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
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
the Meeting of Waters. The results suggest an impact from the increased rate of
take allowed by the variation of consent 2053 since 2016.
The Company has struggled to provide regular and timely updates on progress made towards monitoring
sedimentation within the lake in this monitoring period. Due to the late submission of a lake sedimentation
report during the writing of this report, a compliance assessment on the work undertaken by the Company
to date has not yet been made in this
region’s larger estuaries north
and south of the ring plain, as well as a number of smaller
stream mouths where tidal intrusion was marginal but
may occasionally occur. Three main outputs were provided
for each estuary: a habitat map, a vulnerability rating and
recommendations for future monitoring.
Overall vulnerability to the effects of sedimentation and
eutrophication was determined to be ‘high’ in five estuaries,
‘moderate to high’ in another five, ‘moderate’ in
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
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
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
-57,410 243,780 301,190 -57,410 4,729,359
Rent revenue 100,549 93,749 6,800 100,549 93,749 6,800 1,125,000
Dividends 0 0 0 0 0 0 8,000,000
Revenue from non-exchange transactions
General rates revenue 0 0 0 0 0 0 10,937,289
Targeted rates revenue 0 0 0 0 0 0 4,366,647
Direct charges revenue 94,259 182,076 -87,817 94,259 182,076 -87,817 12,820,150
Government grants 521,712 174,060 347,652 521,712 174,060 347,652 5,229,709
Vested assets 0 0 0 0 0 0 0