flank, causing fires in the native bush which swept 3km northwards across the western
slopes of the Pouakai Range (Druce, 1970, cited in Neall, 2003). 150 years later a pumice
lapilli fall and pyroclastic flows covered Maori villages, inferred from the discovery of Maori
ovens (umu) beneath the deposits. In 1755 A.D. small hot avalanches occurred from
eruptions at Taranaki. Recent evidence from Platz (2007) suggests that the most recent
eruption was between 1839 and 1866 A.D., and potentially in
January was warmer than usual while rainfall for the month was just slightly above normal – but with some big differences across the region. Waitotara at Ngutuwera had 53% less rain than usual while Uruti at Kaka Rd had 39% more. The average rainfall for the region was 108.4mm, 2% more than usual. The average air temperature for the region (excluding Te Maunga sites) was 18.2°C, which is 0.6°C warmer than long-term January averages. The highest temperature was 30.3°C at Waitotara at Hawken Rd.
relation to best practice irrigation onto high and low risk soils.
1.6 Application Depth
The volume of water applied during irrigation is referred to as the application depth. Farmers will make
reference to the amount of rain in their rain gauge in mm. For example, there was 4 mm of rainfall
yesterday. This relates to the formula 1mm of rain falling on 1 ha equals 10,000 litres. Using the example of
4mm of rainfall, this would equate to 40,000 litres of rain falling on each ha of land.
CDEM Joint Committee March 2024
After falling in love with the lathe he bought for his wife more than 40 years ago, Stratford woodworker Tony Waterson has never looked back. Waterson joins New Zealand’s finest woodcrafters taking part in this weekend’s Taranaki Woodcraft Festival at Pukeiti. The competition organised by the Stratford Woodturners Club & Taranaki Woodworkers Guild is the only one of its kind in New Zealand this year. Waterson has been chipping away at his sculptures for this year's competition and says coming
The year began with Taranaki's second driest January ever, with none of our monitored sites getting even a third of their normal rainfall for the month. Totals ranged from 8% to 29% of normal, with an average of 17%, and our monitored sites recorded rain only on three to seven days during the month. Stratford recorded just 13.5mm, its lowest January total since records began in 1998. Our monitored sites on Taranaki Maunga recorded 17% to 23% of their normal Janary rainfall, with rain on five to
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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
October was a relatively dry month for most of Taranaki with 115mm of rainfall – 30% less than usual. There was 48% less rain than normal at Brooklands Zoo in New Plymouth and the site also had the highest air temperature for the month at 25.6°C. Year to date rainfall ranges from 13% less rainfall at Uruti at Kaka Rd, and 10% more rainfall at Omaru at Charlies, with an average of 3% less than normal. Mean river flows for October were 28.3% lower than typical values while mean river
Policy and Planning Committee Agenda 4 February 2025
Got a special block of bush or wetland area on your land? It might fall into our Key Native Ecosystem (KNE) programme and qualify for a free Biodiversity Plan. Protecting native habitats relies on effective planning to ensure all aspects of management are considered. For example it's no good killing the predators if meanwhile old man's beard is smothering the canopy. To help owners protect KNEs on their land, the Council prepares free Biodiversity Plans for KNEs that fall either wholly or