resultant
changes to the baseline monitoring programme, they have been included in this report. This is to provide
some continuity and an indication of the further work required should the project proceed.
No rating is given for environmental or administrative performance as the project was on hold for the year
under review and monitoring was for the purpose of baseline monitoring as oppose to compliance
monitoring of the exercise of any of the consents.
This report includes recommendations
assessment by supplementing the
limited monitoring data. In 2016, MfE commissioned a report to estimate the state of freshwaters in New
Zealand from a human health perspective (Snelder et al. 2016). Monitored water quality variables were
combined with catchment and land-use data to estimate water quality for all lakes in New Zealand, which
was subsequently used to make predictions of cyanobacterial biovolumes for all lakes. The spatial water
quality attribute models were rated to have satisfactory
that the shift from ‘very poor’ to
‘poor’ generic stream health has been maintained during these periods. This trend of
improvement in stream ‘health’ at this site is much more pronounced than the trend at the
site 1.5 km upstream. This indicates that improvements in the activities in the catchment
between these two sites have had a significant beneficial influence, with the rate of decline
per kilometre between the monitoring sites being below the historical average rate during
three of the
passage around in-stream barriers such as culverts,
dams and weirs.
Report sightings to the Taranaki Regional Council.
CONSERVATION
Giant kokopu have a conservation rating
of ‘At Risk, Declining’. They were once
very common and used as a primary
food source for Maori and early settlers.
THREATS
The main threats include:
Habitat loss and degradation.
Predation and competition by
introduced species.
Protect streamside vegetation by fencing it off from stock.
Plant native plants along stream edges to provide shaded habitats for
eels.
Create, protect and enhance wetlands on your property.
Encourage eel conservation and discourage over-fishing.
CONSERVATION
Longfin eel are an endemic species
and have a conservation rating of ‘at
risk, declining’.
THREATS
Threats include:
Commercial fishing.
Habitat loss and degradation.
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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 $95/hr $90/hr
Professional/supervisory staff $120/hr $112/hr
Managers $174/hr $163/hr
Support staff $95/hr $90/hr
Directors $290/hr $270/hr
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 environmental and administrative performance during the period
under review.
Environmental performance is concerned with actual or likely effects on the …
Significant deteriorations in black disc clarity
were recorded at two sites, one of which reflected historical erosion events in the headwaters.
The most improvement in long term water quality has been illustrated in the Waingongoro River at SH 45,
with significantly improving trends in dissolved reactive and total phosphorus, and with reduction in nitrate
and total nitrogen by slightly less than the rate defined as significant. This improvement has been
coincident with land-irrigation of a major
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 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 …
species and have a conservation rating
of ‘at risk, declining’.
THREATS
Threats to this species include:
Habitat loss and degradation.
Predation, mainly by the introduced
mosquito fish.
QUICK FACTS
Brown mudfish are the largest
species of mudfish in New Zealand.
Though they are named mudfish they
much prefer clear, non-turbid waters.
They can survive around two months
out of water.
It was the first mudfish species to be