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
also assigns a rating as to each Company’s environmental and administrative performance during
the period under review. The rating categories are high, good, improvement required and poor for both
environmental and administrative performance. The interpretations for these ratings are found in
Appendix II.
For reference, in the 2021-2022 year, consent holders were found to achieve a high level of environmental
performance and compliance for 88% of the consents monitored through the Taranaki
Freshwater recreational bathing environmental monitoring report summer 2018-2019
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
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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
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
field of science for many people.
The programmes undertaken are extremely
wide-ranging and include national bird counts,
water quality measurement, pest free
programmes, wetland restoration, intertidal
diversity studies and lizard monitoring. I
expect schools to hear more about and have
greater involvement with citizen science in the
next few years.
Building developments are progressing at a
fast rate at Pukeiti with the official opening
expected in
Administrative charges
1.1(d), 2.1, 2.3, 5.4, 9.3, 9.5, 9.6,
9.7
Discharge of petroleum
dispersants into water or
onto land in the coastal
marine area
C2.4 • Dispersant is used in the event of a marine oil spill;
• Discharge is of a dispersant of petroleum approved for use in
marine oil spills by the Maritime Safety Authority;
• Dispersant is applied at the rates and by the methods
recommended by the manufacturer;
Permitted
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•
value is depreiated on a straight-line basis over its useful life. The useful life and associated depreciation rate for
the IRIS software suite is 10 years and 10%.
Where software in this category is replaced, upgraded or determined by RSHL to be of no further operational benefit, a change in
value will be recognised through the Statement of Financial Performance. This change in value will be the difference between
the carrying value of the original item and its fair value.
Critical