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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 13 March
2018 at 10.30am.
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)
Representative Ms E Bailey (Iwi Representative)
Members Councillor G Boyde
of beach (at low tide only),
any waters emerging from the cliff would be swiftly mixed and dispersed. Any effects on groundwater
quality or coastal water quality would be negligible. In general the creation of stable interlocked layers of
green waste ensures that it does not fall off or get blown off the cliffs and down onto the coastal marine
area or into the sea.
The effect of the sand movement from the lack of dune systems has seen the degradation in the land
available for farming on
forecast the contamination risk of bathing waters, based on
preceding rainfall volumes and/or river flows. As the Council
collects more data, we will be able to explore opportunities to
develop a rainfall risk model to give real time predictions of
water contamination risk.
In the meantime, the public is advised to check the latest
testing results on the LAWA or Council websites, consider
whether there’s been heavy rain during the last three days,
and avoid murky
Councillor B K Raine
Councillor C S Williamson
Councillor D L Lean (ex officio)
Councillor D N MacLeod (ex officio)
Representatives Councillor R Jordan (New Plymouth District Council)
Councillor G Boyde (Stratford District Council)
Councillor P Nixon (South Taranaki District Council)
Apologies
Notification of Late Items
Item Page Subjet
Item 1 3 Confirmation of Minutes - 24 November 2017
Item 2 9 Introducing dung beetles to Taranaki dairy farms
Item 3 13 Regional
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.
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 exceed that of the permitted activity (Rule 48).
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 exceed that of the permitted activity (Rule 48).
Rule 49 provides for groundwater abstraction as a controlled activity, subject to two
conditions:
• The abstraction
1.3.2 Water abstraction permit (groundwater)
Section 14 of the Act stipulates that no person may take, use, dam or divert any
water, 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
Comparison to WHO guidelines 5
3.3 Temporal Patterns 7
4 Trend Analysis 8
5 Discussion 10
6 Future Monitoring at Central School 11
7 Recommendations 12
Bibliography and references 13
List of tables
Table 1 WHO guidelines for PM2.5 monitoring 1
Table 2 PM2.5 air quality summary statistics, based on daily means 5
Table 3 Number of days falling into environmental performance indicator category each year of
monitoring 6
List of figures
Figure 1 Overview of the
climate, central
government reforms and our evolving relationship
with tangata whenua.
While inflation has been trending down and is now
falling close to the Reserve Bank of New Zealand’s
target consumer inflation rate of between 1 and 3
per cent, the economy has remained sluggish with
gross domestic product rising by just 0.2% in the
March 2024 quarter. That followed a 0.1% fall in the
previous quarter.
We’ve had to factor these economic headwinds as
we