any formal protection status. Each factor is each given a ‘condition’ score. The scores are then used to rate the overall state of the remnant, from ‘Excellent’ to ‘Poor’. Of the 64 forest remnants assessed between 2008 and 2014, more than half were found to be in ‘Good’ or ‘Very good’ condition. A very small percentage of forest remnants were considered to be in ‘Poor’ condition. The Rowan Road forest remnant KNE (above) has a biodiversity plan. annotation
Figure 1, attached as Appendix 1 of this consent. Irrigation 14 The Consent Holder must keep records of the volume and location of all wastewater irrigated to land under this consent. a) From a date no later than two months after this consents commencing, the consent holder must measure and record the rate and volume of discharge from the Irrigation Pond at intervals not exceeding 1 minute to an accuracy of +5%; b) The consent holder must provide the Chief Executive, Taranaki
Agenda for Taranaki Regional Transport Committee 2 December 2015
16.5% of the region’s population is Maori with 24.3% of the population of the South Taranaki district being Maori. 2013 Census figures show that the unemployment rate across the region is 5.6% with only small variations from one district to another. The rate of unemployment is below that for New Zealand which sits at 7.1%. Rates of unemployment among Maori are higher. Households without access to a motor vehicle is highest in New Plymouth district (7.2% of households) and lowest in
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 Company’s approach to demonstrating consent compliance in site operations and
and New Zealand Oil Services Ltd. Water samples were collected for physicochemical analysis on selected inspections. Consent data was also supplied to the Council for review. During the year, Port Taranaki Ltd, Downer New Zealand Ltd, and Technix Taranaki Terminal Ltd obtained a good rating for environmental and high rating for administrative performance and compliance with the resource consents. There was one non-compliant discharge recorded during the year, however, the cause for the
tau value was used to assess whether the trend was positive or negative and the significance of the trend was determined using the p value (p < 0.05 = significant). When multiple correlations are undertaken, there is a chance that some will be found to be significant purely by chance. In order to deal with this potential problem, the Benjamini-Hochberg False Discovery Rate (FDR) method was applied to the results of the Mann-Kendall test. Further justification for this statistical approach
Discovery Rate (FDR) method was applied to the results of the Man-Kendall test. Further justification for this statistical approach can be found in Stark and Fowles (2006). page 8 Figure 1 SEM beach bathing bacteriological survey sites page 9 4. Results From 15 November 2011 to 10 April 2012 a total of 13 samples were collected at each site for the purpose of state of the environment monitoring (SEM). Whenever possible, no SEM sampling was
resource management, and, ultimately, through the refinement of methods, and responsible resource utilisation, to move closer to achieving sustainable development of the region’s resources. 1.1.4 Evaluation of environmental performance Besides discussing the various details of the performance and extent of compliance by the consent holder/s during the period under review, this report also assigns a rating as to each Company’s environmental and administrative performance. Environmental
holders to resource management and, ultimately, through the refinement of methods and considered responsible resource utilisation, to move closer to 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 consent holder/s during the period under review, this report also assigns a rating as to each Company’s environmental and