Policy & Planning agenda February 2021
Policy & Planning Committee agenda February 2021
Policy & Planning Committee agenda February 2021
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 administrative performance during the period under review. The rating categories are high, good, improvement required and poor for both
consent holder during the period under review, this report also assigns a rating as to SDC environmental and administrative performance. 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 consent holder approach to demonstrating consent compliance in site operations and management including the timely provision of information to Council (such as
hydrological monitoring was undertaken by maintaining the McColl’s Bridge flow recorder. The monitoring showed that overall the scheme operated within resource consent requirements for the vast majority of the period being reported. During this period, the Company was fully compliant with lake levels and the rise and recession rate restrictions for the lower Patea River. The Company provided adequate residual flows within the Patea River at all times, with the exception of one incident that was the …
7)). f. Insufficient characterisation of soils, particularly the Anthropic Soils identified in the upper irrigation areas, to determine the suitability of the irrigation rates and proposed irrigation regime. 24 The Officer’s Report proposes Condition 37, which details the requirements for a Site Exit Plan (SEP). Condition 37 proposes a start date for preparation of the SEP (within 3 months of the commencement date of these consents). I recommend the inclusion of a date that the
consents held by Silver Fern Farms Limited (Waitotara) List of tables Table 1 Monthly average and maximum instantaneous groundwater abstraction rates 2016-2017 13 Table 2 Monthly average and maximum instantaneous spring water abstraction rates 2016-2017 14 Table 3 Chemical monitoring results for the irrigation pond 2016-2017 15 Table 4 Groundwater monitoring sites 16 Table 5 Water quality results for monitoring bores October 2016 to September 2017 17 Table 6 Chemical
rates 2017-2018 14 Table 3 Monthly average and maximum instantaneous spring water abstraction rates 2017-2018 15 Table 4 Chemical monitoring results for the irrigation pond 2017-2018 16 Table 5 Groundwater monitoring sites 17 Table 6 Water quality results for monitoring bores October 2017 to September 2018 18 Table 7 Chemical composition of Te Kiri o Rauru spring 23 Table 8 Summary of performance for consent 2260-3.1 26 Table 9 Summary of performance for consent 2261-3.1
physicochemical analysis and three biomonitoring surveys of receiving waters. In addition, monthly emission results and abstraction records were provided to the Council which were reviewed. The monitoring showed that the Stratford Power Station continued to be well managed with negligible environmental effects as a process of the exercise of their consents. Surface water abstraction was compliant with daily rate and volume. Process water discharges were compliant with consent defined …
the Council to continually re-evaluate 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 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
2.1 Site inspections 24 2.2 Non–exercised consents 26 2.3 Groundwater quality results 26 2.4 Residual flow compliance 27 2.5 Compliance with abstraction rate and volumetric limits 29 2.6 Record keeping compliance 30 2.7 Irrigation water usage 2013-2014 31 2.8 Investigations, interventions, and incidents 31 3. Discussion 34 3.1 Discussion of site performance 34 3.2 Evaluation of performance 35 3.3 Recommendations from the 2012-2013 Annual Report 38 3.4 Alterations to monitoring