Zealand’s national rail network to provide modern transit systems in our largest
cities, and to enable increasing volumes of freight to be moved off the roads and onto rail. Over
the next decade investment is needed to achieve a reliable and resilient national rail network. This
requires investment in both the national rail freight network and our metropolitan rail networks.
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4. Strategic case
significantly to the following
RLTP policies:
S3: Support the aims of Roadsafe Taranaki.
S4: Support the aims of Safer Journeys
G2: Focus on effective and efficient strategic road and rail
corridors, particularly between inter-regional ports.
A3: Ensure a range of travel options are available to the region’s
residents.
Impacts on RLTP:
The proposal does not negatively affect any other projects in the
RLTP, nor affect the overall integrity/affordability of the Plan. This
(Beach Energy) operates the Kupe Omata Tank Farm
located on Centennial Drive, New Plymouth. The Tank Farm is a hydrocarbon storage facility covering
approximately 1.5 hectares of land adjacent to the New Zealand Oil Services Limited storage facility
(Figure 2).
Figure 2 Aerial photography of Beach Energy and NZOSL sites
The southern part of the site includes two hydrocarbon storage tanks. The northern part of the site, along
the road frontage, includes a tanker unloading building,
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Todd Generation Taranaki Ltd (the Company) operates the McKee Power Plant on Otaraoa Road near
Tikorangi, bridging the Waitara and Onaero
(Fonterra) operates a dairy processing complex located on Whareroa Road
at Hawera, between the Tangahoe catchment and another small unnamed catchment. Fonterra holds a total
of 18 resource consents related to activities undertaken at the Whareroa site to allow for the abstraction of
water from the Tawhiti Stream and Tangahoe River; the discharge of river silt and sand back to those two
streams; the discharge of stormwater to unnamed tributaries of the Tawhiti Stream, the Tangahoe River and
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businesses.
Ports can also play an important role in place-shaping. Particularly because many
cities/settlements have developed around a port, which means that many ports are
situated in the heart of built up urban areas , often with excellent road and rail
links.
3.1 Regional role
Well-functioning ports are an enabling asset within a regional context. Ports can support business productivity and
activity offering the benefit of economies of scale. They act as a hub of
businesses.
Ports can also play an important role in place-shaping. Particularly because many
cities/settlements have developed around a port, which means that many ports are
situated in the heart of built up urban areas , often with excellent road and rail
links.
3.1 Regional role
Well-functioning ports are an enabling asset within a regional context. Ports can support business productivity and
activity offering the benefit of economies of scale. They act as a hub of
on Victoria Road at
Stratford, in the Patea catchment. The landfill was closed to the public on 11 March 2002 and
to commercial disposers on 23 March 2002. The site has more recently been used to dewater
and dispose of oxidation pond sludge from the adjacent municipal waste water treatment
plant but this activity ceased in early 2006, and the landfill was recapped and reinstated. The
only external material now accepted at the landfill is soil from a local sawmill site
remediation project.
closed
landfills that are consented to reopen in emergency situations and Colson Road
landfill is still consented to take refuse. It was noted that Taranaki Civil Defence
Emergency Management also have a contingency plan in place for Civil Defence
emergency refuse.
2.3 Household recycling bin collection has started up again however, there is a high level
of contamination. This is currently not being policed but monitoring and stickering
will be starting up again in the next two weeks.
Farms Ltd (Silver Fern
Farms). Silver Fern Farms operates a meat processing plant situated on Wai-inu Beach Road at Waitotara, in
the Waitotara catchment. The monitoring period coincides with the plant’s processing season.
The report includes the results and findings of the monitoring programme implemented by the Council in
respect of the consents held by Silver Fern Farms that relate to abstraction of water, discharge of wastes by
spray irrigation to land, discharge of stormwater and