assigns an overall rating
as to the Company’s environmental and administrative performance.
Environmental performance is concerned with actual or likely effects on the
receiving environment from the activities during the monitoring year.
Administrative performance is concerned with the Company’s approach to
demonstrating consent compliance in site operations and management including the
timely provision of information to Council (such as contingency plans and water take
data) in accordance
indicator bacteria analysis. Following
the diversion of municipal wastewater from Waitara to New Plymouth, green-lipped mussels
from three reef sites were analysed for norovirus.
The monitoring showed that activities at the WWWTP complied with consent limits on daily
discharge rate and various parameters in the discharge.
Marine ecology survey results showed no detectable impact of the Waitara Marine Outfall
discharge on the local intertidal community over the last twenty years in terms of
performance 49
9.3 Monitoring plan effectiveness 49
9.4 Monitoring other effects of this Plan 50
9.5 Plan Review 50
10 Funding 51
10.1 Introduction 51
10.2 Funding sources and reasons for funding 51
10.3 Anticipated costs to the Council of implementing the Plan 51
10.3.1 General rate and investment revenue 51
10.3.2 Recovery of direct costs 51
10.3.3 Funding limitations 51
Glossary 53
Appendix A: Pest Management Line 58
Appendix B: Self-Help Possum
should these sites be converted to pasture.
Indigenous forest
As previously noted, we have discontinued the practice of comparing indigenous sites to
target values as they can be highly variable in soil quality indicators and there is generally
little that can be done to manage indicators that are outside target values. Nevertheless,
we still encourage sampling of indigenous sites as they form a baseline for rate of change
in other land uses.
It is interesting to note that
Table 2 Location of sample points for Manutahi-D wellsite 14
Table 3 Details of groundwater sampling sites 15
Table 4 Results of injectate sampling undertaken by the Council (2014-2015) 16
Table 5 Summary of volumes of waste discharged by DWI (2014-2015) 17
Table 6 Summary of the rate and pressure of the waste discharged by DWI (2014-
2015) 17
Table 7 Range of contaminants in injectate sampled in 2014-2015 19
Table 8 Results of groundwater sampling undertaken by the Council (2014-2015) 22
administrative performance
Besides discussing the various details of the performance and extent of compliance by
the consent holder during the period under review, this report also assigns a rating as
to the Company’s environmental and administrative performance.
Environmental performance is concerned with actual or likely effects on the receiving
environment from the activities during the monitoring year. Administrative
performance is concerned with the Company’s approach to demonstrating
Waiwhakaiho, were the two most popular
river sites across the survey. Meanwhile, lake sites such as Lake Rotokare, Rotorangi and Ratapiko remain
popular for particular activities, including boating, jet skiing and camping.
Access to water recreational sites across the region was deemed to be relatively good, with 87% of
questionnaire respondents saying they had been able to access the sites they wanted, and 85% rating
overall levels of access as being good or excellent. The main factor determining …
Lake Rotorangi is due to be performed in
the 2020-2021 period.
Lake condition, in terms of lake productivity, continued to be within the category of mesotrophic to possibly
mildly eutrophic (mildly nutrient enriched). However, taking into account the influence of suspended
sediment in this reservoir, and the moderately low chlorophyll levels, the classification is more appropriately
mesotrophic. Previous trending of these water quality data over time found a very slow rate of increase in
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 likely effects on the receiving
environment from the activities during the monitoring year. Administrative
performance is concerned with the Company’s approach to demonstrating consent
compliance in site operations and
implications of wastage. This was especially evident in the industrial sector, and several
local businesses affiliated to large companies with head offices overseas noted that
environmental management was built into their systems.
There are however, significant areas where awareness is not high or opportunities to recycle
are limited, and also anecdotal evidence of poor practice in some sectors.
This points to the need for educational programmes targeting areas where recycling rates (if