NZ’s medium projection for births and deaths, and the high projection rate for net migration.
This reflects improving economic circumstances in the region, resulting in job creation and inward
migration patterns. Birth and death rates are likely to be substantially accurate given that they reflect
existing trends and there is little likelihood of step-changes in the rates. This population projection
covers the entire district, including rural areas.
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 take data) in accordance
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1 Introduction
Currently, the minor taking and use of surface and groundwater in the Taranaki region is
a Permitted Activity within the Taranaki Regional Council’s Regional Freshwater Plan
[“Plan”], subject to various conditions relating in the main to abstraction flow rates and
daily volumes (refer Appendix One).
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 lead to justified complaints. For
suspended dust, an ambient concentration of
around 3 mg per cubic metre is the point at which
utilisation of additional pasture production is likely include the following:
Increase in stocking rate to utilise additional production during the summer and
autumn for increased milk solids production per hectare. Typically this would mean
an increase in stocking rate by approximately 0.4 to 0.6 cows per hectare
Reduction in supplementary feeding, such as silage and maize silage during the late
summer and autumn
Fewer cows are likely to dry off early due to higher pasture production in
abstraction rate from the Patea River during the low flow period. One incident was recorded
as a result and a letter requiring an explanation was issued. The subsequent response was
accepted.
During the year, SDC demonstrated a good level of both environmental and administrative
performance.
This report includes recommendations for the 2015-2016 year.
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the rest of
this Agenda Item:
The final option to be adopted for the repair/reinstatement and update of Yarrow
Stadium
The availability of the facilities for a multitude of users and sports at an affordable
cost
The Revenue and Financing Policy for Yarrow Stadium
The incidence of rates for industrial and commercial ratepayers in the New Plymouth
and North Taranaki constituencies
The incidence of rates for the Patea Ward of the South Taranaki District.
6.
general rates increases
have been at or below the rate of inflation for the past
few years. The Council’s balance sheet remains very
strong, with no public debt.
We gratefully acknowledge the efforts and
achievements of council staff during the year, ably
governed by a team of Councillors providing clear
direction, consistent with our mission.
David MacLeod Basil Chamberlain
Chairman Chief Executive
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Monitoring, using rat footprint tracking and a possum bite-mark index, show catch rates have
dropped; rats went from 33 per cent to 19 percent in the past year, while the urban New Plymouth
possum index has fallen from 25.6 to 1.4 per cent in the past four years. These results strongly suggest
the rapidly growing trapping network in urban New Plymouth backyards, parks and reserves is having
an impact,
site.
Inspection visits typically comprised of:
a visual inspection of the production bore, abstraction pipework monitoring equipment and
associated infrastructure; and
obtaining manual measurements of groundwater levels in the production and monitoring bores
and retrieving electronic data.
To monitor the exercising of consent 7470-1.2, abstraction volume and rate data are recorded electronically
at the site by a data logging system and transferred to the Council via telemetry,