that these trends are decreasing.
Dialog Fitzroy demonstrated a high level of environmental and administrative performance and compliance
with their resource consents as defined in Appendix II.
During the period under review, Downer EDI Works Ltd was issued with an improvement required rating
for their environmental performance and administrative performance and compliance with their resource
consents, as defined in defined in Appendix II, relation to its Rifle Range Road site.
initiatives implemented to date in the waste plans have had an effect in
reducing the amount of waste disposed per person. However, within each district, an
increase in waste disposed per person occurred over the last two years in South Taranaki
whereas Stratford and New Plymouth disposal rates continued to reduce in 2020/2021.
Figure 1 shows the decrease in total tonnage disposed to Colson Road Landfill in recent
years and since 2019, from Council facilities to Bonny Glen landfill. This decrease
Managing diffuse-source discharges to land and water in Taranaki - Taranaki Regional Council
categorised, 2 were rated ‘poor’, 1 was rated
‘improvement required’, 2 were rated ‘good’ and 14 ‘high’. During the year under review
there were eight incidents associated with the Whareroa site (five incidents linked with milk
spills requiring disposal of product via the marine outfall, two incidents involving
stormwater pond non-compliances and one incident requiring the disposal of milk permeate
to land). One Infringement Notice was issued during the 2012-2013 period relating to non-
compliant
resources.
1.1.4. Evaluation of environmental and administrative performance
Besides discussing the various details of the performance and extent of compliance by the Company, this
report also assigns them a rating for their environmental and administrative performance during the period
under review.
Environmental performance is concerned with actual or likely effects on the receiving environment from the
activities during the monitoring year. Administrative performance is concerned with the
region’s resources.
1.1.4 Evaluation of environmental and administrative performance
Besides discussing the various details of the performance and extent of compliance by the Company, this
report also assigns them a rating for their environmental and administrative performance during the period
under review.
Environmental performance is concerned with actual or likely effects on the receiving environment from the
activities during the monitoring year. Administrative performance is
modelled water quality variables. Model predictions were evaluated
to be very good, good, satisfactory or unsatisfactory, following the criteria proposed by Moriasi
et al., 2007, outlined in Table 4.
Table 4: Performance criteria for statistics used in this study, from (Moriasi et al., 2007).
Performance Rating RSR NSE PBIAS
Very good RSR ≤ 0.50 NSE > 0.75 |PBIAS| <25
Good 0.50 < RSR ≤ 0.60 0.65 < NSE ≤ 0.75 25 ≤ |PBIAS| < 40
Satisfactory 0.60 < RSR ≤ 0.70 0.50 < NSE ≤
irrigation blocks is
restricted to the limits outlined in the Standard Work Place
Instruction SWPI Irrigation from the Catchment Pond
Leachate & Stormwater Management Plan
SWPI Irrigation from the Irrigation Catchment
Pond
The application rate of effluent applied to the irrigation
blocks is restricted to the limits outlined in the Standard
Work Place Instruction SWPI Irrigation from the
Catchment Pond
Leachate & Stormwater Management Plan
SWPI Irrigation from the Irrigation
are
shown on Figure 1, attached as Appendix 1 of these consents.
Insert additional condition: minimum dissolved oxygen in the irrigation pond. Suggest 1
mg/L
Irrigation
14. From a date no later than 60 days after these consents commencing, the consent holder
shall measure and record the rate and volume of discharge from the Irrigation Pond at
intervals not exceeding 1 minute to an accuracy of +5%.
15. The consent holder shall provide the Chief Executive, Taranaki Regional
population growth district. This assessment will be
reviewed in December 2018.
Housing: In general all the indicators in this group have increased with the exception of the
housing affordability measure, which has improved. This leads us to believe that while the cost
of building or buying a first home in New Plymouth has increased, it is less than the rate of
affordability1.
Rent has continued to increase but the rate of change has decreased, therefore renting has
become