activities [emphasis added], but
excludes low density free-range poultry.
Low density free range poultry means the keeping, rearing or breeding of poultry (whether
for the purpose of raising poultry for human consumption or for egg production) where:
birds have permanent access to open air runs;
permanent vegetation cover exists on the land where birds are permitted to range;
the stocking rate of the runs to which the birds have access does not exceed 1.5 birds
including chickens
groundwater. More research is needed to find out where
these connections may exist in Taranaki and the significance
of any impacts from groundwater nutrient contributions in
surface water systems.
• Storing hazardous substances under cover, and on a
sealed pad above ground
• Correctly using pesticides and fertiliser to prevent leaching
• Disposing of waste to appropriate recycling or
landfill facilities
• Spreading effluent onto land at a rate soil and plants
can
Freshwater recreational bathing environmental monitoring report summer 2018-2019
Agenda for Ordinary Council meeting September 2017.
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 for
Services, spoke to the memorandum to receive,
consider and adopt the Council’s 2017/2018 Annual Plan – Statement of Proposal, the
consultation document for the 2017/2018 Annual Plan – Statement of Proposal, for public
consultation, and the 2017/2018 estimates.
6.2 The key points in the 2017/2018 Annual Plan – Statement of Proposal were highlighted to
the Council, being:
A 1% general rates increase against a proposed increase of 0.5% for 2017/2018 in the
2015/2025 Long-Term Plan
consent holders, this report also assigns a rating as to each Company’s
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
isolation valves have been installed on the disposal lines for use should it
be necessary to remove the disposal line valves for maintenance. An accessible
sampling site has been constructed at the end of the disposal trenches.
STDC reported that a sludge survey of the oxidation pond (in January 2006) indicated
that at the current rate of accumulation, sludge removal would not be required for
another 11 years.
An updated Management Plan (July 2007) was supplied by the consent holder for the
both
environmental and administrative performance and compliance with resource consents 6135-1
and 5325-1, and a good level of administrative compliance for consent 5935-1. There was one
incident recorded by the Council in relation to the Company’s landfarming operations at the
Spence Road site under consent 5935-1. This incident was operational rather than
environmental in nature, and has been dealt with effectively by the Company, but affects their
overall compliance rating for that
1.3.2 Water abstraction permit (groundwater)
Section 14 of the Resource Management Act 1991 (RMA) stipulates that 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