Resource consents
1.3.1 Water abstraction permit
Section 14 of the RMA stipulates that no person may take, use, dam or divert any water, unless the activity is
expressly allowed for by a resource consent or a rule in a regional plan, or it falls within some particular
categories set out in Section 14.
Civil Quarries Ltd holds water permit 10247-1.0 to cover the abstraction of groundwater incidental to
quarry operations and for aggregate washing purposes. This permit was issued by the
Waitaha Catchment Annual Report 2022-2023
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IMMEDIATE RELEASE
19 August 2022, 11:30am
Civil Defence responds to severe weather event
Taranaki’s Civil Defence Emergency Co-ordination Centre (ECC) and the New Plymouth Emergency Operation Centre (EOC) have activated in response to the severe weather event that is hitting the region.
More than a metre of rain has fallen on Mount Taranaki causing significant flows down all rivers resulting in several families voluntarily
year
Standard hydrometric equipment $1,772.00 per year
Tangahoe hydrometric equipment $619.00 per year
Tawhiti hydrometric equipment (lower) $1,573.00 per year
Tawhiti hydrometric equipment (upper) $973.00 per year
Waingongoro hydrometric equipment $755.00 per year
Waitaha hydrometric equipment $7,356.00 per year
Rain Gauge Calibration $306.00 per deployment
Chlorine Meter $18.90 per use
Multi-parameter Field Meter $102.00 per day
EXPLANATION
This scale of charges is used to
levels in the race and lake and how much rain is
falling locally. This has allowed Trustpower to manage race flows to minimise
flooding, and has greatly improved Trustpower’s compliance with residual flow
requirements.
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Figure 1 Main features of the Trustpower Motukawa HEP Scheme including relevant consents
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1.3 Resource consents
1.3.1 Water abstraction permit
Section 14 of the RMA stipulates that no person may take, use, dam
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 may have exceeded that of the permitted activity (Rule
48). Rule 49 provides for groundwater abstraction as a controlled activity, subject to
two conditions:
• The abstraction shall cause not more than a 10% lowering of
the management of any stormwater and leachate.
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2 Results
2.1 Inspections
6 June 2017
A site inspection was carried out during fine weather. The site was relatively dry (110 mm of rain had fallen
over the past month).
A small amount of green waste had been deposited by Fulton Hogan and Ingrams Contracting. No green
waste had been deposited from the STDC Patea green waste holding facility (the Patea transfer station).
Most of the green waste had
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1.4 Resource consents
1.4.1 Water abstraction
Section 14 of the RMA stipulates that no person may take, use, dam or divert any
water, unless the activity is expressly allowed for by a resource consent or a rule in a
regional plan, or it falls within some particular categories set out in Section 14.
Sufficient volumes of water within streams and rivers to protect aquatic habitat is a
primary concern of the Taranaki Regional Council with respect to water abstraction
Waitaha catchment consent monitoring report - Taranaki Regional Council.
SDC Stratford wastewater treatment plant consent monitoring report 2018-2019