Over the last few months, NPDC along with environmental action and sustainability focused groups,
Friends of Pukakura Park and iwi have been working collaboratively to bring about a hub in the North.
The hub gives individuals and organisations a place to work, hold meetings and educational
workshops; allowing the public to see demonstrations in practice.
Your Enviroschools team is excited to be a
part of this. The Hub will be opening soon
and more information will come when we
are
Agenda for Ordinary Council meeting May 2017.
at 14 November 2016.
Joyce/Williamson
7. Freshwater Monitoring by Iwi
7.1 Ms K Blakemore, Technical Officer, spoke to the memorandum informing the
Committee of freshwater monitoring by Ngaa Rauru Kiitahi iwi and hapu of streams
and rivers within their rohe that is occurring within Taranaki with the involvement of
the Council.
Recommended
That the Taranaki Regional Council:
1. receives this report Freshwater monitoring by Iwi
Policy and Planning Committee
a memorandum to the Court requesting that the Hearing Committee’s
decision stands.
On 1 August 2007, STDC wrote to iwi and the Council committing to: work on
decreasing storm water ingress to the Hawera sewerage system; testing the
permeability of the detention storage pond; not exceed the 12,000 m3/day volume of
the consent; and undertaking the necessary work under the consent (condition 10) to
review in 2009 the best practicable option for treatment and disposal of wastewater,
access purposes
Rohe:
Te Atiawa (Statutory Acknowledgement)
Engagement or consultation:
Te Kotahitanga o Te Atiawa Trust Comment on application received
Inconsistent with Iwi Environment
Management Plan
Application lacks sufficient detail
Consents and Regulatory Committee - Resource Consents Issued Under Delegated Authority and Applications in Progress
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Non-notified authorisations issued by the Taranaki
clearly highlights
there was an urgency to activate the process, then quickly
recommended by Colin McLellan on the 7/1/19. Under
Question 3 of the process “Statutory Acknowledgements
“The Iwi impacted on is not acknowledged, Ngaati Mutunga,
this is in breach of Treaty Principles of “Partnership“,
”Protection of Taaonga” and being accorded the appropriate
rights to the Mana Whenua of this area. No level of
contamination is and ever will be acceptable into these
waterways. These awa present
are important
to Iwi and were highly regarded as
mahinga kai (McDowall, 2011). Only one
species has been confirmed as being
present in Taranaki, being Echyridella
menziesii. This species is classified as
being ‘in decline’, which places them in
the ‘at risk’ category (Grainger et al,
2013).
Another species (Echyridella aucklandica)
has been recorded in a number of
locations in the North Island, including Figure 5: Lake Rotorangi
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Zealand study to examine the combined
ecological effects of minimum flows and allocation limits both on benthic invertebrates and fish populations
(Jowett, 2019). For context, Jowett also assessed the impacts of a range of potential combinations of minimum
flow and allocation limits on water users, based on the number of days restrictions to takes would occur
under various scenarios.
The report and its finding were presented to a range of stakeholders, iwi and the regional Wai Māori Working
additional accelerated funding for a bypass of Mount
Messenger on State Highway 3 (SH3). The new project needs to be included within the
Taranaki RLTPlan in order to be progressed. The Transport Agency has therefore
lodged a request to vary the current RLTPlan.
4.3 The Committee noted and encouraged the NZ Transport Agency to engage early with
affected communities, including Iwi (Ngāti Tama) and landowners re the new Mount
Messenger Bypass roading project to avoid any
� Information Sheet-Wetlands
� The Importance of Riparian Management
Related Links –Taranaki
� Taranaki Regional Xplorer
� Taranaki Iwi Contacts
� East Taranaki Environmental Trust
� Egmont National Park (Department of Conservation)
� Fish and Game-Taranaki Region
� New Plymouth District Council - Sustainable District
� Rotokare Scenic Reserve Trust
� Taranaki Kiwi Trust
� Taranaki tree Trust
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