surplus of $761,000 (total
comprehensive income). Expenditure was $777,000 below
budget while revenue was $238,000 above budget. This was
a good result, noting that general rates had been raised by
around 1.5% for each of the previous two years, which is
well below inflation levels. 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
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 rating categories are high, good, improvement required and poor for both
regional plan requirements. The non-
compliance rate for failure to meet resource consent
conditions was 6.6% for dairy farms, a small change from the
previous year. The Council will continue to monitor farm
dairy effluent systems closely to ensure compliance with the
Council’s requirements.
Complementing the agricultural monitoring programme, the
Council inspected 221 minor industrial operations in
2013/2014. Minor industries include agricultural services,
light engineering, panel beaters,
expired consents
(including the consents for the dam structures themselves), while also seeking to
increase the rate of take / diversion from the Manganui River from 5.2m3/s to 7.5m3/s.
3. You have asked for our advice on what constitutes the “existing environment” when
considering the application to replace the expired consents. In particular, you have
asked:
a. Where structures impede desired fish passage, but have been in place for
over 90 years, can the Council require (and
production bore, abstraction pipework monitoring
equipment and associated infrastructure; and
obtaining manual measurements of groundwater levels in the production and
observation bores and retrieving electronic data.
To monitor the exercising of consent 7470-1.1 abstraction volume and rate data are recorded
electronically at the site by a data logging system and transferred to the Council via telemetry,
so the data can be viewed in real time. Three groundwater monitoring bores were also
monitor the exercising of consent 7470-1.1 abstraction volume and rate data is recorded
electronically at the site by a datalogging system and is transferred to the Council via
telemetry, so the data can be viewed in real time. Three groundwater monitoring bores were
also installed within the vicinity of the production bore to monitor the effects of the abstraction
on local groundwater levels. Groundwater levels within two of the monitoring bores
(GND2102 and GND2103) are monitored electronically
remain high
for the Mt Messenger and Awakino projects.
STRONG FINANCIAL POSITION
The Council finished the 2015/2016 year with a surplus
of $963,000 (total comprehensive income). Expenditure
was $373,000 over budget, in large part due to the
Council providing unbudgeted emergency funding to
assist those in need following the severe winter storm
damage. Overall it was a good result, noting that
general rates increases have been at or below the rate
of inflation
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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).
participants indicated that they were from outside the region. This is comparable
to the 2018 statistics NZ results which show that for residents in Taranaki, 67% are in the
New Plymouth District, 8% in Stratford, and 23% in South Taranaki. While there is a slight
over, representation in New Plymouth, the spread across the different districts is generally
good.
The district demographic question was a required field and so there was a 100% response
rate from the survey group.
Figure 2