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
Table 13 Summary of performance for Consent 0597-3 56
Table 14 Summary of performance for Consent 4046-3 57
List of figures
Figure 1 Daily water abstraction by Ballance Agri-Nutrients, July
2015 – June 2016, m³ 16
Figure 2 Irrigation areas 26
Figure 3 Nitrogen application rates on spray irrigation areas, January
1992 to June 2016 28
Figure 4 Locations of groundwater monitoring bores 31
Figure 5 Total nitrogen concentrations in groundwater beneath spray
irrigation areas
established chlorophyll
a sampling protocols differ from those established more recently in the NOF, and results
cannot be directly translated to NOF bands.
Trend analysis was performed by applying a LOWESS fit (tension 0.4) to a time scatterplot
of the percentage cover of thick mats, and long filaments of 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.
details of the performance and extent of compliance by the CCCWSL, 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 CCCWSL’s approach to
demonstrating consent compliance in site operations and management including the timely
Freshwater ecological monitoring state of the environment report - Taranaki Regional Council.
been rated as
Good, as although the performance against most consent conditions with respect to the
administrative compliance was high, issues around testing of the integrity of the water take
pipeline and meeting the requirements of the Resource Management (Measurement and Reporting
of Water Takes) Regulations 2010 are yet to be resolved. Methanex have been open and
participative in their communication with regard to their progress on these issues.
For reference, in the 2015-2016 year, 71%
Council to continually re-evaluate 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.
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
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 information to Council (such as …