experienced the intensification seen in some other regions. For
example, the total number of milking dairy cattle in 1998/1999 was 481,034 (nearly 15% of the
nation’s milking herd) and by 2013/2014 it was still only 493,361 (10% of the national herd). Likewise,
stocking rates have hardly changed, from an average of 2.8 cows per hectare in 1998/1999 to 2.85
cows per hectare in 2013/2014. These are lower stocking rates than the national average. The
pressures on land use are not
programme
roll-out as a result from Covid-19 with the changes to people handling cash.
2.4 There were some positives that have come out of Covid-19 one of those being that staff
can be more flexible about where they are working from. Those who are working out in
the field can start and finish their day from home. This has also given the Council the
opportunity to look at the accommodation review and revisit the needs.
2.5 A discussion was held around rates relief/remission and although New …
irrigation areas and groundwater monitoring points 5
Figure 3 Location of SFF Waitotara meat processing plant showing
irrigation areas and groundwater monitoring points 6
Figure 4 Average daily abstraction rate October 2012 - September
2014 13
Figure 5 Conductivity, ammonia and nitrate at groundwater
monitoring points, 1994-2014 18
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1. Introduction
1.1 Compliance monitoring programme reports and the Resource
Management Act 1991
1.1.1
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3.4 Legal description of property at site of activity (refer to land title or rates notice)
Lot1 SS6265 Sib Sec 47 Borough of Opunake Blk IX Opunake SD
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3.5 Assessment/Valuation number of property (refer to land title or rates notice)
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monitoring, enables 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 and administrative performance
Besides discussing the various details of the performance and extent of compliance by Methanex, this report
also assigns them a rating
including loss of gate control, the scheme operated with few major issues. In comparison with
previous monitoring years, compliance with residual flow requirements was high, continuing on from the
significant improvement noted in the 2014-2015 monitoring period. Management of the level of Lake
Opunake improved from the previous period, as maintenance works and changes to operations led to a
reduction in the rate of water lost during station shutdowns. Unfortunately, the maintenance works required
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 STDC’s approach to
demonstrating consent compliance in site operations and management including the timely provision of
information to Council (such as contingency plans and water take data) in
and
liner installation construction details for new ponds. For existing ponds, we provide
estimated leak rates and comments on leak detection monitoring and maintenance (see
Section 4).
• Environmental considerations for siting new ponds (see Section 5).
1.2 Scope of work
We have carried out the following:
• Desk top review of available geological information including:
- Townsend et al., 2008. Geology of Taranaki Area. Institute of Geological and Nuclear
regularly. A backup system allowed the collection of a limited range of critical data, which allowed
Trustpower to continue operating the scheme in line with other conditions (e.g. residual flows, race water
levels etc.). There was only one occasion when required flow rates were not complied with. This related to a
severe weather event resulting in a high race water level but was of short duration (no more than 2.5 hours).
Compliance with flushing flow requirements was good with regards to the