undertaking successful
enforcement action.
Commentary/Highlights
The Council implemented 209 specific individual compliance programmes in 2015/2016 for major consent holders
(including catchment programmes that cover multiple consent holders within a single programme), together with
additional programmes for hydrocarbon exploration and development activities as they arose. Consent holders have
been assessed on environmental performance and on consent compliance. The ratings for
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 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
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 Vector, this report
also assigns them a rating for their environmental and administrative
other hand has the youngest
population in the region with almost a quarter of its residents under the age
of 15.
According to the 2018 Census, 19.8% of the region’s population is Māori (up
from 16.5% in 2013), with 27.6% of the population of the South Taranaki
district being Māori (up from 24.3%).
At the end of June 2020, the unemployment rate across the region was at
4.3% with only small variations from one district to another (compared to 4%
nationally). Rates of
other hand has the youngest
population in the region with almost a quarter of its residents under the age
of 15.
According to the 2018 Census, 19.8% of the region’s population is Māori (up
from 16.5% in 2013), with 27.6% of the population of the South Taranaki
district being Māori (up from 24.3%).
At the end of June 2020, the unemployment rate across the region was at
4.3% with only small variations from one district to another (compared to 4%
nationally). Rates of
combined with efficient recycling, the small volumes of surface water
required to be abstracted for washing at quarries fit within the permitted activity rule
[Rule 15] of the Regional Fresh Water Plan for Taranaki. That is, the abstraction
volume shall not exceed 50 cubic metres per day, and the abstraction rate shall not
exceed 1.5 litres per second.
Winstone Aggregates hold water abstraction permit 1508-3 to take water from an
unnamed tributary of the Manganui Stream in the Oaonui
holder, in conjunction with the Council,
undertake ecological monitoring associated with the abstraction.
Condition 2 stipulates that the consent holder records the daily rates of abstraction
and make these records available to the Council.
Condition 3 deals with review procedures.
Fonterra also holds water permit 0920 to take up to 700 cubic metres/day of water
from a bore in the Kaupokonui Catchment for factory cooling water using plate heat
exchangers. This permit was issued by the
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 Company’s
approach to demonstrating consent compliance
odour at
significant rates for 6 hours.
Accordingly, measures that might assist to reduce
odour effects include that wastewater land irrigation of
aerobic pond effluent on any day between the last
Sunday in September and the first Sunday in April
should be undertaken prior to 2.00 pm (daylight
saving time). If effluent from shed wastes or an
anaerobic pond is spread or sprayed onto land, it
should be undertaken before 12 noon. As far as
practicable and
don’t panic! If officers suspect possums are
greater than a 10% catch rate (or 10 possums caught in
100 traps) you may be issued with a Notice of Direction.
This is a formal legal document that may seem a bit scary
but essentially it’s a formal reminder that you need to
undertake control by a set date. We then re-check to
make sure numbers have reduced. If they haven’t you
will have failed to comply and further action can be
taken.
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