Regional Land Transport Plan 2021/22-2026/27
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2.3 Your comments on the future sustainability and resilience of our transport networks: Officer’s comments
No, we pay enough rates as it is and the roads aren't in a state they should be. Why should we pay more when the funds
we already pay just get patches.
NPDC response: Waka Kotahi manage and maintain the
district’s State Highways. NPDC manage the local roads and
forecast that an increased maintenance
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. Administrative performance is concerned with the Company’s
approach to demonstrating …
improving or showing no significant
change, instream health does decline in the mid and lower
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Compulsory value How it’s measured How Taranaki’s water bodies rate
Unit A (Stony,
Maketawa, Rotokare)
Unit B (Mountain
& ringplain)
Unit C (Coastal
terraces)
Unit D (eastern
hillcountry)
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rs
Ecosystem
health
Nitrate toxicity A B B A
Ammonia toxicity
(two measures)
A A B A
A B B B
Dissolved oxygen A A A A
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Taking, use, damming and
diversion of surface water
RULES
Taking and use of surface water
Activity Rule Standards/Terms/Conditions Classification Notification Control/Discretion Policy
Reference
Taking and use of surface
water19
15 The rate of abstraction for any one property described in a
particular certificate of title shall not exceed 1.5l/s; or 5l/s for
ground based applications), or a GROWSAFE®
Registered Chemical Applicator’s Certificate
(for commercial spray operators), and any pilot
undertaking aerial application shall hold as a
minimum, a current Pilot Chemical Rating
Certificate issued by Civil Aviation Authority
(CAA), or other similar qualifications that meet
the requirements of Appendix VI .
Should not spray if the wind speed over the
area to be sprayed is less than one metre per
second (3
following
the same procedure as short vegetation, as fencing has been shown to result in rapid reductions in
sediment exports (McKergow, Weaver et al. 2003), although little is currently known about fencing
impacts on bank erosion rates (Hughes 2016), which will depend on stream size, bank height, and
bank material.
Index 3 was designed to more accurately quantify the effects of stream shading by riparian
vegetation by comparing shading to the relative width of the stream.
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
NPDC, 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
method for controlling possums on the Taranaki ring plain with
the vast majority of the ring plain now encompassed by the self help programme. However it is unlikely to be cost effective to apply the
programme to properties in the eastern hill country.
The Council proposes to maintain low possum numbers through a sustained control Programme, by continuing to maintain landholders
capacity to carry out control, but at a less intensive rate than properties in the self help programme. This will
grating system on the original outlet from the second pond was
undertaken in late 1999. This outlet was then sealed but was raised and re-opened in
2004 and was utilised whenever stormwater infiltration volumes increase effluent rates
beyond the capacity of the re-positioned outlet.
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Connection of the new saleyards’ partially treated wastes into the sewerage
reticulation was approved during the 2002-2003 period and has operated without
problems since the saleyards
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 consent 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 Company’s environmental and administrative performance.
Environmental