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 discharge permits
Section 15(1)(a) of the RMA stipulates that no person may discharge any contaminant into water,
establishment of vegetation, were stripped in heavy weather
in September 2015 (Figure 5).
Since this date, numerous attempts had been undertaken to re-establish the vegetation, however wind and
rain erosion had hindered the progress.
Figures 6 and 7 denote the follow up re-sown grass which was undertaken in May 2016. The re-sown grass
was blown out through wind and rain erosion throughout the 2016 winter. In February of 2017, the site was
revisited. The site management had undertaken additional
following REC defined types: WD/SS, WD/VB, WD/VA, CD/SS, CD/VB, CD/VA. The Default class includes all REC types not in
the Productive class.
Based on a monthly monitoring regime. The minimum record length for grading a site based on periphyton (chlorophyll-a)
is 3 years.
* The productive class is defined by River Environment Classification (REC) types, with a combination of dry climate categories
and soft-sedimentary, volcanic acidic and volcanic basic geology. All sites that do not fall in
inspection.
Surface water from recent rain was discharging via three of the open trenches to the coast. Several (known)
boggy areas discharging from the north trench line were contributing to ponding that was visible from the
main highway.
The Hector Place pumping station and the emergency overflow structure were also inspected and found to
be satisfactory.
6 November 2018
An influent flow of approximately 5 L/s was occurring at the time of the inspection, the influent screen was
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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 19 March
2019 at 10.35am.
Members Councillors N W Walker (Committee Chairperson)
M P Joyce
C L Littlewood
D H McIntyre
B K Raine
C S Williamson
D N MacLeod (ex officio)
D L Lean (ex officio)
Representative Councillors G Boyde (Stratford District
Dow Chemical (NZ) Ltd Annual Report 2023-2024
our rivers, flow and water level
changes and riparian habitat damage.”
The breadth of NIWA’s work on freshwater gives an indication
of the complexity and range of human impact.
For example, teams of scientists are working on ways to
treat human wastewater in towns and on farms, installing
fish passages in channelled waterways, reducing the flood of
rain channelled by urban and road stormwater, calculating
downstream impacts of water take, building wetlands and
riparian strips to stop
Nitrogen also enters the Irrigation Area with rain and clover fixation.
4.4 Total volume of irrigation liquid irrigated onto the Irrigation Blocks
The irrigation liquid is pumped from the pond to the irrigator through a buried pipeline. The pumping flow rate
was measured by BTW company in 2015 as 30 m3/hr1.
1 Uruti Composting Facility Management Plan, BTW Company Limited, 2015. (provided as Appendix J of the Application for
Consent Renewal)
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Irrigation Block
Councillor B K Raine
Councillor C S Williamson
Councillor D L Lean (ex officio)
Councillor D N MacLeod (ex officio)
Representative Ms E Bailey (Iwi Representative)
Members Councillor G Boyde (Stratford District Council)
Mr J Hooker (Iwi Representative)
Councillor R Jordan (New Plymouth District Council)
Mr P Muir (Taranaki Federated Farmers)
Councillor P Nixon (South Taranaki District Council)
Mr M Ritai (Iwi Representative)
Apologies
Notification of Late Items
5350-1 To dam and divert water
5351-1
To erect, place and maintain structures in the beds of the
unnamed tributaries
The permits are discussed further in sections 1.3.1 to 1.3.5 below, with copies attached
to this report in Appendix 1.
1.3.1 Water 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