effects were detected. By comparison with previous years, the monitoring indicated a decline
in NPDC’s environmental performance due to this incident.
During the year, NPDC demonstrated a good level of environmental performance and high level of
administrative performance with regard to the resource consent for the Urenui Beach Camp (2046-3). This
rating was influenced by the occurrence of the Unauthorised Incident. NPDC demonstrated high levels of
environmental and administrative performance
compliance by the Company, this
report also assigns them a rating for their 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
sustainable
yield basis. The concept of sustainable yield applies to both the quantity and quality aspects of
groundwater. With respect to quantity, sustainable yield means ensuring that the abstraction
rate does not cause long-term depletion of the groundwater resource…. The concept of
sustainable yield is implemented through the standards, terms and conditions contained within
regional rules
Through the procedures set out in the RFWP, the Council commits to:-
The monitoring of the
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 consent holder/s during the period under review, this report also assigns a rating
as to each
vigorously defend their territory all year round.
Nesting occurs between August and December, with sites including hollow
logs, rock clefts, cave ledges and clumps of vegetation. Nests usually
contain four to nine eggs, but the duckling mortality rate is high due to
predation and flooding. Their average lifespan in the wild is seven to eight
years and some have been known to live up to 12 years.
BLUE DUCK IN TARANAKI
Mt Taranaki provides a good habitat, and a population has
hill country still require support to move toward more sustainable practices, but even in the hill
country sustainable land use rates are high, at around 87%. Although there have been some instances of
increased scrub clearance related to favourable returns for meat and wool farming, there has been little
change in overall sustainability since 2007.
Soil health is vital for production and the Council works to safeguard the health and quality of the region’s
soils. Although Taranaki
for odour – the
frequency, intensity, duration, offensiveness, and
location of the event. In terms of the intensity of
a dust event being deemed offensive or
objectionable, it can be noted that in situations
involving exposure by the general public, the
experience of the Council is that a deposition rate
of more than O.13 grams per square metre per
day can lead to justified complaints. For
suspended dust, an ambient concentration of
around 3 mg per cubic metre is the point at which
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 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. …
been detected as a result of the non-compliances. The Council is
continuing to liaise closely with NPDC regarding the situation.
During the year, NPDC demonstrated a good level of environmental performance and a high level of
administrative performance with the resource consents for the Urenui Beach Camp (2046-3) and the Onaero
Bay Holiday Park (1389-3). This rating was influenced by the occurrence of the unauthorised incidents
during the monitoring period, noting that there has been no …
Operations and Regulatory Committee Agenda July 2023