irrigation or
municipal water supply to enable them to
comply with any consent limits. It is also
important for ensuring that water allocated
for use is done so in a way that provides for
other freshwater values, such as ecosystem
health.
Under the NPS-FM, water use is managed
by setting environmental flows and levels,
taking into account any changes that are
likely to occur as a result of climate change.
Limits can then be set on the rate and
amount of water taken, and where and
when
addition to discussing the various details of the performance and extent of compliance by the consent
holders, this report also assigns a rating for 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
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,
this report also assigns them a rating for their environmental and administrative performance during the
period under review.
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,
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
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
Coastal Plan submissions A-F
rodents and possums in urban areas where there is
co-ordinated pest control. Monitored bush reserves in New
Plymouth with regular rodent control recently achieved
a monitoring rate of less than 10% (rodent tracking rate).
Although there is still work to do, this is considerably lower
than the 40-50% regularly recorded in small rural bush
remnants (<50ha), or the over 75% recorded in large areas
of contiguous bush (>300ha) without effective rat control.
Rat abundance in
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 as contingency plans and water take data)
undertaking successful enforcement
action.
Commentary/Highlights
Consent holders are assessed each year on their environmental performance and on consent compliance. The performance is
publicly reported. Overall ratings for consent holders in the 2018/2019 year were found to be 83% ‘high’ and 13% ‘good’.
Reporting of the 2017/2018 programmes was completed, with the final suite of annual reports presented to Council in April
2019. Ninety-seven annual reports together with four
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.