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Doc. No: 2765952
TARANAKI REGIONAL COUNCIL MONTHLY RAINFALL AND RIVER REPORT FOR April 2021
Provisional Data Only
Note: some sites record a number of parameters
Table 1: Rainfall at 27 sites throughout the region
Station Sub-region
Monthly Year to Date
Records Began Number of rain
days (>0.5mm)
Total Monthly
Rainfall (mm)
% of Monthly
Normal (%)
Total to date
(mm)
% of Normal for
year to date
% of average full
calendar year
Nth
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Contents
Executive Summary iv
1. Introduction 1
2. Present Climate 3
2.1 Taranaki regional environment 3
2.2 Climate of Taranaki region 4
2.3 Storms and high intensity rainfall 6
2.3.1 Methods 6
2.3.2 Observed trends in daily extremes 8
2.4 High winds and tornadoes 13
2.4.1 Winds 13
2.4.2 Extreme winds 15
rainfall events and display a greater range of seasonal water level variation than
the region’s deeper aquifers. In general, groundwater levels across the region appear
relatively stable; however five sites are displaying statistically significant trends in water
level change. Three of these sites display positive trends, meaning water levels are
increasing at these sites. The remaining two sites, GND0508 (Taranaki volcanics aquifer) and
GND0708 (Whenuakura aquifer) display negative trends,
2020) 9
Figure 4 Observed groundwater levels GND2102 and rainfall (July 2019-June 2020) 10
Figure 5 Observed groundwater levels GND2102 and abstraction (July 2019-June 2020) 11
Figure 6 Observed groundwater levels GND2103 and rainfall (July 2019-June 2020) 11
Figure 7 Observed groundwater levels GND2103 and abstraction (July 2019-June 2020) 12
Figure 8 Observed groundwater levels GND2119 and rainfall (July 2019-June 2020) 12
Figure 9 Observed groundwater levels GND2119 and …
allocated across FMU-A and FMU-B. All other aquifers
have insignificant volumes of water allocated (≤1 % of estimated sustainable yield). It is not foreseen that
there will be any increases in groundwater demand in the short to medium-term that would be sufficient
to place groundwater resources under any significant allocation pressure.
As would be expected, monitored groundwater sites display fluctuations in water level as a result of
seasonal variations in rainfall recharge. The
excess of water may enter the
system during heavy or sustained rainfall, or if rainfall occurs when the plant is not operating. This excess is
discharged via a sand filter prior to entering the NPDC stormwater system, which discharges to the
Mangaone Stream immediately upstream of State Highway 3.
Allied Concrete holds water discharge permit 4539-2 to cover the discharge of stormwater and treated
wastewater from truck washing at a concrete batching plant into the Mangaone Stream in the
other than in exceptional circumstances, is
workable and can be implemented in the majority (but not all) cases with moderate ease
and minimal cost in respect of being able to utilise existing pond storage systems.
• Those farms with high rainfall and large catchment areas and or high risk soils will struggle
to implement a solely land based effluent irrigation system and in some cases will never be
able to meet the requirements of land only application
• A universal
industries 2021-2022 compliance monitoring sampling sites
The first of two dedicated stormwater sampling surveys scheduled for 2021-2022 was carried out between
07:30 and 11:00 on 30 November 2021. The survey was preceded by moderate rainfall overnight (23.2 mm)
recorded between 02:00 and 07:00 at Brooklands Zoo rain gauge. Light rain fell intermittently from the
morning to the early afternoon. There had been very little rainfall for 12 days preceding this survey. Samples
collected were also
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Document Number: 1551853
Taranaki June 2015 Flood Event
Taranaki Regional Council
Private Bag 713
STRATFORD
June 2016
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Summary
The key points to be taken from the Taranaki June 2015 Flood Event are:
A high intensity rainfall event occurred between the 19-20 June and was concentrated
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