lifestyles
Regional Council
Taranaki
Taking Taranaki
Regional Council
Taranaki
Yarrow Stadium
reduction in targeted Yarrow Stadium
rate following $20m COVID recovery
infrastructure investment by the Govt.
Public bus services and transport
26,775
55,220
Citylink passenger
trips up 7.6%
subsidised trips up by 1924
Total Mobility cardholders
passenger trips on the Connector
-New Plymouth service up 6.8%Hāwera
548,870
Connecting with
the community
engagements
revalued, the total impairment is recognised
in the surplus or deficit.
Depreciation and amortisation expense
Depreciation is provided on a straight-line basis, at rates that will write-off the cost or valuation of
assets, to their estimated residual values, over their useful lives. The rates of depreciation are as
follows:
Buildings 1.25% to 6.67% per annum
Furniture, fittings and equipment 6.67% to 25.00% per annum
Office Equipment 15.00% to 30.00% per annum
The residual
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. Administrative performance is …
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
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
circulation conditions (eg asthma, emphysema, heart attack, strokes); over the longer term,
increased concentrations correlate with increased cancer rates and premature death rates as well as chronic
respiratory illnesses.
While the current NES-AQ, set by MfE in 2004, is for fine particulate matter of 10 µm diameter (PM10 ), it is
anticipated that the next revision of the NES-AQ will focus on PM2.5, given its higher potential for adverse
health effects. As a result, in this report exposure to
region’s larger estuaries north
and south of the ring plain, as well as a number of smaller
stream mouths where tidal intrusion was marginal but
may occasionally occur. Three main outputs were provided
for each estuary: a habitat map, a vulnerability rating and
recommendations for future monitoring.
Overall vulnerability to the effects of sedimentation and
eutrophication was determined to be ‘high’ in five estuaries,
‘moderate to high’ in another five, ‘moderate’ in
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,
the Meeting of Waters. The results suggest an impact from the increased rate of
take allowed by the variation of consent 2053 since 2016.
The Company has struggled to provide regular and timely updates on progress made towards monitoring
sedimentation within the lake in this monitoring period. Due to the late submission of a lake sedimentation
report during the writing of this report, a compliance assessment on the work undertaken by the Company
to date has not yet been made in this