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
methods
and considered 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 Methanex, 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
7)).
f. Insufficient characterisation of soils, particularly the
Anthropic Soils identified in the upper irrigation areas, to
determine the suitability of the irrigation rates and proposed
irrigation regime.
24 The Officer’s Report proposes Condition 37, which details the
requirements for a Site Exit Plan (SEP). Condition 37 proposes a
start date for preparation of the SEP (within 3 months of the
commencement date of these consents). I recommend the
inclusion of a date that the
NZ’s medium projection for births and deaths, and the high projection rate for net migration.
This reflects improving economic circumstances in the region, resulting in job creation and inward
migration patterns. Birth and death rates are likely to be substantially accurate given that they reflect
existing trends and there is little likelihood of step-changes in the rates. This population projection
covers the entire district, including rural areas.
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
“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
their performance, while the remaining one (<1%) achieved a rating of poor.
This report includes recommendations for the 2023-2024 monitoring period
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Table of contents
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1 Introduction 1
Compliance monitoring programme reports and the Resource Management Act 1991 1
Introduction 1
Structure of this report 1
The Resource Management Act 1991 and monitoring 1
Investigations, interventions, and incidents 2
Evaluation of