The total fine of $337,500 imposed on Silver Fern Farms is believed to be the largest on record and sends a very strong message that the community will not tolerate actions that damage or threaten waterways and the species in them, says the TRC. An ammonia leak at the Company’s Hāwera plant on 19 February 2020 resulted in unauthorised discharges of the toxic chemical to air, and also to the Tawhiti Stream when a water curtain was deployed to protect staff and the surrounding community. The
Chemicals from a category known as PFAS were formerly used as constituents of firefighting foam. PFAS contamination has been found in a number of regions, including Taranaki. Updates | Roles & responsibilities Public Health Unit | Food safety advice Next steps | Contacts & further info UpdatesThe Environmental Protection Authority has released the results of its national investigation into PFOS firefighting foams. Follow the link for details: Results of EPA investigation into PFOS firefighting
they may have the potential or actual environmental consequences that may
represent a breach of a consent or provision in a Regional Plan.
Median Central value when values are arranged in order of magnitude.
MPN Most Probable Number. A method used to estimate the concentration of viable
microorganisms in a sample.
mS/m Millisiemens per metre.
Resource consent Refer Section 87 of the RMA. Resource consents include land use consents (refer
Sections 9 and 13 of the RMA), coastal
A beautiful butterfly has arrived in Taranaki but don’t be fooled by its good looks - it has a very important job to do. Three days before Christmas Taranaki Regional Council environment officers released about 100 Honshu white admiral (Limenitis glorifica) pupae at Oākura and another 100 at Kakaramea. Most had successfully hatched when the officers returned a week later. The butterfly was first imported from Japan in 2010 by Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research as a biocontrol agent. It attacks
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Technical Memorandum | Draft Baseline State for Submerged Plants (Native and Invasive) in Taranaki Lakes
Purpose
The purpose of this memorandum is to provide an assessment of the baseline state of the lake submerged
plant indicator attributes (native and invasive species) as a measure of ecosystem health, as required by the
National Policy Statement for Freshwater Management 2020 (NPS-FM).
wetlands or channelling or piping streams can cause threats to freshwater habitats. Barriers to native fish passage in streams can also reduce diversity in upper catchments.
Pest animals and plants such as possums, stoats, rats and old man’s beard prey on or compete with native species, or degrade their habitats. Pest aquatic plants, fish or algae are also a significant threat to Taranaki’s freshwater biodiversity.
Monitoring biodiversityThe Council tracks indigenous biodiversity on private land in the
Find out which activities have been granted resource consents by the Council. All resource consents issued by the Council are displayed on the Resource Consent Map that's part of our online GIS SmartMaps. Click here to open the interactive resource consents map When the map is open, zoom into your area of interest. Resource consents are indicated by small coloured shapes - to see what each of these means, select 'Legend' in the header bar above the map. Click on your consent of interest, and a
Predator-Free Taranaki, began trapping at home and wanted to get others involved. “We went and had a talk to the partners and practice manager and said ‘hey is it okay if we send an email around and organise to get some traps in for people to give it a go at home?’ At the same time we got traps for the office,” Lisa says. After a morning tea training session a trap was set near the office car park, which borders a small piece of native bush. “The next morning we had a rat. We were so excited,” Rachel
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Executive summary
In 1996 the South Taranaki District Council (STDC) instigated plans to establish a large landfill in the Eltham
area. The (proposed) Central landfill site is situated in the Waingongoro catchment on Rotokare Road,
approximately two kilometres south of Eltham. The purpose of this site was originally to accept waste from
the South Taranaki and Stratford Districts. The plan was changed to allow for a
Taranaki's world-leading Riparian Management Programme was a talking point at the Land Use and Water Quality conference at The Hague, Netherlands, in June 2017. The conference included a presentation on the voluntary, unsubsidised and large-scale riparian scheme. The scientists and policy-makers present were impressed by the scheme's uptake and ecological successes, especially in contrast with Europe’s highly regulated, highly funded and highly politicised approach. The presentation was called