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
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
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
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
Freshwater recreational bathing environmental monitoring report summer 2018-2019
magmatic fluids in a volcano. Changes in the amount or rate of ground deformation may signal the start of a new eruptive episode. There are numerous ways to measure such deformation, like precise levelling, tilt measurement and position triangulation. Continuous Global Positioning System (CGPS) measurements provide time-series, high precision data for deformation monitoring. Satellite- based Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) is a relatively new technique for measuring ground
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
of compliance by the consent holder during the period under review, this report also assigns a rating as to the cxonsent holder’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 consent holder’s approach to demonstrating consent compliance in site operations and management including the timely
page 69 APPENDICES Appendix 1: Resource Management Act Charging Policy SCHEDULE OF CHARGES PURSUANT TO SECTION 36 OF THE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT ACT 1991 SCHEDULE 1: SCALE OF CHARGES FOR STAFF TIME Rate for processing resource consents and responding to pollution incidents. Rate for all other Council work. Professional staff $88/hr $83/hr Professional/supervisory staff $112/hr $104/hr Managers $162/hr