‘Drain Decision’. Winning a Council prize was not a new experience for Shan as he received an award last year. Congratulations to all three winners. Science and Technology Fair awards page SITE OCTOBER 2011 ISSUE NO.59 Altitude and rainfall In most cases there is a direct link between rainfall figures and altitude. Below are some figures for both. Multi choice mountain quiz Te Maunga the mountain Mt Taranaki rises to 2,518 metres making it the North Island’s
Council’s hydrological monitoring team, as the weather conditions meant the demand for irrigation was high, with irrigation starting as early as the middle of October. The Council carried out compliance monitoring inspections at 68 sites during the 2015-2016 irrigation season. The inspections included visual checks of the intake structures, screens, staff gauges, fencing around the pump sheds, downloading of data and stream gaugings. For the summer irrigation period, the rainfall recorded at
increasing, and measures of water quality are trending in the right direction. The region is not facing an unmanaged crisis in water quality, quite the opposite situation is evident. 22) Over 300 rivers and streams radiate from Mount Taranaki across the ring plain. These are generally short, narrow, incised, cool, and fast flowing, and water leaving the Egmont National Park has usually reached the sea within 24 hours. High rainfall on the mountain generally means that most ring plain
Prolonged and/or heavy rainfall will often result in high levels of enterococci in the samples as these are washed down flooded streams and rivers from farmland. This can be exacerbated by a low tide where a sea sample collected from a site near a stream mouth may contain a high proportion of freshwater. Water quality at Middleton Bay Contact recreational bacteriological water quality at Middleton Bay was monitored by the Council on 22 separate occasions between early November 2023 and late
occur in heavy rainfall events. These flood flows spill overland but generally rejoin the main channels before they enter the urban area. These overland flows will generally be caught by the diversion channels which cut across the lay of land. 1.9 Climate Because of its exposure to disturbed weather systems from the Tasman Sea, the Taranaki region is often quite windy, but has few climate extremes. The most settled weather occurs during summer and early autumn. The mountain and
in this high rainfall area is being investigated. The requirement to discharge to land, in most cases, addresses cultural and water quality concerns. Recommended That the Taranaki Regional Council: a) receives this memorandum b) agrees that from December 2022 consent holders applying for a consent renewal will be required to immediately start discharging to land once their consent has been issued c) agrees that those consent holders whose consents are about to expire be
investigations, and interventions summary table 20 Table 10 Summary of performance for consent 5079-2 23 Table 11 Summary of performance for consent 7520-1 24 Table 12 Evaluation of environmental performance over time 25 List of figures Figure 1 Configuration of the HWWTP (adapted from NIWA, 2012) 4 Figure 2 Daily hours where DO is greater than 0 g/m3 in Pond 1 and 2 8 Figure 3 Daily discharge volumes (m3/day) from the HWWTP and daily rainfall data (mm) from a Council rainfall …
and detaching or detached mats accumulating on the river’s edge triggered the ‘Alert’ level at the same four sites (Waingongoro River at Ohawe, Kaupokonui River at the mouth, and Waiwhakaiho River at the last riffle and at Merrilands Domain) on a total of 8 surveys. Levels of cyanobacteria were higher than in the previous season; and lower than the preceding three seasons, probably a reflection of the relative amounts of rainfall causing freshes that scour streambeds of
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caddisflies). The MCI index (widely used to monitor macroinvertebrates in streams) is high (typically >100) in streams dominated by mayflies, stoneflies and caddisflies and low (typically <80) in streams dominated by worms, snails and chironimids. In Taranaki, nutrients are not such a problem because of fast flowing and relatively short rivers and streams. High rainfall leads to frequent flushing events in rivers and streams that provide natural scouring. Even in summer, most Taranaki rivers do