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
other hand has the youngest
population in the region with almost a quarter of its residents under the age
of 15.
According to the 2018 Census, 19.8% of the region’s population is Māori (up
from 16.5% in 2013), with 27.6% of the population of the South Taranaki
district being Māori (up from 24.3%).
At the end of June 2020, the unemployment rate across the region was at
4.3% with only small variations from one district to another (compared to 4%
nationally). Rates of
other hand has the youngest
population in the region with almost a quarter of its residents under the age
of 15.
According to the 2018 Census, 19.8% of the region’s population is Māori (up
from 16.5% in 2013), with 27.6% of the population of the South Taranaki
district being Māori (up from 24.3%).
At the end of June 2020, the unemployment rate across the region was at
4.3% with only small variations from one district to another (compared to 4%
nationally). Rates of
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 DAS, this report also
assigns them a rating for their environmental and …
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