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 STDC, this report also
assigns them a rating for their environmental and administrative performance during the period under
rate of abstraction shall not exceed 1.5l/s;
The bore shall be located not less than 500m from the sea or
adjacent bores;
The well shall be located not less than 25m from the sea or
adjacent wells or surface water bodies;
The well or bore shall be located not less than 50m from any
effluent treatment pond, septic tank, silage stack or pit.
Permitted
Taking and use of groundwater (continued)
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assigns a rating as to each 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 with
2018. It is proposed to
set the rates for 2018/2019 at the same Ordinary Meeting.
Decision-making considerations
Part 6 (Planning, decision-making and accountability) of the Local Government Act 2002 has
been considered and documented in the preparation of this agenda item. The
recommendations made in this item comply with the decision-making obligations of the Act.
Ordinary Meeting to hear submissions on the 2018/2028 Long-Term Plan - Hearing of Submissions on the Consultation
initiatives implemented to date in the waste plans have had an effect in
reducing the amount of waste disposed per person. However, within each district, an
increase in waste disposed per person occurred over the last two years in South Taranaki
whereas Stratford and New Plymouth disposal rates continued to reduce in 2020/2021.
Figure 1 shows the decrease in total tonnage disposed to Colson Road Landfill in recent
years and since 2019, from Council facilities to Bonny Glen landfill. This decrease
no person may take, use, dam or divert any
water, unless the activity is expressly allowed for by resource consent or a rule in a
regional plan, or it falls within some particular categories set out in Section 14.
The Council determined that the application to take groundwater fell within Rule 49
of the Regional Freshwater Plan for Taranaki (RFWP) as the rate and daily volume of
the groundwater abstraction may have exceeded that of the permitted activity (Rule
48). Rule 49 provides for
install and operate a recording device for
water abstraction rates and to provide the records to the Council.
Conditions 2, 3 and 4 address abstraction during low flow conditions.
Condition 5 sets out review provisions.
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Water permit 5847-1 allows the Company to take and use up to 19,440 cubic
metres/day [225 litres/second averaged over 15 minutes] of water from a water
intake structure in the Patea River for cooling and power station purposes. This
permit was
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composition of the produced fluid slowly changing
from that of primarily fracturing fluid to primarily in situ formation fluid (e.g.,
hydrocarbons and some salty water). How long it takes to essentially recover the
fracture fluids depends on several factors, primarily the overall production flow rate
(higher is better), the producing gas/fluid ratio, and nature of the geologic materials.
The volume of fracture fluid that is recovered in initial return flow, and then
subsequently over time in the