physicochemical analysis. The Company supplied records
of their own monitoring, as well as records of the volume of water abstracted and the volume of wastewater
discharged.
No breaches of the daily abstraction limits were recorded during the monitoring period. There were several
very short exceedances in the groundwater abstraction rate that were above the permitted measurement error
of the metering devices. The abstraction rate from the spring complied with consent limits in the year under
review.
over the past century at a rate of about 1.7 mm/year
and has very likely accelerated to 3.2 mm/year since 1993. Rising sea level is
already observed in Taranaki, with an average increase of 4.0 mm/year, just slightly
below the national average of 4.4 mm/year. By 2090, sea level rise of 0.5 – 0.7 m is
projected (relative to 1986-2005 baseline).
7. The report provides commentary on climate change impacts and implications for a
range of different environments and sectors of Taranaki.
Proposed rate changes ............................................................................. 23
Supporting information ............................................................................ 25
Audit report .............................................................................................. 26
Making a submission is easy ..................................................................... 28
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Consents & Regulatory Committee agenda June 2021
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obligations.
Comments and Recommendations
Option 1 was the Council’s preferred option. The regional community was evenly
split between the two options. If the Council were to move to Option 2, this would
result in an increase in budgets of $360,000 which would result in the increase in
total rates moving from 16.32% to 18.23%. It is recommended that Option 1 be
adopted and included in the 2024/2034 Long-Term Plan.
Recommendations:
That the Taranaki Regional
consents monitored required improvement
in their performance, while the remaining one (<1%) achieved a rating of poor.
In terms of overall environmental and compliance performance by the consent holder over the last several
years, this report shows that the consent holder’s performance remains at a high level.
This report includes recommendations for the 2023-2024 year.
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Compliance monitoring programme reports and
this reason, it was concluded
that the quarry discharges did not have a significant effect on the macroinvertebrate community
immediately downstream of the point of discharge to the Kurapete Stream.
While there has been a noticeable improvement in abstraction and discharge rates since a change in
Company ownership, a review of the flowmeters is required to supply more accurate information,
particularly in relation to groundwater abstraction rates. Although their consent conditions did not
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compliance with its resource consents during the period under review.
During the monitoring period Ample Group Limited demonstrated a good level of environmental
performance, but received an ‘improvement required’ rating for administrative performance, resulting in
an overall rating of ‘improvement required’.
The Company holds five resource consents which include a suite of conditions setting out the requirements
that the Company must comply with to minimise adverse effects to the