allowed for by a resource consent, or a rule in a
regional plan, or meets criteria set out in Section 14(3) of the RMA.
The Regional Freshwater Plan for Taranaki (RFWP) became operative on 8 October 2001.
It is a statutory document which outlines the Council’s policy with respect to activities in
relation to freshwater under the RMA.
Rule 15 of the RFWP provides for the abstraction of up to 50 cubic metres per day
(m3/day) of surface water at a maximum rate of 1.5 litres per second (L/s) as
Predator-Free project, the ambitious region-
wide campaign launched in May 2018.
Monitoring data shows this intensive predator control may already be making a difference – rats and possums in
urban New Plymouth are decreasing, while the trapping network in rural and urban areas is expanding rapidly.
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 over the year, while the urban New Plymouth
within 12 months of the
granting of this consent, subject to conditions 1 and 2 of consent 5080.
3. That the consent holder shall install and operate a measuring device capable of
measuring, at a minimum of 15 minute intervals, the abstraction rate of water from
the Manganui River and shall make records of such measurements available to the
Chief Executive, at three monthly intervals.
4. That the abstraction shall be managed so as to ensure that when the flow in the
Waitara
analysed exceeded the
4g/m2/30 days deposition rate guideline, with only 28% of all the gaugings collected in the
airshed as a whole exceeding this guideline. There were three gauging locations, one in the
vicinity of each of Fitzroy Engineering Group Limited, Ravensdown Fertiliser Co-operative
Limited and Katere Surface Coatings Limited, where the guideline was exceeded at the time
of both surveys. The highest result obtained during the year under review was one of the
Katere Surface Coatings
Fern Farms in relation to their Waitotara site 9
Table 2 Monthly average and maximum instantaneous groundwater abstraction rates 2018-2019 13
Table 3 Monthly average and maximum instantaneous spring water abstraction rates 2018-2019 14
Table 4 Chemical monitoring results for the irrigation pond 2018-2019 15
Table 5 Groundwater monitoring sites 16
Table 6 Water quality results for monitoring bores October 2018 to September 2019 17
Table 7 Chemical composition of Te Kiri o
requirement of the renewed
consent.
Stormwater from the site continued to be diverted to containment ponds, with the stormwater batch released
after quality checks. Sample results for the discharge samples collected by the Council were within those
prescribed by consent conditions.
Particulate deposition from air emissions was, in general, similar to the previous monitoring periods. At the
monitoring site west of the plant site the lactose deposition rate was found to be 7% over the guideline
rates 2017-2018 14
Table 3 Monthly average and maximum instantaneous spring water abstraction rates 2017-2018 15
Table 4 Chemical monitoring results for the irrigation pond 2017-2018 16
Table 5 Groundwater monitoring sites 17
Table 6 Water quality results for monitoring bores October 2017 to September 2018 18
Table 7 Chemical composition of Te Kiri o Rauru spring 23
Table 8 Summary of performance for consent 2260-3.1 26
Table 9 Summary of performance for consent 2261-3.1
consents held by Silver Fern Farms Limited (Waitotara)
List of tables
Table 1 Monthly average and maximum instantaneous groundwater abstraction rates 2016-2017 13
Table 2 Monthly average and maximum instantaneous spring water abstraction rates 2016-2017 14
Table 3 Chemical monitoring results for the irrigation pond 2016-2017 15
Table 4 Groundwater monitoring sites 16
Table 5 Water quality results for monitoring bores October 2016 to September 2017 17
Table 6 Chemical
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Appendices
Appendix 1: Charging policies
Resource Management Act charging policy
Schedule of charges pursuant to section 36 of the Resource Management Act 1991
SCHEDULE 1: SCALE OF CHARGES FOR STAFF TIME
Rate for processing resource consents
and responding to pollution incidents.
Rate for all other Council work.
Professional staff $101/hr $96/hr
Professional/supervisory staff $128/hr $120/hr
Managers $185/hr $173/hr
Support staff
consent holder during the period under review, this report also assigns a rating as
to SDC environmental and administrative performance.
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 consent holder approach to demonstrating consent
compliance in site operations and management including the timely provision of
information to Council (such as