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Minutes of the Policy and Planning
Committee Meeting of the Taranaki
Regional Council, held in the Taranaki
Regional Council Chambers, 47 Cloten
Road, Stratford, on Tuesday 17 October
2017 at 10.40am.
Members Councillors N W Walker (Committee Chairperson)
M P Joyce
C L Littlewood
D H McIntyre
B K Raine
D L Lean (ex officio)
Representative Ms E Bailey (Iwi Representative)
Members Councillor G Boyde (Stratford
stream gaugings.
The monitoring indicated that the operation of the sluicing of the weir has improved, with flows not falling
below 151 L/s. There was one unauthorised incident recording non-compliance in respect to the water take
consent between 30 July and 5 August 2022. Due to a lightning strike which destroyed the scheme’s
electronics, OWSL were required to take water in manual operation mode, which resulted in a breach of
abstraction rate until OWSL could fine-tune the process. The
the signed resource consent
please contact the TRC Consents department)
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Water abstraction permits
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. Permits authorising the abstraction of water are issued by the Council
under Section 87(d) of the RMA.
Water
defences in February
as the region was hit by heavy rain. The
deluge saw 138mm of rain recorded at
Cape Egmont in just four hours.
We ran a marine oil spill response exercise
in New Plymouth’s harbour alongside Port
Taranaki, New Plymouth Underwater Ltd
and iwi. We do these to ensure that if there
was a real oil spill, everyone would be
familiar with the equipment and the correct
procedures. An ecologist was on hand to
check on the wellbeing of penguins and
other
2018-2019
financial year more than four times that of 2014-2015 (Table 1). Log exports decreased slightly in 2019-
2020; largely due to depressed log prices and the COVID-19 Level-4 business restrictions (Port Taranaki,
2020).
Historically, the move to bulk cargo resulted in an increase in material deposited on the ground in the log
and coal storage areas. When it rained this material would wash into the stormwater system, resulting in
high suspended solids. In order to minimise deleterious …
H McIntyre
B K Raine
N W Walker
C S Williamson
Apologies
Notification of Late Items
Item Page Subject
Item 1 3 Confirmation of Minutes
Item 2 8 Consents and Regulatory Committee Minutes
Item 3 14 Policy and Planning Committee Minutes
Item 4 22 Regional Transport Committee Minutes
Item 5 27 Executive Audit and Risk Committee Minutes
Item 6 31 Joint Committee Minutes
Item 7 41 2019 Meeting Schedule and February 2019 Meeting Dates
Item 8 45 Public
Change team are creating an
action plan to target reduction of key waste streams, system improvements,
and education.
Figure 1 Sorted waste from the NPDC Civic Centre Waste Audit
NPDC Zero Waste Fund – latest funding round
9. NPDC runs a Zero Waste Fund for community initiatives that will minimise
waste. The current round is open for applications from 1 October to 31 October
2024. Priority for this funding round will be given to those projects that fall in
the upper two levels of