Climate studies commissioned by the Council are particularly focused on potential risks and hazards. Central Government co-investment in flood protection This report, published in August 2019 for regional councils and Local Government New Zealand, sets out a case for central government co-investmentment in river management and flood protection schemes. The report is subtitled 'Critical Adaptation to Climate Change for a More Resilient New Zealand'. Central Government Co-investment in River
A vandalism attack on a remote automated monitoring station left communities and livelihoods vulnerable to unexpected flooding, the Taranaki Regional Council says. Council hydrology officers discovered the damage while checking the network of monitoring stations in the upper Waitōtara Valley catchment. Temporary repairs were made to get the station back online but full repairs will not be finished for another two weeks. The stations generate automated phone alerts to locals when rivers reach
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Land Management Officer – Hill Country
Purpose | Te arotahi mātua
The Land Management Officer (Hill Country) is responsible for working collaboratively and
cohesively within the Land Management team to implement the Taranaki Regional Council’s policy
in respect of soil and water conservation and sustainable land and water use. The Land
Management Officer (Hill Country) promotes the concepts of the Council’s sustainable land
management programmes with Taranaki’s hill country
Clean, healthy water is the region’s most precious resource, and the Council’s programmes and rules aim to help the community maintain and improve water quality. Most notably, the region’s world-scale Riparian Management Programme has already seen thousands of kilometres of streambanks fenced and millions of native plants go into the ground on the Taranaki ring plain. The water-quality benefits of this work are well established scientifically. Other measures to protect and enhance water quality
Items of interest from today's Consents & Regulatory and Policy & Planning Committee meetings: Opunake Hydroelectric Power Scheme gets go-aheadThe Consents & Regulatory Committee has granted seven resource consents to Opunake Power Limited, enabling it to restart operations at its small hydroelectric scheme. The applications were for the damming of the Waiaua River and the taking of water to fill Lake Opunake for the purpose of power generation. The water is then discharged onto Opunake Beach.
Irrigation Blocks
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Farm Environmental
Management Plan
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Document No:RU-650-0X00-A
Revision No:1.5
Date:12-6-2020
Controller: C Kay
4.0 Geology and Topography
The topography of the land ranges from steep bush and regenerating bush land to moderately steep
to rolling grazing land to flat river valleys used for grazing and/or irrigation of the treated leachate and
stormwater runoff from the composting operation.
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After a very wet start to 2023, year to date rainfall for Taranaki is now about average. Dry July continued into August with an average of 145.4mm of rain, 17% less than a typical amount for the month. This ranged from 44% less rainfall at Mangorei Upper at Forest Hill to 2% more rainfall at Waitotara at Rimunui Station than usual. Mean river flows for August were 29.6% lower than typical values while mean river (non-mountain) water temperatures were 9.4°C, an average of 1°C cooler than
relating to nutrients, phytoplankton and ammonia. The report notes that reducing sediment and run-off is the key to improvements, and a great deal of riparian protection work has been done upstream in the Pātea River and Mangaehu River catchments. In the upstream Pātea catchment, 1008km of riverbank and streambank now has adequate riparian protection as the result of individual property plans being implemented under the Council’s Riparian Management Programme. The report also notes that hornwort has
The proposed Natural Resources Plan for the Taranaki replaces and integrates the Regional Policy Statement and three regional plans for managing soil, discharges to land, freshwater and air. Overview Our environment including its natural and physical resources are precious and need to be carefully managed. The Council’s mission is to promote the sustainable use, development and protection of our natural and physical resources and to help us achieve that we’re developing the Natural Resources