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,
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Appendices
Appendix 1: Charging policies
Resource Management Act charging policySchedule 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 $111/hr $106/hr
Professional/supervisory staff $141/hr $132/hr
Team Leaders $173/hr $161/hr
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
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
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
number (refer to
land title or rates notice)
5.3 Map reference/s NZTM Co-ordinates at
point of activity
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5.4 Closest Waterbody
Provide the name of the closest
river or stream to the activity
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5.5 If the owner and/or occupier of the activity site differ from the applicant please provide their name and contact
details Please note that written approval is
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
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