periphyton for all sites and by
testing the significance of any trend using the Mann-Kendall test at the 5% level, followed by
Benjamini-Hochberg False Discovery Rate (FDR) analysis. Of the trends, ten were significant
at the 5% level. Two remained significant after FDR application.
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Most upstream sites, except for those in the Waiwhakaiho and Waiongana Streams,
generally contained a low periphyton biomass throughout the year. Almost all downstream
sites, except the Stony River and
Plymouth has increased, with housing affordability decreasing, this is at a lower
rate than the national average.
Figure 4.6: Housing Affordability Index comparison against others
New Plymouth has a lower housing affordability index than the national average. The New Plymouth
HAI is 6.15 which is less than the New Zealand HAI of 7.85 and significantly less than Auckland which
is 9.02. The HAI for South Taranaki is lower than New Plymouth and Stratford which increased in 2021
to 6.15
the
region’s resources.
Evaluation of environmental and administrative performance
Besides discussing the various details of the performance and extent of compliance by STDC, 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
Freshwater ecological monitoring state of the environment report - Taranaki Regional Council.
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 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 …
spoke to the memorandum to adopt the
Council’s 2019/2020 Annual Plan. Chairman MacLeod gave a brief background to the
process leading up today, and thanked management staff for their effort and hard
work required over this process.
Resolved
THAT the Taranaki Regional Council:
a) receives and acknowledges, with thanks, the submissions forwarded in response
to the Consultation Document on the 2019/2020 Annual Plan
b) confirms a nil general rates change for 2019/2020
c)
Company notified the Council that a damaged irrigation
line had been discovered and that there was the potential that the resource consent conditions could be
breached. The damaged line was repaired without any discharges to surface water occurring.
Particulate deposition from air emissions was, in general, similar to the previous monitoring periods. At the
monitoring site east of the taker bay the lactose deposition rate was found to be almost four times the
guideline value and was the
guideline rate. However it could not be determined if the results originated from the activities at the
consent holder’s site or from the neighbouring properties. The guideline reflects a deposition rate that may
cause complaints in a residential area.
In the 2017-2018 year there were no confirmed unauthorised incidents related to discharges from any of
the air discharge consent holders in the Lower Waiwhakaiho area.
During the year, Downer EDI Works Ltd demonstrated a high level of
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 information to Council (such as contingency plans and water take data) in accordance
rating as to each Company’s environmental and administrative performance during
the period under review. The rating categories are high, good, improvement required and poor for both
environmental and administrative performance. The interpretations for these ratings are found in
Appendix II.
For reference, in the 2021-2022 year, consent holders were found to achieve a high level of environmental
performance and compliance for 88% of the consents monitored through the Taranaki tailored