sites 46
Table 19 Summary of E.coli concentrations by well construction type 47
List of figures
Figure 1 Distribution of the main geological units of the Taranaki region (Brown 2013) 4
Figure 2 Monitoring site locations 6
Figure 3 Total cows numbers and stocking rates in Taranaki (1998 to 2016) 17
Figure 4 Average dairy cow production in Taranaki and nationally (1998 to 2016) 17
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sites 46
Table 19 Summary of E.coli concentrations by well construction type 47
List of figures
Figure 1 Distribution of the main geological units of the Taranaki region (Brown 2013) 4
Figure 2 Monitoring site locations 6
Figure 3 Total cows numbers and stocking rates in Taranaki (1998 to 2016) 17
Figure 4 Average dairy cow production in Taranaki and nationally (1998 to 2016) 17
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Figure 5 Schematic representation of the length of
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
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 likely effects on the
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amenity values of
Opunake Lake.
2. The rate of taking shall not exceed 3,900 litres per second.
3. The consent holder shall notify the Council within three working days of water first
being taken for the purpose of electricity generation. For clarity, where the conditions of
this consent refer to the date that consent is first exercised that date shall be the date that
water is first taken for the purpose of electricity generation.
4. The consent holder shall measure and record the
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
being insufficient remaining capacity
at the time. There is growing evidence that the rate of natural sediment transport into the harbour has
increased in recent years, resulting in the Company having to remove greater volumes when dredging.
There were no unauthorised incidents recording non-compliance in respect of this Company’s maintenance
dredging campaign during the period under review.
During the year, the Company demonstrated a high level of environmental and administrative …