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 compliance for 88% of the consents monitored through
memorandum on the consideration and adoption of the 2020/2021
Annual Plan
b) confirms a nil general rates increase for 2020/2021
c) notes the balanced budget deficit for 2020/2021 and confirms the transfer from the
dividend Equalisation Reserve to fund the balanced budget deficit.
d) notes that the use of the Dividend Equalisation Reserve to fund the balanced
budget surpluses and deficits balances out over the ten-year life of the 2018/2028
Long-Term Plan and that, over the full ten …
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 high, good,
climate and water use. This
enables us to assess the likely impacts of current and future
water takes on our waterways and the environmental,
social and cultural values they support. To protect these
values, we set limits on how much water can be taken from
rivers, streams and lakes, and the rate at which it can be
abstracted. We manage the use of water through policies,
regional rules and resource consents issued to water users.
River flows
For water management purposes
This is principally because, based on the
descriptions of the heating and ventilation systems, in my opinion, odour emission
rates will be lower and have the potential to be considerably lower than the
standard emission rate factors used for modelling odour from the chicken sheds.
38 In my view, the odour dispersion modelling results can also be calibrated using the
knowledge of complaints, compliance, and onsite odour observations, which
indicate a generally low level of
smell. During these
early weeks and when there are stronger winds the odour intensity is not
more than a 3 (distinct). But in the latter weeks of the cycle and when there
is slow air movement odour intensity can be up to a 4/5 (strong/very
strong). 2-3 times a year he would rate the odour at a 6 (extremely strong)
and this is generally observed as he is walking between the office and the
house.
4.27 Kevin also stated that the odour is more often observable at the house
rather than at his
Environmental
and structures (natural and man-made) that fish are able to negotiate over (both up and downstream).
The diversion of water for abstraction poses another impediment to fish migration if there is no safe
passage back to the river.
Water diverted for hydro generation is potentially damaging for fish and lethal in some cases. Fish
passing through turbines are subjected to pressure changes, cavitation and shear damage, and
mechanical strike. The survival rate during turbine passage is
of the consents monitored through the Taranaki
tailored monitoring programmes, while for another 10% of the consents, a good level of environmental
performance and compliance was achieved.
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In terms of overall environmental and compliance performance by the consent holder over the last several
years, this report shows that the consent holder’s performance decreased from high to good (based on
consent ratings related to the compliance issues). However, NPDC’s
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 consent compliance in site operations and management including the timely
provision of information to Council (such as contingency plans and water
the Meeting of Waters. The results suggest an impact from the increased rate of
take allowed by the variation of consent 2053 since 2016.
The Company has struggled to provide regular and timely updates on progress made towards monitoring
sedimentation within the lake in this monitoring period. Due to the late submission of a lake sedimentation
report during the writing of this report, a compliance assessment on the work undertaken by the Company
to date has not yet been made in this