flowmeters and flow data provision. The
Company plans to make further upgrades to the stormwater system with the goal of further improving
discharge quality. Water take and discharge rates are now being telemetered to the Council, but a review of
the placement of the flowmeters is still required. The groundwater monitoring bores have been installed
and monitoring will begin in the forthcoming year.
For reference, in the 2020-2021 year, consent holders were found to achieve a high level of
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 consent holders,
this report also assigns a rating as to each companies environmental and administrative performance during
the period under review. The rating categories are high,
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. The rating categories are high, good, improvement required and poor for both
environmental and administrative performance. The interpretations for these ratings are found in
Appendix II.
For reference, in the 2021-2022 year, consent holders were found to achieve a high level of environmental
performance and
the 2021/2031 Long-Term
Plan (LTP)). General rates will increase by $1.77m (15%)
for 2023/2024 – an extra $30 per year for most residential
ratepayers. The LTP had forecast a $0.58m (5%) rise for
2023/2024. The Dividend Equalisation Reserve, grown
through the Council’s long-standing ownership of Port
Taranaki Ltd, contributed $1m to offset the rise in
general rates.
While there are no new work programmes to those set
out in the LTP, specific additions in the Plan include
resource consents held by Fonterra for the Whareroa site 5
Table 3 Summary of abstraction rate data for 2021-2022 10
Table 4 Limits for stormwater composition for each parameter (consents 3902, 3907, 4133) 12
Table 5 Sample results for the stormwater discharge to an unnamed tributary of the Tawhiti Stream 13
Table 6 Sample results for the stormwater discharge to an unnamed tributary of the Tangahoe River 14
Table 7 Sample results for the stormwater discharge to an unnamed coastal
the on-
site activities, and compliance with the conditions of the consents during the period under review. The
monitoring programme for this year included nine inspections, one water sampling survey, one soil
sampling survey, and two in-stream biomonitoring surveys.
During the monitoring period, the site generally demonstrated a level of administrative performance
that requires improvement in terms of annual reporting. The environmental performance is rated ‘good’
rather than high’ due to
levels. This had been addressed through extension of the irrigation disposal
system in 2007-2008, and by more intensive wastewater and groundwater monitoring. During the year
under review, there was a higher nitrogen load applied to the paddocks than in the 2017-2020 years. The
nitrogen application rates increased by about 14% on Farm 1 and 20% on Farms 2 and 3 in the 2019-2020
year, with further increases of 10% on Farm 1, 4% on Farm 2, and 18% on Farm 3 during the year under
review. On Farm 3,
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. The rating categories are high, good, improvement required and poor for both
environmental and administrative performance. The interpretations for these ratings are found in
Appendix II.
For reference, in the 2021-2022 year, consent holders were
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 holders,
this report also assigns a rating as to each Company’s environmental and administrative performance during
the period under review. The rating categories are
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Appendices
Appendix 1: Charging policies
Resource Management Act charging policySchedule 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 $111/hr $106/hr
Professional/supervisory staff $141/hr $132/hr
Team Leaders $173/hr $161/hr