unable to identify a viable cheaper option between options 1 and 2. General Funding Questions 31. A number of submitters infer or claim the increase in rates to pay for the repair and updates is on top of the rates already being levied for the stadium. This is incorrect. Existing rating mechanisms end and have been incorporated into the proposed rating system. 32. Some submitters have argued for alternative funding sources, such as the Provincial Growth Fund, TSB Community
The engineers, designers and architects involved in this project, were unable to identify a viable cheaper option between options 1 and 2. General Funding Questions 31. A number of submitters infer or claim the increase in rates to pay for the repair and updates is on top of the rates already being levied for the stadium. This is incorrect. Existing rating mechanisms end and have been incorporated into the proposed rating system. 32. Some submitters have argued for
(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 …
some minor issue in regards to abstraction rates during the brief intermittent periods of low flow restrictions in the Patea River, however, no environmental effects were noted. During the year, SDC demonstrated a high level of environmental performance. However SDC demonstrated a poor level of administrative performance due to the fact, that despite repeated reminders by Council staff, renewal applications for the weirs in the Konini Stream and Patea River, and for the backwash discharge
longer periods rather than at high rates for short periods. The filter is backwashed once per week to a series of two soak holes. The capacity of the soak holes is more than adequate to deal with the volumes of backwash which they receive. 1.3. Resource consents SDC holds various resource consents for the water supply plants and structures that it operates, including water abstraction permits, discharge permits and land use consents. These consents are listed in Table 1 and
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
with parameters typical of a municipal oxidation pond system receiving minimal industrial waste loadings. No significant impacts on the Kaupokonui River were recorded from the physicochemical parameters analysed during the mid-summer survey conducted in January 2020, when a moderately high discharge rate of well-treated wastewater characterised this system. No impacts of the effluent discharge were indicated by MCI scores through the reach of the river surveyed. During the year, STDC …
“TRC SEM” samples1 analysed exceeded the 4g/m2/30 days deposition rate guideline, with only 26% of all the gauges collected in the airshed as a whole exceeding this guideline. There were two gauging locations, one in the vicinity of each of 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 Downer EDI Works Limited gauges, which was
Besides discussing the various details of the performance and extent of compliance by the Company, this report 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 …