implications of wastage. This was especially evident in the industrial sector, and several
local businesses affiliated to large companies with head offices overseas noted that
environmental management was built into their systems.
There are however, significant areas where awareness is not high or opportunities to recycle
are limited, and also anecdotal evidence of poor practice in some sectors.
This points to the need for educational programmes targeting areas where recycling rates (if
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 Company, this
report also assigns them a rating for their environmental and administrative performance during the period
under review.
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there will need to be a temporary discharge of sewage that has not
been treated using the current treatment process, but will stil l have been milliscreened
and disinfected …” While the plant is being reconfigured …. it is proposed to provide
a temporary dosing facility that releases sodium hypochlorite into the outfall chamber
…. The estimated residence time of 3 hours and 56 minutes (at an average inflow rate
of 3,392m3/day) between dosing at the plant and discharge through the outfall will be
effluent composition, which may not be evident
from the weekly and monthly monitoring.
NPDC monitors both the incoming wastewater and the treated wastewater
discharged from the WWWTP, for both chemical and microbiological parameters,
and analyses for various parameters at both weekly and monthly intervals. The
volume of incoming wastewater is measured and recorded continuously. The
treated effluent discharged has continuous measurement of flow rate and pH.
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Resource Management Act charging policy
Schedule of charges pursuant to section 36 of the Resource Management Act 1991
SCHEDULE 1: SCALE OF CHARGES FOR STAFF TIME
Rate for processing resource consents
and responding to pollution incidents.
Rate for all other Council work.
Professional staff $101/hr $96/hr
Professional/supervisory staff $128/hr $120/hr
Managers $185/hr $173/hr
Support staff
monitoring and the implications for the district.
Summary of findings:
The New Plymouth district is expected to experience high population growth.
Housing: In general, all housing indicators show upward trends. The cost of building or buying a
first home in New Plymouth has increased, with housing affordability also on the rise in the short
term.
Rent has continued to increase but the rate of change remains steady, alongside rental
affordability.
Subdivisions: The increase
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
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
very little
discussion of the effects of total allocation. The allocation in any consents is usually for the
maximum take and the sum of maximum takes for all consents is the total allocation. In practice,
most consent holders only abstract at a maximum rate for a short period of time. For example,
irrigation takes only take water in the summer and only at peak rates when it is necessary. Actual
takes are usually about 50% of the total allocation (MfE 2015). Total allocation, as
the consent holders,
this report also assigns a rating as to each Company’s environmental and administrative performance during
the period under review. The rating categories are high, good, improvement required and poor for both
environmental and administrative performance. The interpretations for these ratings are found in
Appendix II.
For reference, in the 2021-2022 year, consent holders were found to achieve a high level of environmental
performance and compliance for 88% of the