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Give full details of the source of the discharge and any
treatment it will receive prior to discharge:
These details are provided in sections 3 and 5 of the attached
Assessment of Environmental Effects.
Liquids discharged to water
What is the proposed maximum rate of discharge?
Rate 7787.0
Unit Litres per second
How
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 consent holders,
this report also assigns a rating as to each Company’s environmental and administrative performance during
the period under review. The
of the volume of water abstracted and the volume of wastewater
discharged.
During the year, Silver Fern Farms demonstrated a good level of environmental and high level of
administrative performance with the resource consents.
Breaches of the abstraction permits were recorded during the monitoring period. This related to two matters.
In one case, subsidence of the pump shed was causing pipes to break affecting the volume and rate of take. A
temporary repair by the consent holder was
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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
the Council to 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 holders,
this report also assigns a rating as to each Company’s
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
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 high, good, improvement
within Port Taranaki and two consents that allow them to discharge sediment into
the inshore and offshore spoil disposal areas in the Tasman Sea.
In order to reflect the increased rate of sand entering the harbour that has been observed in recent years,
the Company applied to change certain consent conditions during the monitoring period. On 9 December
2020, two resource consents were varied in order to increase the allowable cumulative removal and offshore
deposition volumes in any three
under consent conditions and this showed that daily
volume limits and instantaneous abstraction rates were complied with for the majority of the monitoring
period. Self-monitoring of the Inglewood discharge showed that the discharge generally complied with
consent conditions.
During the year, NPDC demonstrated a high level of environmental and administrative performance with the
resource consents.
For reference, in the 2020-2021 year, consent holders were found to achieve a high level
is also measurable nitrate recorded. The fire pond discharges into the Inaha Stream
year round, irrespective of the flow conditions in the Inaha Stream.
The dilution rate of the wastewater discharge to the Inaha Stream was compliant for the duration of the
discharge. The analysis of the oxygen and the sodium absorption ratio of the wastewater were compliant
when assessed.
The application of wastewater and fertiliser to land was limited to below 250 kg N/ha across all irrigation