achieving sustainable development of 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 …
application and estimated loading rates 34
2.1.6 Groundwater monitoring 36
2.1.6.1 Groundwater discussion 49
2.1.7 Soil monitoring 49
2.1.8 Biomonitoring of the Haehanga Stream 72
2.2 Air 78
2.3 Incidents, investigations, and interventions 80
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3 Discussion 85
3.1 Discussion of site performance 85
3.2 Environmental effects of exercise of consents 89
3.3 Evaluation of performance 98
3.4 Recommendations from the 2019-2020 Annual Report 122
3.5
sites 46
Table 19 Summary of E.coli concentrations by well construction type 47
List of figures
Figure 1 Distribution of the main geological units of the Taranaki region (Brown 2013) 4
Figure 2 Monitoring site locations 6
Figure 3 Total cows numbers and stocking rates in Taranaki (1998 to 2016) 17
Figure 4 Average dairy cow production in Taranaki and nationally (1998 to 2016) 17
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Figure 5 Schematic representation of the length of
sites 46
Table 19 Summary of E.coli concentrations by well construction type 47
List of figures
Figure 1 Distribution of the main geological units of the Taranaki region (Brown 2013) 4
Figure 2 Monitoring site locations 6
Figure 3 Total cows numbers and stocking rates in Taranaki (1998 to 2016) 17
Figure 4 Average dairy cow production in Taranaki and nationally (1998 to 2016) 17
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Figure 5 Schematic representation of the length of
indicator bacteria analysis. Following
the diversion of municipal wastewater from Waitara to New Plymouth, green-lipped mussels
from three reef sites were analysed for norovirus.
The monitoring showed that activities at the WWWTP complied with consent limits on daily
discharge rate and various parameters in the discharge.
Marine ecology survey results showed no detectable impact of the Waitara Marine Outfall
discharge on the local intertidal community over the last twenty years in terms of
assigns an overall rating
as to the Company’s environmental and administrative performance.
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 Company’s approach to
demonstrating consent compliance in site operations and management including the
timely provision of information to Council (such as contingency plans and water take
data) in accordance
Road. Hawera
9th May 10:00 -1:30pm
Focus: Lowering environmental impacts-
reducing stocking rates and imported feed to
reduce emissions –lowering methane output
and Nitrogen surplus. Also examining use of
drought resistant grasses.
NCEA Links: L1 90160, L2 91298, L3 91532
Registrations due by Friday 28th April
Waimate West Farm
Dairy nos. 41952, 41954, Normanby Road,
Hawera
30th May, 10:00-1:30pm
Focus: Regenerative farming practices,
administrative performance
Besides discussing the various details of the performance and extent of compliance by
the consent holder during the period under review, this report also assigns a rating as
to the Company’s environmental and administrative performance.
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 Company’s approach to demonstrating
should these sites be converted to pasture.
Indigenous forest
As previously noted, we have discontinued the practice of comparing indigenous sites to
target values as they can be highly variable in soil quality indicators and there is generally
little that can be done to manage indicators that are outside target values. Nevertheless,
we still encourage sampling of indigenous sites as they form a baseline for rate of change
in other land uses.
It is interesting to note that
Table 2 Location of sample points for Manutahi-D wellsite 14
Table 3 Details of groundwater sampling sites 15
Table 4 Results of injectate sampling undertaken by the Council (2014-2015) 16
Table 5 Summary of volumes of waste discharged by DWI (2014-2015) 17
Table 6 Summary of the rate and pressure of the waste discharged by DWI (2014-
2015) 17
Table 7 Range of contaminants in injectate sampled in 2014-2015 19
Table 8 Results of groundwater sampling undertaken by the Council (2014-2015) 22