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 the Company, this
report also assigns them a rating for their
interventions and any evidence of a change in attainment of the NPS-FM
swimmability criteria; the very high rate of attainment of swimmability in Taranaki
if assessed against EU criteria instead of NPS-FM criteria; and the absence of any
correlation between nutrient trends and macroinvertebrate community health
trends
4. notes the report’s findings highlight the potential dangers of a ‘one size fits all’
problem analysis and solution imposition to water quality interventions at a
national level
ventilation at reducing odour emission
rates by optimising ventilation, resulting in lower flowrates and a lower efflux of
odour, also commensurate with lower ammonia levels as demonstrated by the
chicken feet pad numbers as achieved at Midhurst and as described by Mr Whiting.
16 Mr Van Kekam6 has quoted his experience with the use air dispersion modelling to
determine the peak off-site 1-hour average 99.5%ile odour concentrations
(expressed as odour units per cubic metre of air
low flow conditions during the
monitoring period (at which time the Manaia system had been upgraded with the addition of
two wetlands, the Kaponga pond subsurface discharge rate was very low and receiving water
dilution very high, and the Patea upgraded ponds system discharged continuously), or on
other occasions when monitoring of impacts was required by specific consent conditions. This
monitoring continued the increased frequency of bacteriological receiving water surveys in the
lower
unless the activity is expressly allowed for by
resource consent or a rule in a regional plan, or it falls within some particular
categories set out in Section 14.
The Council determined that the application to take groundwater fell within Rule 49
of the Regional Freshwater Plan for Taranaki (RFWP) as the rate and daily volume of
the groundwater abstraction might exceeded that of the permitted activity (Rule 48).
Rule 49 provides for groundwater abstraction as a controlled activity, subject
the farm or over sensitised neighbours.
The majority of complaints have occurred whilst the sheds are stocked or
there is spent litter still in the sheds. From a cursory review of the data, it
appears complaints are occurring primarily towards the end of the
batch/bird cycle. This is consistent with published/calculated odour
emission rates from broiler operations which increase as the birds grow in
age/mass.
1.24 In Mr Whiting’s A3 spreadsheet he has compared the
and a administrative performance for
their two facilities located on the Waitara and Pennington Roads, while environmentally,
improvement is required at RNZ’s Mokau Road facility at Uruti, though there administration
was rated as good.
For reference, in the 2015-2016 year, 71% of consent holders in Taranaki monitored through
tailored compliance monitoring programmes achieved a high level of environmental
performance and compliance with their consents, while another 24% demonstrated a good
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considered responsible resource utilisation, to move closer to achieving sustainable development of the
region’s resources.
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
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 concerned with the Company’s
approach to demonstrating consent compliance in site operations and management including the timely
provision of information to Council (such as