Commentary/Highlights
The Council is implementing 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 programmes for
hydrocarbon exploration and development activities as they arise. Consent holders are assessed on environmental performance
and on consent compliance. The ratings for these consent holders in 2014/2015 was found to be 75% ‘high’ and 22%
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 programmes for
hydrocarbon exploration and development activities as they arise. Consent holders are assessed on environmental performance
and on consent compliance. The rates for these consent holders in 2014/2015 was found to be 75% ‘high’ and 22% ‘good’. The
farm dairy effluent
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 management including the timely provision of
information to Council (such as contingency plans and water take data)
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 during the period under review, this report also assigns a rating as
to the Company’s environmental and administrative performance.
Environmental performance is concerned
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 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
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1.1.5. 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
administrative performance.
Environmental performance is concerned with actual or likely effects on the receiving environment from the
activities during the monitoring year. Administrative
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
significant confusion in
the community.
• Some permitted activity standards are also arguably redundant. For example, the permitted
activity standards under regulation 13 for stockholding areas require the area be sealed so that
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water cannot permeate faster than a certain rate and the area be 50m away from any water
body or drain. If an area is appropriately sealed and effluent appropriately
various details of the performance and extent of compliance by the Trust, 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 Trust’s approach to
demonstrating consent compliance in site operations and management including the
quality criteria. Irrigation of wastewater during the year led to mass loadings of
nitrogen per hectare that were well in excess of those recommended by the Council and the description of
N loadings previously provided by RNZ. The rates of application in 2021-2022 raise questions about
whether the ability of pasture to take up nitrogen could be surpassed, and the timing and volume of
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irrigation events suggest that irrigation is being used as a means to prevent the