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Doc. No: 2747617
TARANAKI REGIONAL COUNCIL MONTHLY RAINFALL AND RIVER REPORT FOR March 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
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,
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TARANAKI REGIONAL COUNCIL MONTHLY RAINFALL AND RIVER REPORT FOR July 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 Egmont
1 Minimum requirement, 4 hectares per 100 cows, which is designed to ensure nitrogen in the discharge does not
exceed 200 kg/ha/year.
Note: Council expectation is that all consents issued will require an exclusive discharge to land and
full storage. Dual discharges may be allowed, if the dairy farm is in a high rainfall area and provision
of adequate storage is impractical. The discharge of treated farm dairy effluent to surface water may
be authorised as a contingency, when land
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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
pump stations (all due to high rainfall and power outages during Cyclone Dovi in
February 2022), and a further 14 reticulation overflows (the majority of which were due to high rainfall or
blockages due to fat and/or wet wipes). This total of 23 unauthorised incidents is similar to the previous two
monitoring periods.
During the year, NPDC demonstrated an overall high level of environmental and administrative compliance
and performance with the resource consents related to NPWWTP
downstream of ‘irrigation’ tributary INH000450
Inaha Stream, State Highway 45 INH000470
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Figure 1 Wastewater irrigation areas, surface water monitoring and point source discharge locations in the Inaha Stream
and tributaries
Stormwater generated in the main yard, garage and raw material reception areas is diverted to a three-
stage stormwater treatment system (near B, Figure 1). The first flush of a rainfall event is discharged to Pond
1 and after that is
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
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
higher
than average rainfall the minimum separation distance between burial sites and the water table was not met
in some areas of the Cemetery.
During the year, NPDC demonstrated a good level of environmental and high level of administrative
performance with the resource consents
For reference, in the 2020-2021 year, consent holders were found to achieve a high level of environmental
performance and compliance for 86% of the consents monitored through the Taranaki tailored monitoring