Stocking rates have also increased. The increases in cow numbers, stocking rate and total area in dairy farming has generated greater volumes of farm dairy effluent requiring treatment or disposal. Since the adoption of the Freshwater Plan in 2001, there have been significant changes in community expectations relating to the maintenance and enhancement of 3 Ministry for the Environment, October 1999. 4 Dairy farming has
Council to continually re-evaluate its approach and that of consent 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 Company, this report also assigns them a rating for their
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 consents monitored through the Taranaki
detrimental effects were found at the time of the November survey. At the time of the March survey the results suggested poor preceding water quality that may be indicative of adverse effects associated with the landfill leachate. Air quality monitoring showed that there were no significant adverse effects in relation to suspended particulates, dust deposition rates or odour beyond the site boundary. An enclosed gas flare system was installed for air quality control during the 2017-2018
page 2022/2023 Schedule of Administrative Charges Page 3 Document 3012941 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
Council to continually re-evaluate its approach and that of consent 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 Company, this report also assigns them a rating for their
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 management including the timely provision of information to Council (such as contingency plans and water take data) in accordance
diammonium phosphate, or sulphate of ammonia but does not include a compost, soil treatment or fertiliser that is derived from plant or animal waste or residue and is minimally processed (e.g. by being composted, mixed, dried and pelleted). What is the nitrogen cap? The synthetic nitrogen cap applies to land in pastoral land use. The application rate for a contiguous landholding of synthetic nitrogen must be no more than 190kg/ha/year: to all that land, as
the TRC to take up to 60,480 m3 per day at a maximum rate of 740 l/s of water from Lake Mangamahoe in the Waiwhakaiho Catchment for municipal water supply purposes. An aerial overview of the Mangorei HEPS is provided in Figure 1 below. page Trustpower Limited – Mangorei Hydro-Electric Power Scheme 14 Figure 1: Schematic of the Mangorei Hydro-Electric Power Scheme Mangamahoe Stream page Trustpower Limited – Mangorei Hydro-Electric
discharge points; one freshwater biomonitoring survey; two intertidal surveys; 30 deposition gauging samples; 8 nitrogen oxides (NOx) samples and two periods of fine airborne particles (PM10) monitoring in relation to air emissions, and auditing of monitoring data collected by Fonterra. During the 2014-2015 year, Fonterra demonstrated a good level of environmental performance overall. Of the 21 consents for which compliance and environmental performance could be categorised, 1 (5%) was rated