gardens and horticulture. They assess their member’s
gardens and provide visitors with information that truly reflects the garden
experiences. The NZGT assessment is an assurance that you are visiting a
quality garden.
Tūpare has been awarded a six-star rating by NZGT. This rating means Tūpare provides one of New
Zealand’s top garden experiences. These gardens achieve and maintain the highest levels of
presentation, design and plant interest throughout the year. They are the complete
gardens and horticulture. They assess their member’s
gardens and provide visitors with information that truly reflects the garden
experiences. The NZGT assessment is an assurance that you are visiting a
quality garden.
Tūpare has been awarded a six-star rating by NZGT. This rating means Tūpare provides one of New
Zealand’s top garden experiences. These gardens achieve and maintain the highest levels of
presentation, design and plant interest throughout the year. They are the complete
gardens and horticulture. They assess their member’s
gardens and provide visitors with information that truly reflects the garden
experiences. The NZGT assessment is an assurance that you are visiting a
quality garden.
Tūpare has been awarded a six-star rating by NZGT. This rating means Tūpare provides one of New
Zealand’s top garden experiences. These gardens achieve and maintain the highest levels of
presentation, design and plant interest throughout the year. They are the complete
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.
Evaluation of environmental and administrative performance
Besides discussing the various details of the performance and extent of compliance by the Trust, this report
also assigns a rating as to their environmental and administrative performance during the period under
review.
Environmental performance
to minimise the generation of wastewater, but this could be further improved.
The discharge of wastewater into the Kahouri Stream did not cause any recorded impact on
the macroinvertebrate communities of this stream, and the impact on water quality was
minimal. However, discharge rates to the Kahouri Stream need to be reduced to ensure a 1:100
dilution. The irrigation of wastewater was undertaken with no significant adverse effects on
the environment, but further improvement regarding
amenity values of
Opunake Lake.
2. The rate of taking shall not exceed 3,900 litres per second.
3. The consent holder shall notify the Council within three working days of water first
being taken for the purpose of electricity generation. For clarity, where the conditions of
this consent refer to the date that consent is first exercised that date shall be the date that
water is first taken for the purpose of electricity generation.
4. The consent holder shall measure and record the
Taranaki By-Products groundwater monitoring well locations 19
Figure 4 Consent 2051-4 surface water abstraction data, Inaha Stream 2016-2017 monitoring year 24
Figure 5 Daily groundwater abstraction volumes consent 9756-1 TBP 2016-2017 25
Figure 6 Hydrograph for Inaha Stream at Kohiti Road July 2016-June 2017 with overlay of pond 6
discharge rate 33
Figure 7 Cooling water temperature 2016-2017 34
Figure 8 Inaha Stream temperature increase post discharge 2016-2017 35
Figure 9
Freshwater ecological monitoring state of the environment report - Taranaki Regional Council.
Transport
Committee and as convener of the SH3 Working Party, the
Council worked with the New Zealand Transport Agency as
various options were considered for the $245 million
improvements to SH3 at Mt Messenger and Awakino Gorge.
Strong financial position
The Council finished the 2016/2017 year with a surplus of
$1.6 million (total comprehensive income). Expenditure was
$568,000 under budget. Overall it was a good result, noting
that the general rates increases have
Freshwater ecological monitoring state of the environment report - Taranaki Regional Council.