Policy and Planning Agenda July 2023
Policy and Planning Agenda July 2023
Policy and Planning Agenda July 2023
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
holder is still rated as ‘poor’ in the 2012-2013 year as well. There were three unauthorised incidents in relation to site activities resulting in the issuing of an abatement notice and an infringement notice. The overall rating for this site for the monitoring period is “poor”. Significant improvements were made during the 2012-2013 year following enforcement action by the Council. However, the initial mismanagement of the site was significant enough to warrant a poor rating for the entire
fencing and contractors since the project began. This programme has no equal in New Zealand and is transforming the region’s landscape as well as protecting and enhancing waterway quality. The rate of implementation of riparian work is accelerating and to date, farmers have completed 3,558km of new fencing and 1,766km of new riparian planting. In total, 80% of stream banks are fenced and 65% of streambanks are vegetated. The Taranaki Regional Council has a comprehensive
fencing and contractors since the project began. This programme has no equal in New Zealand and is transforming the region’s landscape as well as protecting and enhancing waterway quality. The rate of implementation of riparian work is accelerating and to date, farmers have completed 3,558km of new fencing and 1,766km of new riparian planting. In total, 80% of stream banks are fenced and 65% of streambanks are vegetated. The Taranaki Regional Council has a comprehensive
planted if Atrazine, Simazine, or Carragard are also applied. Atrazine and Carragard have proved unsafe with seedlings raised in peat pots. Release spraying of trees will normally be necessary 4-6 months after planting. Young container-grown seedlings of some Eucalyptus species can be affected by even low rates of Carragard and extreme care is required when using this chemical not to exceed 3 kg/ha active ingredient (terbumeton and terbuthylazine). Simazine at 1.5 kg/ha a.i. appears to be safe on
abbreviations and scientific terms, and a bibliography, are presented at the end of the report. 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 receiving environment from the
and extent of compliance by the consent holder/s during the period under review, this report also assigns a rating as to each Company’s environmental and administrative performance. page 3 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
Agenda for Ordinary Council meeting October 2017.
improvement in the Trust’s environmental and administrative performance is required. During the year under review inadequate maintenance of the treatment systems on the discharges resulted in a breach of the suspended solids limit on the consent. The unauthorised discharges caused a conspicuous change in the visual clarity of the tributary below the site. An abatement notice was issued and re-inspection found that the abatement notice had been complied with. Ratings are as defined in Section 1.1.4.