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 receiving
environment from the
the following regional
councils: Auckland Regional Council, Environment Canterbury, Horizons, Northland,
Wellington, Otago, Hawkes Bay and Environment Waikato.
Several of these councils have key performance indicators (KPIs) that set targets for customer
satisfaction, e.g. ARC – ‘At least 75% of customers are satisfied with the resource consent
process’, Greater Wellington – ‘60% of recent applicants and existing consent holders rate
level of satisfaction as excellent or very good’.
Of
in redox
conditions occurred within the aquifer over this period. While the exact cause of this
change remains unclear, it may be related to changes in abstraction rates from the
bore over the corresponding period. The concentrations of all analytes had returned
to ‘typical’ values for this site by the end of the monitoring period.
The trends identified at shallow sampling sites appear to be driven by a wider range
of processes than those at deeper sites. At site GND0827, the
rodents and possums in urban areas where there is
co-ordinated pest control. Monitored bush reserves in New
Plymouth with regular rodent control recently achieved
a monitoring rate of less than 10% (rodent tracking rate).
Although there is still work to do, this is considerably lower
than the 40-50% regularly recorded in small rural bush
remnants (<50ha), or the over 75% recorded in large areas
of contiguous bush (>300ha) without effective rat control.
Rat abundance in
observations of the experts. Importantly, there are fundamental changes
proposed to the poultry farm operations, which will reduce the impacts of the air
discharges applied for in this Application, including2:
(a) the discharge consent is sought for a free-range broiler operation with a
reduced stocked rate of a maximum of 15 birds per square metre (61, 020
birds);
(b) roof fans with misting devices will be installed on the roof of the existing
sheds (and will be at least 100m from the
freshwater quality in these other places, but their
issues are not the same as those in Taranaki.
Using the industry-standard nutrient budgeting
model ‘Overseer’ to impose nutrient caps could
impose very high costs on the dairy industry in
Taranaki, to the detriment of the regional and
national economies. And the clear environmental
benefits would be uncertain and at present
unknowable. The inaccuracy rate for Overseer in
Taranaki is significantly higher than
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 environmental and
administrative
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 environmental and administrative performance during the period
under review.
Environmental performance is …
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
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 environmental and administrative performance during the period
under review.
Environmental …