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 would not
Ordinary Council meeting agenda February 2018.
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
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 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
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. Environmental performance is concerned with actual or likely effects on the receiving environment from the activities during the monitoring year. Administrative performance is …
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,
physicochemical analysis and three biomonitoring surveys of receiving waters. In addition, monthly emission results and abstraction records were provided to the Council which were reviewed. The monitoring showed that the Stratford Power Station continued to be well managed with negligible environmental effects as a process of the exercise of their consents. Surface water abstraction was compliant with daily rate and volume. Process water discharges were compliant with consent defined …
activity may have on the environment. In addition, the applicant is required to identify the ways in which those effects can be avoided, remedied or mitigated. Schedule 4 can be viewed at www.trc.govt.nz/resource-consent-application-forms AEE included? (please attach separate document) ☐ Yes Where relevant the AEE must include, but not be limited to (tick all that apply): AEE Page Number Section ☐ The rate of discharge and hydrological effects ☐ Ecosystem health
Policy & Planning Committee agenda February 2021