Taranaki residents are being urged to be cautious around rivers, with potentially toxic cyanobacteria detected earlier in the season than usual. Taranaki Regional Council has found exposed mats of cyanobacteria in four rivers - the Manganui, Waingongoro, Kaupokonui and Waiwhakaiho rivers - raising health concerns for both swimmers and pets. Cyanobacteria, also known as blue-green algae, is a naturally occurring algae that often grows in rivers on rocks as thick brown or black mats. It has the
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Recommendations
That Executive, Audit and Risk Committee of the Taranaki Regional Council:
a) takes as read and confirms the minutes and resolutions of the Executive, Audit and Risk
Committee held in the Taranaki Regional Council Chambers, 47 Cloten road, Stratford
on Monday 29 March 2020 at 10am
b) notes the recommendations therein were adopted by the Taranaki Regional Council on
Tuesday 6 April 2021.
Matters arising
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Last year ended with December having 34% less rain than usual and the first month of 2025 mirrored that exactly with 34% less rainfall across the region in January. This was particularly the case in South Taranaki with the monitoring station at Kaupokonui at Glenn Rd recording 59% less than usual. The district also saw the highest soil temperature with 28.1°C at Waitōtara at Rimunui Station on 22 January. Mean river flows for January were 40.1% lower than typical values, low flows were 11.6%
New regulations to protect wetlands were introduced in the National Environmental Standards for Freshwater 2020 (NES-F) as part of the Government’s Essential Freshwater reforms. For decades, protecting wetlands’ water quality and biodiversity values has been a priority for the Council and we have worked with Taranaki landowners to protect and enhance the region’s precious wetlands through our riparian and biodiversity programmes. Wetlands – swamps, marshes, bogs and the like – are the meeting
People heading out to swimming spots across Taranaki this summer are being encouraged to wait a few days after heavy rain before diving in. Taranaki Regional Council’s summer “Can I Swim Here?" monitoring programme starts this week, running through until the end of March 2024. Every Tuesday staff will take water samples at 41 popular swimming spots at lakes, rivers and beaches across the region. Results take two days to come back from the lab, and are posted on the Land, Air, Water Aotearoa
The steps to completing an application form are:
Completes Sections A and B of the application form.
Completes Section C - medical eligibility assessment.
Submits the completed application form to the Taranaki
Regional Council for approval and registration of the client.
In the case where a client is declined they will be contacted
by the Council with an explanation.
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c. It must be the impairment that prevents
and effective management of the Council’s functions and Taranaki’s natural and physical resources.
COMMENTARY/HIGHLIGHTS
Continued to make progress on the review of the Regional Freshwater and Land plan. The Council decided to delay the release of a
Proposed Freshwater and Land Plan to allow further work to be undertaken. In the interim, the Requirements for Good Farm
Management in Taranaki document has been completed and distributed to farmers and other key stakeholders. Feedback
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SEPTEMBER 2009
Inventory of solid wastes management
and disposal in Taranaki
Carried out by the Taranaki Regional Council on behalf
of the Regional Solid Waste Working Party
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Inventory of solid wastes
management and disposal
in Taranaki
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September 2009
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Executive summary
The Regional
been made and grow awareness of the job left ahead and how everyone can contribute.” The exhibition includes a variety of mediums, with artists drawing on their personal connection to the environment and nature. Taranaki Kiwi Trust has commissioned a piece by Geoff Noble, with profits from the sale going towards protecting kiwi in Taranaki. Geoff has created a reproduction of a Western Brown Kiwi and the complex colours of their feathers and native Taranaki bush. Taranaki Regional Council Regional
Taranaki Regional Council:
a) takes as read and confirms the minutes and resolutions of the Triennial meeting of
the Taranaki Regional Council held in the Taranaki Regional Council chambers, 47
Cloten Road, Stratford on Wednesday 26 October November 2022 at 1pm.
Littlewood/Hughes
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2. Confirmation of Minutes Ordinary Meeting 8 November 2022
Resolved
That the Taranaki Regional Council:
a) takes as read and confirms the minutes and resolutions of the