study the coast in more
detail. It is available online or you can obtain
a copy from Kevin if that is easier.
The Coast
A look at the Dawson Falls Visitor Centre, an opportunity to learn more about mountain safety, a
chance to identify the invertebrates in a mountain stream, a bush walk, a close-up view of Dawson
Falls, a chance to see what Konini Lodge has to offer and a big lunch were features of the latest
teachers’ workshop held in November. Ten teachers from four schools
occasions during 2019-2020
Date Lake level
(m asl) Weather
Wind Lake appearance
L2 L3 L2 L3
17 October
2019 75.7 Broken cloud,
fine Light NW Moderate
NW
Turbid, brown;
surface rippled
Slightly turbid,
dark green;
surface rippled
19 February
2020 77.3
Overcast,
drizzle; heavy
rain preceding
Calm Calm Clear, dark green;
surface flat
Clear, dark
green; surface
rippled
19 March
2020 76.8 Overcast, light
rain
Light NW
breeze Calm …
easily see
their prey.
Activity
Think about the things that could make water more turbid eg rain washing over
muddy ground with no plants. Design and make your own turbidity device by
filling a glass jar with pond water and see if you can easily see through it.
Do this again by stirring up the water from the bottom of the pond and then noting
the difference.
page
Wetlands
Taranaki Regional Council
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Activity 8: Pond life
Invertebrates are
Please try to avoid sampling in the pouring rain so that the risk of contamination is
minimised.
4. Please try to keep the bottles provided clean, and rinse them 3 times with the
sample water before collecting the sample.
If you have any questions about sampling or if the procedures conflict with your
current sampling protocols, please contact me and we can try to resolve the issues as
quickly as possible.
Thanks for participating in the programme; it could not exist without your
Ordinary Council Agenda June 2024
Council staff
familiar with the plan to examine the clarity of the policies and the frequency that the various
policies had been considered in consent officer’s reports (as an indication of how frequently those
policies were used in decision making).
Efficiency is a measure of the benefit of a policy relative to its cost. The efficiency of the RCP was
examined by looking at costs that fall on the regional council (plan administration costs and
ongoing policy development or state of environment
unless the activity is
expressly allowed for by a resource consent or a rule in a regional plan, or it falls within some particular
categories set out in Section 14. Permits authorising the abstraction of water are issued by the Council under
Section 87(d) of the RMA.
Water discharge permits
Section 15(1)(a) of the RMA stipulates that no person may discharge any contaminant into water, unless the
activity is expressly allowed for by a resource consent or a rule in a regional plan, or by
extended-duration
nuisance blooms reflecting high nutrient
enrichment and/or significant alteration
of the natural flow regime or habitat.
* The productive class is defined by River Environment Classification (REC) types, with a combination of dry climate categories
and soft-sedimentary, volcanic acidic and volcanic basic geology. All sites that do not fall in these categories are in the default
class.
1.3 Periphyton
Periphyton is the ‘slime’ and algae found on the beds of lakes and rivers. This
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