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
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 environmental and administrative performance during the period
performance
Besides discussing the various details of the performance and extent of compliance by WestSide, 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 WestSide’s approach to
demonstrating consent compliance in site operations
consent holder shall maintain a residual flow of not less than 400 litres / second in the
Manganui River immediately downstream of the diversion weir. The residual flow shall be
provided via the two fish passes located either side of the diversion weir.
3. The consent holder shall install and operate a monitoring device capable of measuring, at a
minimum of 15 minute intervals and with +/- 5% measurement accuracy, the diversion and
taking rate of water from the Manganui River
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
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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Appendices
Appendix 1: Charging Policies
Resource Management Act Charging Policy
Schedule of charges pursuant to section 36 of the Resource Management Act 1991
Schedule 1: Scale of charges for staff time
Rate for processing resource consents and
responding to pollution incidents.
Rate for all other Council work.
Professional staff $94/hr $89/hr
Professional/supervisory staff $118/hr $110/hr
Managers $171/hr $160/hr
Support staff $94/hr
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Appendix 6: Charging Policies
Resource Management Act Charging Policy
Schedule of charges pursuant to section 36 of the Resource Management Act 1991
Schedule 1: Scale of charges for staff time
Rate for processing resource consents and
responding to pollution incidents.
Rate for all other Council work.
Professional staff $92/hr $87/hr
Professional/supervisory staff $116/hr $108/hr
Managers $168/hr $157/hr
Support staff $92/hr $87/hr
Directors
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 consent holder
during the period under review, this report also assigns a rating as to the Company’s environmental and
administrative performance.
Environmental performance is concerned with