hydrological monitoring was undertaken by maintaining the McColl’s Bridge flow recorder.
The monitoring showed that overall the scheme operated within resource consent requirements for the vast
majority of the period being reported. During this period, the Company was fully compliant with lake levels
and the rise and recession rate restrictions for the lower Patea River. The Company provided adequate
residual flows within the Patea River at all times, with the exception of one incident that was the …
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
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
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
and cost recovery 39
11 Training 41
12 Quality assurance and control 42
13 Review and reporting 43
14 References 44
List of photographs
Photo 1 Farm dairy and cows 2
Photo 2 Condition based monitoring with portable device 27
Photo 3 Visual inspection to check condition of the irrigator and application rate 28
Photo 4 Collecting samples, recording temperature and entering sample information into the
laboratory database remotely 29
Photo 5 Officer completing inspection
Kapuni Stream abstraction 11
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2.1.2.3 Intake options report and monitoring programme 11
2.1.2.4 Annual meeting regarding the Waingongoro River intake and
environmental performance 11
2.1.3 Discharge monitoring 12
2.1.3.1 Stormwater and raw water treatment discharges 12
2.1.4 Receiving environment monitoring 16
2.2 Land 17
2.2.1 Inspections 18
2.2.2 Discharge monitoring 19
2.2.2.1 Effluent volume 19
2.2.2.2 Nitrogen application rates …
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