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 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
water take consent conditions to
determine your allowed rate of take. You need to know
your allowed rate of take to see if you are covered by
the regulations and the date by which you must comply.
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There are around 20,000 consented water takes in New Zealand.
About three-quarters are for irrigation – most of the other
consents are for community water supplies and industry. About
one-third of all consented takes (and about one-third of the
total volume allocated by
Freshwater ecological monitoring state of the environment report - Taranaki Regional Council.
Freshwater ecological monitoring state of the environment report - Taranaki Regional Council.
other site, GND2252 (Waverly – Whenuakura
aquifer), was found to have experienced a slightly declining trend in water level over its recent data
record. In addition to these sites, there were others where statistically significant rising (4 sites) and
declining (2 sites) trends in water level were identified. None of these trends were however deemed
environmentally meaningful, given the extremely low rate of annual change (+/- <0.1%).
The slightly declining trend in water levels
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 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
Council for monitoring of groundwater abstraction was installed
in September 2014. The new system showed that the instantaneous volume limit was breached
frequently by small amounts, although the daily limit was met, with one exception. The Company
has applied for a higher instantaneous abstraction rate in the consent replacement process.
In September 2012, the Company commissioned a 20.7 ha extension of the irrigation area, and a
further extension of 6.0 ha became operational in January 2013.
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 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 IV.
For reference, in the 2021-2022 year, consent holders were found to achieve a high
included 24 inspections, 343 water samples collected for physico-chemical analysis, and four
bio-monitoring surveys of receiving waters. In addition, continuous monitoring of the
temperature of cooling water discharged and of the Inaha Stream was undertaken, and a staff
gauge rating was maintained for measurement of flow in the stream.
There was a fire at the inedibles plant on 12 January 2014, which affected the operation of the
plant and the monitoring undertaken for about 12 weeks.
The
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