of Waitara East School on their epic
Taranaki Mounga Field Trip!
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8 July was wet, wet, wet! Dawson Falls had a whopping
1,418mm of rain in July…. (map)
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9 CONNECTOR SERVICE ALERT - Tuesday 2nd August 2022
OFF-PEAK SERVICES CANCELLED
Waka Kotahi will be completing high priority asphalt repairs
at Tariki on TUESDAY 2nd August.
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Executive, Audit & Risk Committee - Financial and
Policy and Planning Committee Agenda 4 February 2025
for municipal and rural water supply.
Did you ever wonder why many rivers have
water in them when it hasn’t rained for days or
weeks, there’s no snow melting, and the
ground is dry? The rivers are being filled up by
water coming from out of the ground in the
form of springs and seepages which brings us
on to the topic of groundwater.
Groundwater facts
Groundwater is water which occurs in
formations below the earth’s surface. In
Taranaki we use 44,022m3 per day but
recharge
CDEM Joint Committee March 2024
were discharged to the site.
1.4.4 Chemical sampling
Patea Beach is an elevated site which for most of the time is dry. Rain that does fall on
the site drains away at a very rapid rate. The site does not suffer from flooding from
rain or tidal action, due to its elevation. Monitoring over the past three years noted no
discharge of leachate or liquids from the base of the dune as a result of the discharge.
Therefore, no water quality samples were programmed or collected at the site
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
typical example.
Water Rain: - raindrops falling on bare earth wash the soil away. The rain soaks into
the soil making it heavier and causing it to sometimes slip away.
Sea: -waves crash against the coast, grinding rocks into sand and cutting back
the edge of the coast. Coastal drift carries the sand along the coast to calmer
water where it builds beaches.
Rivers: - the force of the flow cuts away at the banks of the river causing them
to become undercut and fall
first newsletter
of 2022.
We hope everyone has been able to relax
and enjoy the wonderful summer
weather we have been having although
the rain that is falling this weekend is
very welcome from a gardening point
of view. Here in New Plymouth, albeit
the sunniest city in New Zealand, rain
fell on 4 days in January giving a total of
12.5ml. Yesterday alone we had 180ml,
twice the normal rainfall for February.
Most of you will have received the 2022
Calendar of Events with the January
from neighbours.
It is acknowledged that other site-specific
considerations will also have to apply, such as:
1. the avoidance of conflict between air discharge
points and neighbouring dwellings
2. land contours
3. orientation to the sun.
(f) Discharge point design
Dispersion of discharges is enhanced by:-
increasing the height of discharge points;
avoiding the use of conical rain shields over
discharge stacks;
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TARANAKI REGIONAL COUNCIL MONTHLY RAINFALL AND RIVER REPORT FOR November 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