Mangamahoe.
For reference, in the 2022-2023 year, consent holders were found to achieve a high level of environmental
performance and compliance for 878 (87%) of a total of 1007 consents monitored through the Taranaki
tailored monitoring programmes, while for another 96 (10%) of the consents a good level of environmental
performance and compliance was achieved. A further 27 (3%) of consents monitored required improvement
in their performance, while the remaining one (<1%) achieved a rating of
It was suggested that an annual catch up around forestry is arranged and to
include someone in Regulatory from TRC.
Stratford District Council will be going out for consultation on a targeted rate for
forestry land.
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3. State Highway activities – project updates from Waka Kotahi
The updates were provided in the agenda and were taken as read. The
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Project Risk/Opportunity Management
Description Effect Mitigation Strategy
Risk Rating
(unmitigated)
Actions currently being taken
Lack of a clear strategy
and timeline for
engagement on key
strategic issues.
Engagement in this sense is
the two way discussions
needed to obtain external
stakeholder input on key FW
programme and FW Plan
elements.
Engagement
and reputation enhancement for companies that consistently attain good or
high levels of environmental performance. Informed feedback is appropriate and valuable, and
assists a proactive alignment of industry’s interests with community and Resource Management
Act 1991 expectations.
• A respectful and responsible regard for the Taranaki region’s environment and our management
of its natural resources. Reporting allows evaluation and demonstration of the overall rate of
majority of takes being well managed and operating within relevant consent
conditions during the 2022-2023 period. The Council was required to enter three incidents in relation to
irrigation consents over this period, with all non-compliances deemed sufficiently minor not to warrant
further action from Council. The overall rate of non-compliance across all exercised consents was 7%, which
was the same as that seen during the 2021-2022 period.
During the 2022-2023 year, 93% of exercised
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consents for discharges from mobile abrasive
blasting around the region. All of the consents include a set of conditions which impose ‘bottom-line’
requirements that minimise adverse environmental effects from the discharges. Through the monitoring
programme the Council assess compliance with these conditions.
During the monitoring year the Council conducted two deposition gauge surveys to quantify the rate of
dust deposition beyond the site boundaries to determine if the dust caused
stream gaugings.
The monitoring indicated that the operation of the sluicing of the weir has improved, with flows not falling
below 151 L/s. There was one unauthorised incident recording non-compliance in respect to the water take
consent between 30 July and 5 August 2022. Due to a lightning strike which destroyed the scheme’s
electronics, OWSL were required to take water in manual operation mode, which resulted in a breach of
abstraction rate until OWSL could fine-tune the process. The
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