heavily fished.”
Kayaking and rafting
The Waiwhakaiho River is one of the five main whitewater kayaking rivers in Taranaki, along
with the Stony, Mangorei and Manganui Rivers and Kiri Stream. The Waiwhakaiho is navigable
from the National Park to the sea, and flow recommendations are for after rainfall at 20m3/s,
although it is possible to ‘scrape by with less’.
There is no advertised commercial rafting on the Waiwhakaiho River, but it is offered by
TOPEC as one of their adventure
after a substantial rainfall event in the
hinterland and coincided with the highest turbidity (120 NTU) recorded during the
survey period. It has been noted, during past survey periods, that the three-day post
rainfall sampling protocols followed by the SEM programme for the other (ringplain)
catchment sites are not necessarily appropriate for baseline assessments of
bacteriological water quality at this site near the mouth of this predominantly eastern
hill country catchment river as a result
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for refurbishment. The non-compliant discharge volumes were
attributed to recurrent periods of high rainfall which first occurred in the 2016-2017 monitoring period. Due
to this, all enforcement actions were outlined in the previous monitoring report. In summary, following two
14 day letters and a number of stakeholder meetings, STDC were required to provide a report on inflow and
infiltration and undertake additional shellfish monitoring. Further investigations found that the discharges
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Figure 3 Photograph of sampling location in relation to residential areas
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Figure 4 Coastal orientation of New Plymouth
1.1.3 Meteorology
Taranaki’s climate is determined by its westerly position, its mid latitude location,
and its topography. The region lies in the path of weather systems moving west over
the Tasman Sea. The region is generally sunny and windy, with moderate
temperatures and regular rainfall throughout the year. Westerly winds predominate
in
application depths greater
than soil water deficits, is likely to occur when irrigation is scheduled too early or
application depths are not matched to predetermined deficit levels. In some situations it
may also occur when irrigation precedes high rainfall events.
Poor application uniformity results in localised areas of high application depths, which
are more prone to pugging. Higher than acceptable levels of uniformity can be due to a
number of factors including: operating system outside
piezometers and total daily
rainfall values 9
List of photos
Photo 1 Brophy wetland area 4
Photo 2 Excavated outflow drain 5
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1. Introduction
1.1 Compliance monitoring programme reports and the Resource
Management Act 1991
1.1.1 Introduction
This report is the Annual Report for the period July 2012- June 2013 by the Taranaki
Regional Council (the Council) describing the monitoring programme associated
with the
Freshwater recreational bathing monitoring report - Taranaki Regional Council.