damage caused by the June 2015 flood.
The monitoring showed that overall the scheme was operated well, and within resource
consent requirements, with no breaches of lake level requirements, residual flow requirements
or rise and recession rate restrictions for the lower Patea River. The Company coordinated a
number of investigations and reports during the reporting period. The bulk of the required
monitoring has been undertaken prior to the 2015-2016 period, although the current report
sustained.
Notification of Annual Plan and rates to be discussed under general business.
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1. Confirmation of Minutes – 25 February 2020
Resolves
That the Taranaki Regional Council:
takes as read and confirms the minutes and resolutions of the Ordinary Meeting
of the Taranaki Regional Council held in the Taranaki Regional Council chambers,
47 Cloten Road, Stratford, on Tuesday 25 …
due to the time it has taken to resolve the
loss of the McColl’s Quarry flow recorder in the June 2015 flood.
The monitoring showed that overall the scheme was operated well, and within resource consent
requirements, with no breaches of lake level requirements or rise and recession rate restrictions for the
lower Patea River. There were a small number of occasions when the residual flow in the Lower Patea River
dropped below the consented limit, but this was due in-part to a Transpower
some upper catchments channel stability deteriorating at a faster
rate than others.
As all channels discharge through the occupied ring plain any changes in channel
condition may affect adjoining property, public and private assets, infrastructure and
communications. It is in relation to these matters that Council has statutory functions
and responsibilities.
Storm event related channel deterioration over the last few years has resulted in
Council taking action to provide assistance
its approach
and that of consent holders to resource management and, ultimately, through the refinement of 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 the consent holders,
this report also assigns a rating as to each Company’s environmental and
performance and extent of compliance by the Company, 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 on the receiving environment from the
activities during the monitoring year. Administrative performance is concerned with the Company’s
approach to demonstrating consent compliance in site operations and management including the timely
provision of …
requirements, which
occurred following the lowering of lake levels for winter maintenance of a boat ramp. The Company was
issued an infringement notice in relation to this non-compliance. During the reported period, the Company
was fully compliant with their residual flow limits and the rise and recession rate restrictions for the lower
Patea River.
The Company was required to coordinate a number of investigations and reports during the reporting
period. The bulk of the monitoring work required in
Piggery 29
Appendix II Resource consents held by NZ Pure Bred Genetics Ltd Piggery 31
Appendix III Flow rating for Rumkeg Creek 33
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List of tables
Table 1 Location of sampling sites in Rumkeg Creek, a tributary of
the Manganui River 11
Table 2 Results from NZ Pure Bred Genetics Ltd and Rumkeg Creek
sampled on 14 August 2012 12
Table 3 Results from NZ Pure Bred Genetics Ltd piggery and
Rumkeg Creek, sampled on 19 June 2013 13
Table 4
nitrogen concentration in the pond and the rainfall 30 days prior to the
sampling event. This was based on 7 ammoniacal nitrogen concentrations
measured between October 2017 and April 2019. The relationship has an
R2 value of 74%.
Using this relationship, the monthly rainfall from 2018 was used to
calculate monthly nitrogen concentrations in the pond. The concentration
was converted to a loading rate in kg/ha/month based on the volume
irrigated (calculated from 2018 irrigation hours and an
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 concerned with the Company’s approach to demonstrating consent
compliance in site operations and management