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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
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
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
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
amend the
current consent. The site has not been used in recent years.
The discharge site is approximately 120 m long and 25 m wide, and is shown in Figure 2.
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.
1 The Council has used these compliance grading
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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
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;
There were plenty of April showers last month with nearly 775mm of rain at the North Egmont Visitors Centre and 574.5mm at Dawson Falls. Rainfall was on average 101.8% of the long-term average, and ranged from 65% at Taungatara at Eltham Rd and Oeo u/s Awatuna Wetland, to 192% at Matarawa at Matarawa Valley. Year to date rainfall is sitting between 103% (Mangati at SH3) and 206% (Matarawa at Matarawa Valley) with an average of 139.7% of normal. Mean river flows were 133.8% of typical values,
Taranaki By-Products Air and Water Annual Report 2023-2024