A respectful and responsible regard for the Taranaki region’s environment and our management
of its natural resources. Reporting allows evaluation and demonstration of the overall rate of
compliance by sector and by consent holders as a whole, and of trends in the improvement of our
environment.
• Council’s accountability and transparency. Reporting gives validity to investment in monitoring
and to assessments of effective intervention.
3. These compliance monitoring
ammoniacal nitrogen immediately downstream, but the in-stream
contaminant levels complied with the relevant consent limits including for unionised ammonia, biological
oxygen demand and pH, and did not appear to have adverse effects beyond those provided for by the
resource consents. Biological monitoring of the Inaha Stream and tributaries did not indicate any recent
significant impacts from the Company operations. Most sampling locations received the same or improved
health rating for the
compliance to 67.4% by 2030, though the Committee was told the Council’s own scientists consider 50-55% is more realistic, based on measured observations. Taranaki’s current swimmability rate is higher than most other North Island dairying regions and our projected gains from existing programmes and investments are the highest of any region in New Zealand, the Committee was told. But the Council is concerned that the swimmability requirements take no account of when people actually swim or the degree of
install a flowmeter at the point of discharge as per
condition 8 of Consent 1113-5.1. From the Council’s perspective, the current flowmeter configuration
captures data for groundwater abstraction as both flowmeters record pumping of groundwater from the
main excavation pit to the settling ponds. The Company makes no distinction between groundwater take
and discharge or the emergency discharge rate which Consent 1113-5.1 makes concession for in
condition 2.
For reference, in the 2023/24 year
the approach to addressing
rates and any shortfall in Port Taranaki Limited dividends.
McIntyre/Cloke
9. Upcoming Meeting Dates for February 2025
Resolved
That the Taranaki Regional Council:
a) received the memorandum Meeting dates for February 2025
b) noted the upcoming meeting dates.
Littlewood/Cram
10. Public Excluded
In accordance with section 48(1) of the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987,
resolves that the public is
For reference, in the 2023/24 year, consent holders were found to achieve a high level of environmental
performance and compliance for 864 (89%) of a total of 967 consents monitored through the Taranaki
tailored monitoring programmes, while for another 75 (8%) of the consents a good level of environmental
performance and compliance was achieved. A further 26 (3%) of consents monitored required improvement
in their performance, while the remaining two (<1%) achieved a rating of poor.
In
improvement
in their performance, while the remaining two (<1%) achieved a rating of poor.
In terms of overall environmental and compliance performance by the consent holder over the last several
years, this report shows that the consent holder’s performance remains at a good level in the year under
review.
This report includes recommendations for the 2024/25 year, including a recommendation relating to an
optional review of Consents 3696-3 and 6038-2 in June 2025.
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enhancing waterway quality. The programme covers almost 14,500 km of streambank mainly on the ring plain with 12,209 km (84.4%) now fenced, 7,691 km (69.5%) protected with riparian vegetation and includes 99.5% of Taranaki’s dairy farmers. Over 4.3m plants have been supplied over the life of the programme.
The Taranaki Regional Council has a comprehensive programme to monitor all resource consent holders, which consistently reveals a generally high rate of compliance with consent conditions across all
the companies, which include a total of 77 conditions setting out the
requirements that they must satisfy.
The Council's monitoring programme included site inspections, the collection of discharge water samples,
and sampling of the receiving water body for physicochemical analysis. A hydrometric station is maintained
on the stream for the continuous measurement of flow rate and temperature.
Silver Fern Farms Ltd (Silver Fern Farms) bought the Graeme Lowe Protein Ltd (Graeme Lowe
being reported. During this period, the Company was fully compliant with lake levels
and demonstrated good compliance with rise and recession rate restrictions for the lower Pātea River. The
Company provided adequate residual flows within the Pātea River at all times.
The Company successfully operated the trap and transfer system. During the 2023/24 season three ‘target’
fish species were trapped in the Pātea fish trap: longfin eels, shortfin eels and banded kōkopu. Kōaro were
not found