Management Act 1991 expectations.
• A respectful and responsible regard for the Taranaki region’s environment and our
management of its natural resources. Reporting allows evaluation and
demonstration of the overall rate of compliance by sector and by consent holders as
a whole, and of trends in the improvement of our environment.
• The Council’s accountability and transparency. Reporting gives validity to
investment in monitoring and to assessments of effective intervention.
3. These
report and monitoring programme 10
2.1.2.4 Annual meeting regarding the Waingongoro River intake and
environmental performance 11
2.1.3 Discharge monitoring 11
2.1.3.1 Stormwater and raw water treatment discharges 11
2.1.4 Receiving environment monitoring 15
2.2 Land 16
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2.2.1 Inspections 17
2.2.2 Discharge monitoring 18
2.2.2.1 Effluent volume 18
2.2.2.2 Nitrogen application rates 18
2.2.3 Soil and herbage monitoring 19
2.2.3.1
required to enter three incidents in relation to
irrigation consents over this period, which resulted in two infringement notices being issued. The overall
rate of non-compliance across all exercised consents was 5%, which was similar to that seen during the
2019-2020 period (4%).
During the 2020-2021 year, 84% of exercised irrigation consents in Taranaki achieved a high level of
environmental performance and compliance with their consents, 11% achieved a good level of performance,
while 5%
operations and management including the timely
provision of information to Council (such as contingency plans and water take data) in accordance with
consent conditions.
Events that were beyond the control of the consent holder and unforeseeable (that is a defence under the
provisions of the RMA can be established) may be excluded with regard to the performance rating applied.
For example loss of data due to a flood destroying deployed field equipment.
The categories used by the Council for
Manganui River residual flow 13
Table 3 Details of consents and special conditions in relation to abstraction rates, discharge rates and
water levels and the recording 14
Table 4 Summary of summer Manganui River daily water temperatures (°C) prior to the increase in
residual flow to 400 L/s (1992-2002) and for the years since, upstream and downstream of the
Motukawa HEP weir 16
Table 5 Summary of maximum daily water temperatures in the Manganui River, upstream and
downstream of the
Streams. In the unnamed tributary, no
significant detrimental effects were found. However at the time of both surveys, the results suggested poor
preceding water quality that may be indicative of adverse effects associated with the landfill leachate.
Air quality monitoring showed that there were no significant adverse effects in relation to suspended
particulates, dust deposition rates or odour beyond the site boundary.
An enclosed gas flare system was installed for air quality control
Consent 0231-4 12
Table 3 Summary of performance for Consent 5453-2 14
Table 4 Summary of performance for Consent 10314-1 14
List of figures
Figure 1 Oaonui Water Supply Ltd’s water service area 4
Figure 2 Seven-day volume (consent limit 28,000 m3) 7
Figure 3 Daily abstraction rate (consent limit 50 L/s) 7
Figure 4 Macroinvertebrate index results recorded in the Oaonui Stream in relation to the OWSL
Stream Weir, December 2020 9
Figure 5 Macroinvertebrate index
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Foreword
We are pleased to present the Taranaki Regional Council’s 2020/2021 Annual Plan, which has a firm focus on
stability in uncertain times while taking into account the challenges and opportunities that will continue to arise
from the COVID-19 pandemic.
We’re budgeting for no change in general rates (0% rather than 3.8% as originally proposed). With the disruption
caused by the
Plan.
Resolved
That the Taranaki Regional Council:
a) receives this 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 …