surplus of $761,000 (total
comprehensive income). Expenditure was $777,000 below
budget while revenue was $238,000 above budget. This was
a good result, noting that general rates had been raised by
around 1.5% for each of the previous two years, which is
well below inflation levels. The Council’s balance sheet
remains very strong with no public debt.
We gratefully acknowledge the efforts and achievements of
Council staff during the year, ably governed by a team of
Councillors providing
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by the total irrigation area. The sampling data was grouped into seasons ie Summer, Autumn, Winter and Spring
and the seasonal results were averaged to calculate a seasonal Nitrogen concentration average.
Summer Autumn Winter Spring
Nitrogen concentration
g/m3
341.8 305.8 159.8 126.0
Vol
pumped N concentration Total N Application rate
m3 g/m3 Kg
-57,410 243,780 301,190 -57,410 4,729,359
Rent revenue 100,549 93,749 6,800 100,549 93,749 6,800 1,125,000
Dividends 0 0 0 0 0 0 8,000,000
Revenue from non-exchange transactions
General rates revenue 0 0 0 0 0 0 10,937,289
Targeted rates revenue 0 0 0 0 0 0 4,366,647
Direct charges revenue 94,259 182,076 -87,817 94,259 182,076 -87,817 12,820,150
Government grants 521,712 174,060 347,652 521,712 174,060 347,652 5,229,709
Vested assets 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
regional plan requirements. The non-
compliance rate for failure to meet resource consent
conditions was 6.6% for dairy farms, a small change from the
previous year. The Council will continue to monitor farm
dairy effluent systems closely to ensure compliance with the
Council’s requirements.
Complementing the agricultural monitoring programme, the
Council inspected 221 minor industrial operations in
2013/2014. Minor industries include agricultural services,
light engineering, panel beaters,
production bore, abstraction pipework monitoring
equipment and associated infrastructure; and
obtaining manual measurements of groundwater levels in the production and
observation bores and retrieving electronic data.
To monitor the exercising of consent 7470-1.1 abstraction volume and rate data are recorded
electronically at the site by a data logging system and transferred to the Council via telemetry,
so the data can be viewed in real time. Three groundwater monitoring bores were also
monitor the exercising of consent 7470-1.1 abstraction volume and rate data is recorded
electronically at the site by a datalogging system and is transferred to the Council via
telemetry, so the data can be viewed in real time. Three groundwater monitoring bores were
also installed within the vicinity of the production bore to monitor the effects of the abstraction
on local groundwater levels. Groundwater levels within two of the monitoring bores
(GND2102 and GND2103) are monitored electronically
remain high
for the Mt Messenger and Awakino projects.
STRONG FINANCIAL POSITION
The Council finished the 2015/2016 year with a surplus
of $963,000 (total comprehensive income). Expenditure
was $373,000 over budget, in large part due to the
Council providing unbudgeted emergency funding to
assist those in need following the severe winter storm
damage. Overall it was a good result, noting that
general rates increases have been at or below the rate
of inflation
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1 Introduction
Currently, the minor taking and use of surface and groundwater in the Taranaki region is
a Permitted Activity within the Taranaki Regional Council’s Regional Freshwater Plan
[“Plan”], subject to various conditions relating in the main to abstraction flow rates and
daily volumes (refer Appendix One).
utilisation of additional pasture production is likely include the following:
Increase in stocking rate to utilise additional production during the summer and
autumn for increased milk solids production per hectare. Typically this would mean
an increase in stocking rate by approximately 0.4 to 0.6 cows per hectare
Reduction in supplementary feeding, such as silage and maize silage during the late
summer and autumn
Fewer cows are likely to dry off early due to higher pasture production in