Activity Group: Environmental Management Major Budgeted Capital Projects Standard for Assessing and Managing Contaminants in Soil, monitoring The following table outlines the major budgeted projects and areas of expenditure of winery waste discharges, monitoring of agricultural spray drift and proposed for this Activity over the next 10 years. Although these items are implementation of the National Policy Statement for Freshwater budgeted, in some cases further public consultation will be required with the Management. relevant community before the project is implemented. These projects are also Environmental information listed under the Capital Expenditure line of the Funding Impact Statement at the end of this Activity section. There is also an increasing expectation from government, the community and the regional sector that resource information will be readily available for national Major Capital Projects Inflated value environmental reporting and the community in an open digital format. Asset (Millions) Field $1.7 Water Quality equipment 2018-28 Telemetry field equipment. Diffuse pollution, sediment runoff and discharges to land as a consequence of Project 2019-22 Multi-beam seabed mappgpj $3.1 intensive urban and rural land use will remain as the main human induced threat to water quality in the District. Monitoring programmes focused on determining the Emerging Issues and Expected Changes effects of winery waste discharges and sediment run-off are immediate options to help us better understand and mitigate these effects. The implementation of Additional investment additional catchment based enhancement plans and options for a riparian The Marlborough Environment Plan has been notified and will set the future management strategy will involve collaborative action to help mitigate diffuse direction and resourcing for State of Environment (SoE) monitoring and resource pollution and sediment runoff. investigations in the District. Water Use Additionally the government is increasingly directing Council services through The extraction of fresh water for irrigation and consumptive use will require a legislative change consisting of a number of National Policy Statements and continuation of careful management to balance community aspirations for National Environmental standards. For example, the National Policy Statement for economic growth while ensuring environmental sustainability is not compromised. Freshwater Management is expected to impact on the levels of service for setting of catchment based limits, monitoring and contaminant accounting systems. Air Quality The Council will invest in the following projects. Agriculture spray drift and the effects on air quality in the District are little known. A monitoring programme to address cumulative effects will be a necessary step to A multi-beam survey of the entire seabed of Pelorus Sound/Te Hoiere will better understanding these complex issues. • be carried out as part of a co-funding partnership with Land Information New Zealand. This investment in understanding the different habitats and Soil Quality their values will enable the Council to improve management of marine Council has an obligation to ensure the most up to information exists on sites that ecosystems in this extensive area. are potentially contaminated, and these sites recorded as HAIL. A focused program systemically surveying sites and reviewing the level of risk will be carried • There will be progressive increases in the funding for the Council’s out. environmental science and monitoring activities over the next three years to implement the Proposed MEP as well as the range of National Biodiversity Environmental Policy Standards and Regulations. In particular, additional The community terrestrial biodiversity programme has an objective to halt the resources have been allocated for environmental monitoring, coastal monitoring and science programmes, biodiversity, riparian management, decline in biodiversity values. Resourcing has been allocated to address the Taylor River enhancement, implementation of the National Environmental protection of high value significant sites. The community also expects more 2018-2028 Long Term Plan Page 115