longer
periods rather than at high rates for short periods.
The filter is backwashed once per week to a series of two soak holes. The capacity of
the soak holes is more than adequate to deal with the volumes of backwash which
they receive.
1.3. Resource consents
SDC holds various resource consents for the water supply plants and structures that
it operates, including water abstraction permits, discharge permits and land use
consents. These consents are listed in Table 1 and
Management Plan
SPR Special Purpose Road
STDC South Taranaki District Council
STE Stock Truck Effluent
TEFAR Targeted Enhanced Financial Assistance Rate
TIO Transport Investment Online
TP Transport Programme
TRC Taranaki Regional Council
TSIG Transport Special Interest Group
VKT Vehicle Kilometres Travelled
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good level of administrative performance.
STDC has advised council that the breaches in discharge rates at Opunake should be resolved by February
2020. The non-compliant breaches became apparent when council received the discharge data at the end of
the monitoring year.
For reference, in the 2018-2019 year, consent holders were found to achieve a high level of environmental
performance and compliance for 83% of the consents monitored through the Taranaki tailored monitoring
programmes,
its 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 holders,
this report also assigns a rating as to each company’s environmental and
Predator-Free project, the ambitious region-
wide campaign launched in May 2018.
Monitoring data shows this intensive predator control may already be making a difference – rats and possums in
urban New Plymouth are decreasing, while the trapping network in rural and urban areas is expanding rapidly.
Monitoring, using rat footprint tracking and a possum bite-mark index, show catch rates have dropped; rats went
from 33 per cent to 19 percent over the year, while the urban New Plymouth
“TRC SEM” samples1 analysed exceeded the 4g/m2/30
days deposition rate guideline, with only 26% of all the gauges collected in the airshed as a
whole exceeding this guideline. There were two gauging locations, one in the vicinity of each
of Ravensdown Fertiliser Co-operative Limited and Katere Surface Coatings Limited, where
the guideline was exceeded at the time of both surveys. The highest result obtained during the
year under review was one of the Downer EDI Works Limited gauges, which was
Risk Cause and Effect Mitigation Strategy
Risk Rating
(unmitigated)
Comments
(including current actions)
Challenges in
conducting effective
engagement with
tangata whenua as
required under the
NPS-FM.
Challenges in tangata whenua
resourcing and the timelines
that the TRC is required to
meet may place pressure on
the ability of staff to engage
fully with iwi and hapū.
Additionally, this pressure can
lead to a misalignment
consents as defined in Section 1.1.4. The data and reporting requirements of the consent 0231-4
were not met within the set timeframe and it is further noted that given the current position of the flow
meter, the rate of abstraction is not accurately being measured due to the reservoir between the flow meter
and point of abstraction. Whilst Council is satisfied that meter is recording volumes of water consumed by
the scheme, it is not able to measure the rate at which water is being abstracted from
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 holders,
this report also assigns a rating as to each Company’s 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 …
NZ’s medium projection for births and deaths, and the high projection rate for net migration.
This reflects improving economic circumstances in the region, resulting in job creation and inward
migration patterns. Birth and death rates are likely to be substantially accurate given that they reflect
existing trends and there is little likelihood of step-changes in the rates. This population projection
covers the entire district, including rural areas.