good level of administrative performance.
STDC has advised council that the breaches in discharge rates at Opunake should be resolved by February
2020. The non-compliant breaches became apparent when council received the discharge data at the end of
the monitoring year.
For reference, in the 2018-2019 year, consent holders were found to achieve a high level of environmental
performance and compliance for 83% of the consents monitored through the Taranaki tailored monitoring
programmes,
budgeting for a 1.5%
rates rise in the 2013/2014 year on the back of a zero percent
rates rise in 2012/2013. This was assisted by improved
dividends from Port Taranaki Ltd, which is 100% owned by the
Council on behalf of the people of the region. The Council is
firmly committed to continued public ownership of the port.
Financially, the Council continued its strong financial
performance. Operating expenditure was 1.3% below budget.
On the resource management front, the Council had a busy
year
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 the Taranaki tailored
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(chlorophyll a 200
mg/m2) from 2025 onwards. The Council’s long-established chlorophyll a sampling protocol differs from
that established more recently for the NOF guideline and therefore results cannot be directly translated to
NOF bands. The Council is now also conducting a NOF-aligned periphyton monitoring programme.
Long-term trends in periphyton cover have been analysed using a combination of the Mann-Kendall
technique, a 5% significance level, and a Benjamini-Hochberg False Discovery Rate …
Table 1 Summary of performance for consent 7078-1 29
Table 2 Summary of performance for consent 6558-1 30
Table 3 Summary of performance for consent 2299-3 31
List of figures
Figure 1 Location and key features of the Normanby Power Ltd hydro-electric
scheme 5
Figure 2 Flow data recorded at Eltham Rd and State Highway 45, compared with
data provided by the Company, 10 May 2016 to 15 May 2016. 13
Figure 3 Residual flow data and abstraction rate data, provided by the Company. 14
environmental
performance and a good level of administrative performance. There were seven incidents
logged in regards to exceedance of abstraction rates by STDC plants, however these all were
found to be caused by operational events, such pump starts, air in the flow meters, and data
handling errors rather than actual non-compliances and/or sustained abstraction exceedances.
During the monitoring period, OWSL demonstrated an overall high level of environmental
performance and high level of
site.
Inspection visits typically comprised of:
• a visual inspection of the abstraction bore, production pipework monitoring equipment and
associated infrastructure; and
• obtaining manual measurements of groundwater levels in the abstraction 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,
continually refined and enhanced.
THE BOTTOM LINE
The Council finished the 2017/2018 year with a surplus
of $962,000 (total comprehensive income). Total
expenditure was $26.6m. Overall it was a good result,
noting that the general rates increases have been at or
below the rate of inflation for the past few years (a 1%
general rates increase in 2017/2018). The Council’s
balance sheet remains very strong, with no public debt.
All of the achievements outlined here
Overall it was
a good result, noting that the 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