Taranaki Regional Council – Pre-Election Report – July 2019 4 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,
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 take data) …
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.
clauses 3.31, 3.32, and 3.33 for exceptions to this. page Technical Memorandum | Draft Baseline State for Taranaki Lakes (Trophic State) make predictions of water quality parameters such as total nitrogen, total phosphorus, ammonia and chlorophyll-a. The spatial water quality attribute models were variable in performance however, with the exception of the ammonia criteria, those utilised for this assessment were rated to have satisfactory to very good performance (Snelder
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 page
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 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
being is repeated in this glossary simply for the purpose of assistance. In the case of any inconsistency or amendment of the definition the statutory definition prevails. Accelerated coastal erosion means intensification of the rate of erosion of the land surface (including soil, regolith and bedrock), induced by human activity. Accretion means the seaward extension of land as a result of the deposition of sediments. Act* means the Resource Management Act 1991. Air means
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
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