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 their
interventions and any evidence of a change in attainment of the NPS-FM
swimmability criteria; the very high rate of attainment of swimmability in Taranaki
if assessed against EU criteria instead of NPS-FM criteria; and the absence of any
correlation between nutrient trends and macroinvertebrate community health
trends
4. notes the report’s findings highlight the potential dangers of a ‘one size fits all’
problem analysis and solution imposition to water quality interventions at a
national level
at Port Taranaki during the year. One of which
involved a tallow spill from the GrainCorp Liquid Terminals NZ Ltd (GrainCorp) site within Port Taranaki,
which led to discharges of tallow and untreated wastewater into the Port Taranaki Harbour. The Council are
proceeding with a prosecution over the incident.
During the year, Downer, Technix, NZOSL and Methanex obtained a high rating for environmental and high
rating for administrative performance and compliance with the resource consents. …
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Appendices
Appendix 1: Charging Policies
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 $94/hr $89/hr
Professional/supervisory staff $118/hr $110/hr
Managers $171/hr $160/hr
Support staff $94/hr
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Appendix 6: Charging Policies
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 $92/hr $87/hr
Professional/supervisory staff $116/hr $108/hr
Managers $168/hr $157/hr
Support staff $92/hr $87/hr
Directors
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 consent holder
during the period under review, this report also assigns a rating as to the Company’s environmental and
administrative performance.
Environmental performance is concerned with
current year. They also generate 319 full-time equivalent jobs
(FTEs).
The Port’s important enabling role can be seen from the estimates that its users and
service providers are likely to generate $353 million in Value Added (GDP) the current year,
and 929 FTEs.
The Port also plays an important role in other ways. It facilitate the imports and exports
of the Region’s industries, the dividends it pays help to keep the Regional rates burden in
check, and it sponsors and supports
low flow conditions during the
monitoring period (at which time the Manaia system had been upgraded with the addition of
two wetlands, the Kaponga pond subsurface discharge rate was very low and receiving water
dilution very high, and the Patea upgraded ponds system discharged continuously), or on
other occasions when monitoring of impacts was required by specific consent conditions. This
monitoring continued the increased frequency of bacteriological receiving water surveys in the
lower
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 of
the groundwater abstraction might exceeded that of the permitted activity (Rule 48).
Rule 49 provides for groundwater abstraction as a controlled activity, subject
(titled “A6: Entries
Aligned"), or were unaligned (titled “A7: Entries Unaligned"); and
(e) A graph showing daily windspeed compared with diary entries with
an intensity rating of greater than 0 titled “A8: Windspeed and Odour
Entries”.
14 A substantial portion of entries recording odour (44%) were identified as not
being aligned with conditions conducive to odour propagation from the site.
Most often this was due to the entries being made while the observation
address