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 environmental and administrative performance during
the period under review. The rating categories are high, good, improvement required and poor for both
environmental
Rate
(FDR) analysis.
The results for the SEM nuisance periphyton programme during the 2016-2017 monitoring year showed
that on one occasion at one site there was a breach of the thick mat guideline and on five occasions across
four separate sites there was a breach of the long filaments guideline, out of a total of 64 site surveys. Ten
sites could not be surveyed in spring 2016 due to high water levels. For the 2017-2018 monitoring year
there were two occasions where there
discussing the various details of the performance and extent of compliance by SDC during the
period under review, 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 concerned with the Company’s
approach to demonstrating consent compliance in site
take up to 60,480
cubic metres per day at a maximum rate of 740 litres/ second of
water from Lake Mangamahoe in the Waiwhakaiho Catchment for
municipal water supply purposes 27
Table 7 Summary of performance for Consent 5699-1 To erect, place and
maintain a pipebridge over the Mangorei Stream in the
Waiwhakaiho catchment 27
Table 8 Summary of performance for Consent 5700-1 To disturb the bed of
the Mangorei Stream by trenching to erect, place and maintain a
pipeline under the
a result of
the decisions made, the updated 2017/2018 Annual Plan will then be adopted. It is proposed
to set the rates for 2017/2018 at the 27 June 2017 Ordinary Meeting.
Decision-making considerations
Part 6 (Planning, decision-making and accountability) of the Local Government Act 2002 has
been considered and documented in the preparation of this agenda item. The
recommendations made in this item comply with the decision-making obligations of the Act.
Financial
structurally new or different in the
schedule of administrative charges from that adopted in the 2021/2031 Long-Term Plan.
Consent holders, and others that are impacted by these charges, will have a long-term
familiarity with the approach to RMA administrative charges.
9. The charge-out rates have been updated, the fixed minimum charges have been
updated, the schedules of charges have been updated, and the individual monitoring
programme charges have been reviewed and updated.
10. As there is
translated to NOF bands.
Trend analysis was performed by applying a LOWESS fit (tension 0.4) to a time scatterplot
of the percentage cover of thick mats, and long filaments of periphyton for all sites and by
testing the significance of any trend using the Mann-Kendall test at the 5% level, followed by
Benjamini-Hochberg False Discovery Rate (FDR) analysis.
The results for the SEM nuisance periphyton programme during the 2014/2015 monitoring
year showed that five sites breached nuisance
consent 43
4. Recommendations 44
Glossary of common terms and abbreviations 45
Bibliography and references 47
Appendix I Resource consents held by Trustpower Ltd in relation to the Patea HEPS 1
Appendix II Lake Rotorangi Hazard Maps 1
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List of tables
Table 1 Summary of breaches of flow rise and recession rates in the 2011-2014
period 17
Table 2 Summary of lake levels in relation to consent conditions 20
Table 3 Reports submitted to
wastewater records
indicated that discharges to the Kahouri Stream did not meet the 1:100 dilution factor. For the latter two
incidents the Company has been sent a 14 day letter requesting an explanation for the breaches, and further
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enforcement action may follow. As a result of the issues, the Company’s environmental performance rating
for the year under review has been downgraded.
During the year, the Company demonstrated a level of environmental and administrative
and cost recovery 39
11 Training 41
12 Quality assurance and control 42
13 Review and reporting 43
14 References 44
List of photographs
Photo 1 Farm dairy and cows 2
Photo 2 Condition based monitoring with portable device 27
Photo 3 Visual inspection to check condition of the irrigator and application rate 28
Photo 4 Collecting samples, recording temperature and entering sample information into the
laboratory database remotely 29
Photo 5 Officer completing inspection