. Further trend
reporting for the period 1990-2006 was provided as a component of the consents renewal
process and suggested that while there has been a very slow rate of increase in trophic level,
the lake would be
N (NZTM)
3.4 Legal description of property at site of activity (refer to land title or rates notice)
Lot1 SS6265 Sib Sec 47 Borough of Opunake Blk IX Opunake SD
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3.5 Assessment/Valuation number of property (refer to land title or rates notice)
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4 Location
irrigation areas and groundwater monitoring points 5
Figure 3 Location of SFF Waitotara meat processing plant showing
irrigation areas and groundwater monitoring points 6
Figure 4 Average daily abstraction rate October 2012 - September
2014 13
Figure 5 Conductivity, ammonia and nitrate at groundwater
monitoring points, 1994-2014 18
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1. Introduction
1.1 Compliance monitoring programme reports and the Resource
Management Act 1991
1.1.1
Plymouth has increased, with housing affordability decreasing, this is at a lower
rate than the national average.
Figure 4.6: Housing Affordability Index comparison against others
New Plymouth has a lower housing affordability index than the national average. The New Plymouth
HAI is 6.15 which is less than the New Zealand HAI of 7.85 and significantly less than Auckland which
is 9.02. The HAI for South Taranaki is lower than New Plymouth and Stratford which increased in 2021
to 6.15
the
region’s resources.
Evaluation of environmental and administrative performance
Besides discussing the various details of the performance and extent of compliance by STDC, this report
also assigns them a rating for their environmental and administrative performance during the period under
review.
Environmental performance is concerned with actual or likely effects on the receiving environment from the
activities during the monitoring year. Administrative performance is concerned
experienced the intensification seen in some other regions. For
example, the total number of milking dairy cattle in 1998/1999 was 481,034 (nearly 15% of the
nation’s milking herd) and by 2013/2014 it was still only 493,361 (10% of the national herd). Likewise,
stocking rates have hardly changed, from an average of 2.8 cows per hectare in 1998/1999 to 2.85
cows per hectare in 2013/2014. These are lower stocking rates than the national average. The
pressures on land use are not
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