exceed 11,950 m3, rate of
discharge not to exceed 138 L/s
Data submitted to TRC in monthly and annual reports
by NPDC (Appendix IV).
Yes
2. Cease discharge after Waitara to
New Plymouth pipeline is
commissioned
Pipeline due to be commissioned during summer 2014. N/A
3. pH 6-12 in at least 98% of discharge
samples over 12 month period
Data submitted to TRC in monthly and annual reports
by NPDC (Appendix IV).
Not quite:
97.3% pH 6-12
See Appendix IV
4.
ecology
inspection. The Company carried out air emission sampling and groundwater monitoring
through independent consultants and further storm water sampling, and forwarded the
results to the Council for audit and review.
Processing rates continued to increase during the period, particularly for herbicides.
The monitoring showed that the Company has had no significant impact on air quality in the
vicinity of the plant or on water quality in the Herekawe Stream. No complaint about odour
was
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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
interventions and any evidence of a change in attainment of the NPS-FM
swimmability criteria; the very high rate of attainment of swimmability in Taranaki
if assessed against EU criteria instead of NPS-FM criteria; and the absence of any
correlation between nutrient trends and macroinvertebrate community health
trends
4. notes the report’s findings highlight the potential dangers of a ‘one size fits all’
problem analysis and solution imposition to water quality interventions at a
national level
unless the activity is expressly allowed for by
resource consent or a rule in a regional plan, or it falls within some particular
categories set out in Section 14.
The Council determined that the application to take groundwater fell within Rule 49
of the Regional Freshwater Plan for Taranaki (RFWP) as the rate and daily volume of
the groundwater abstraction might exceeded that of the permitted activity (Rule 48).
Rule 49 provides for groundwater abstraction as a controlled activity, subject
low flow conditions during the
monitoring period (at which time the Manaia system had been upgraded with the addition of
two wetlands, the Kaponga pond subsurface discharge rate was very low and receiving water
dilution very high, and the Patea upgraded ponds system discharged continuously), or on
other occasions when monitoring of impacts was required by specific consent conditions. This
monitoring continued the increased frequency of bacteriological receiving water surveys in the
lower
and a administrative performance for
their two facilities located on the Waitara and Pennington Roads, while environmentally,
improvement is required at RNZ’s Mokau Road facility at Uruti, though there administration
was rated as good.
For reference, in the 2015-2016 year, 71% of consent holders in Taranaki monitored through
tailored compliance monitoring programmes achieved a high level of environmental
performance and compliance with their consents, while another 24% demonstrated a good
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 management including the
avoid, remedy or mitigate adverse effects
of potentially hazardous, noxious, dangerous or toxic contaminants by ensuring that
any such discharge does not occur at a volume, concentration or rate or in such a
manner that causes or is likely to cause a hazardous, noxious, dangerous or toxic
effect on human or animal health, significant ecosystems or structures.
"by ensuring any such discharge does not occur" is directive language establishing a
bottom line in terms of dangerous