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 exceed that of the permitted activity (Rule 48).
Rule 49 provides for groundwater abstraction as a controlled activity, subject to two
conditions:
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an exceedance of the suspended solids limit on the Company’s stormwater
discharge consent.
During the year, TBS Coatings Limited demonstrated a good level of environmental and
high level of administrative performance with the resource consents. One dust complaint
was received, but this was not substantiated at the time of investigation. However, an
exceedance of the dust deposition rate was observed in one of the five gauges deployed,
which was likely to be a result of re-suspended yard
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 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.
waters were typically disposed of by release into surface streams.
Today, approximately 95% of produced waters in the US are disposed of via underground
injection at an estimated volumetric flow rate on the order of 10 million m3/day (Otton and
Mercier, 2012).
2.1.1 Regulatory Scheme
USEPA regulations are the minimum foundation for the regulation of DWI in the US. Given
the size of the US and the various industrial operations that occur there and utilize DWI for
the disposal of waste
the impact of
invasive plants and animals.
Habitat loss (through land
clearance and drainage) has
historically been the main
pressure on biodiversity. While
the rate of land clearance and
drainage has declined in recent times, the
ongoing loss and modification of remnant
habitats remains an issue, particularly on
privately owned land in Taranaki. Even
small losses of habitat can now have a
disproportionate impact on remaining
biodiversity – not only in terms of remnant
sites
the period under review, this report also assigns a
rating as to each Company’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 Company’s approach to
demonstrating consent compliance in site operations and management including the
timely provision of information to Council (such as contingency plans
utilisation, to move closer to achieving sustainable
development of the region’s resources.
1.1.4 Evaluation of environmental 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 actual or likely effects on the receiving
environment from the activities
settlement pond (after the wash area) was being cleaned
at the time of the inspection.
Stormwater and groundwater were being pumped from the floor of the quarry to the
third pond of the upper ponds settlement system. A moderate rate of discharge was
occurring from the final (sixth) pond to the tributary but there were no visual
impacts of this tributary on the appearance of the Kurapete Stream at the boundary
of the mixing zone as stream flow was high and turbid. Sampling of the wastewater
compliance, monitoring
and enforcement metrics for the regional sector |
Managing the
workload
13-15, 18 * Councils collectively receive 29143 complaints, of which
25,314 (87%) are responded to, (33% in person, the rest via
other means).
* Councils report relatively low rates of complaint verification
(as low as 17%) which may be driven by a range of
reasons
* Councils administered a total of more than 200,000 active
resource consents for the reporting year, of