abstracted for washing at quarries fit within the permitted activity rule [Rule 15] of the
Regional Fresh Water Plan for Taranaki. That is, the abstraction volume shall not
exceed 50 cubic metres per day, and the abstraction rate shall not exceed 1.5 litres per
second.
No consent for abstraction of surface water is required at this quarry. Wastewater and
washwater is recirculated to minimise the volume of discharge and to reduce the need
for water abstraction.
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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 demonstrating consent compliance in site operations and management including the timely
provision of information to Council (such
Efficiency and Effectiveness of the Regional Coastal Plan for Taranaki (2009).
significant adverse effects on either the Puremu Stream or the Manganaha
Stream from the discharges from the Colson Road Landfill at the time of 2014-2015 surveys.
Air quality monitoring showed that off site suspended particulates and dust deposition rates
were within guideline levels.
There were 20 incidents associated with the Colson Road landfill in the 2014-2015 period, all
of which related to odours. Although it was found that the site was compliant with consent
conditions at the time of
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 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
statistically significant, and that has a relative magnitude > 1 percent change per year),
it has not been adopted in this report. While this method is useful and indicative when used to analyze a
short, or initial, time period, it becomes less useful as the time series being studied grows longer. In fact, the
rate of change which may be considered meaningful is specific to each unique site. As a consequence, while
absolute and relative rates of change are calculated in this report, the interpretation
Regional Transport Committee Meeting Wednesday 5 September 2018
3. receives and notes the information presented on the NZ Transport Agency’s
announcement on Enhanced Financial Assistance Rates
4. receives and notes the information presented on the Ministry of Transport’s new
Regional Fuel Tax legislation.
Dunlop/McDonald
7. Release of the National Land Transport Programme 2018/19 - 2020/21
7.1 The memorandum updating Members on the release of the National Land
potentially an issue of legal
liability, the Council must be able to prove by investigation that the identified company is indeed the source
of the incident (or that the allegation cannot be proven).
Any investigations, interventions, and incidents for each site are discussed in subsection 3.
1.1.5. Evaluation of environmental performance
Besides discussing the various details of the performance and extent of compliance by SDC during the
period under review, this report also assigns a rating
officer who has experience
in dust complaints. This assessment will take
into account similar factors as for odour – the
frequency, intensity, duration, offensiveness, and
location of the event. In terms of the intensity of
a dust event being deemed offensive or
objectionable, it can be noted that in situations
involving exposure by the general public, the
experience of the Council is that a deposition rate
of more than O.13 grams per square metre per
day can
alleged to be associated with a particular site. If there is
potentially an issue of legal liability, the Council must be able to prove by
investigation that the identified company is indeed the source of the incident (or that
the allegation cannot be proven).
1.1.5 Evaluation of environmental 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