Council to continually re-evaluate its approach
and that of consent holders to resource management and, ultimately, through the 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
consent holders to resource management and, ultimately, through the 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
will be found
to be significant purely by chance. In order to deal with this potential problem, the
Benjamini-Hochberg False Discovery Rate (FDR) method was applied to the results of
the Mann-Kendall test. Further justification for this statistical approach can be found in
Stark and Fowles (2006).
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Figure 1 SEM beach bathing bacteriological survey sites
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4. Results
From 1 November 2016 to 11 April 2017 a total of 13 samples
Vector, 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 Vector’s approach to demonstrating
consent compliance in site operations and management including the timely
provision of information to Council (such as contingency plans
Since 2002 stock numbers have remained static, but there has
been an increase in the use of supplementary feed. There has also been a large increase in productivity
per cow (>20% gain). Stocking rate per ha has increased only 4% in the decade 2002-2012.
The net effect of the historical expansion and intensification of dairying in the region is to increase the
amount of nutrients, sediment, and animal effluent being applied to the land and dispersed into water
bodies traversing the
Stocking rates have also increased. The
increases in cow numbers, stocking rate and
total area in dairy farming has generated
greater volumes of farm dairy effluent
requiring treatment or disposal.
Since the adoption of the Freshwater Plan in
2001, there have been significant changes in
community expectations relating to the
maintenance and enhancement of
3 Ministry for the Environment, October 1999.
4 Dairy farming has
quality criteria. Irrigation of wastewater during the year led to mass loadings of
nitrogen per hectare that were well in excess of those recommended by the Council and the description of
N loadings previously provided by RNZ. The rates of application in 2021-2022 raise questions about
whether the ability of pasture to take up nitrogen could be surpassed, and the timing and volume of
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irrigation events suggest that irrigation is being used as a means to prevent the
Council to continually re-evaluate its approach
and that of consent holders to resource management and, ultimately, through the 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
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 management including the timely
provision of information to Council (such as contingency plans and water take data) in accordance
enables the Council to continually re-evaluate its approach and that of consent holders
to resource management and, ultimately, through the 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