environmental and administrative performance
Besides discussing the various details of the performance and extent of compliance by the consent holders,
this report also assigns a rating as to each Company’s 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
Monitoring by South Taranaki District Council 10
1.4.6.1 Flow rate 11
1.4.6.2 Dissolved oxygen 11
1.4.7 Additional reporting by South Taranaki District Council 11
2. Results 12
2.1 Inspections 12
2.2 Waste water treatment plant monitoring 12
2.2.1 Dissolved oxygen 12
2.2.2 Effluent monitoring 14
2.2.3 Chlorophyll a 16
2.2.4 Discharge volume monitoring by STDC 16
2.3 Impacts on receiving waters 18
2.3.2 Shellfish tissue surveys 22
2.3.2.1 Faecal coliforms in shellfish
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 performance is concerned with the Company’s approach to
demonstrating consent compliance in site operations
Taranaki coastline (Figure 3) is exposed to the west, and as a consequence, high energy
wave and wind conditions dominate the coastal environment. There are few areas of sheltered
water beyond the estuaries, such as those of Tongaporutu, Waitara and Pātea rivers, and the
confines of Port Taranaki.
Almost the entire Taranaki coastline is subject to varying rates of natural erosion – from waves
and wind. This has resulted in a predominantly cliffed coastline (approximately 90% of the
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 monitoring year. Administrative performance is concerned with the Company’s
approach to demonstrating …
Policy and Planning Agenda February 2024
following
the same procedure as short vegetation, as fencing has been shown to result in rapid reductions in
sediment exports (McKergow, Weaver et al. 2003), although little is currently known about fencing
impacts on bank erosion rates (Hughes 2016), which will depend on stream size, bank height, and
bank material.
Index 3 was designed to more accurately quantify the effects of stream shading by riparian
vegetation by comparing shading to the relative width of the stream.
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
NPDC, 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
method for controlling possums on the Taranaki ring plain with
the vast majority of the ring plain now encompassed by the self help programme. However it is unlikely to be cost effective to apply the
programme to properties in the eastern hill country.
The Council proposes to maintain low possum numbers through a sustained control Programme, by continuing to maintain landholders
capacity to carry out control, but at a less intensive rate than properties in the self help programme. This will
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 consent 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