Where there’s a Will, there’s a way to make Yarrow Stadium’s new turf pitch perfect. Will Bowden, of New Zealand Turf Management Solutions (NZTMS), is bringing his expertise as a grass guru to work alongside Yarrow Stadium contractor FieldTurfNZ and create tougher hybrid turf surface that will last longer and be friendlier on the environment. “It’s such an exciting project to create a new pitch on what will be one of the country’s top regional venues and I feel privileged to be a part of this
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Dan Quinn has got the patience of a saint as he does holey work at Yarrow Stadium. Dan and the crew from FieldturfNZ are spending long days stitching fibre into the main pitch as part of work installing international-quality hybrid turf ahead of kick-off on 3 September when the Yarrows Taranaki Bulls play Waikato in the Bunnings NPC. Two GrassMaster machines will take around 25 days to punch 1,000 rolls of artificial fibre – made up of 5km of fibre for every roll – into thousands of minute
Dairy category winners in the 2022 Taranaki Regional Council Environmental Awards. Category sponsor: Fonterra Tony and Lorraine Lash - for environmental stewardship and improving ecosystem health through riparian fencing and planting and efforts to encourage biodiversity. Tony and Lorraine Lash are leading by example on their Stratford dairy farm with 100% of their farm’s riparian margins now fenced and planted. Their riparian journey began more than 20 years ago and since then they have put in
Community category winners in the 2022 Taranaki Regional Council Environmental Awards. Category Sponsor: Methanex Sustainable Taranaki - for outstanding contribution to promoting sustainability in Taranaki and educating and encouraging communities and individuals to make lifestyle changes which benefit the natural environment. Sustainable Taranaki’s programmes reflect its mission of inspiring people to play their part in handing a vibrant environment to the next generation. Recognising people
industrial drain which joins the stream at the main highway.
Receiving water monitoring results for the year were generally in line with historical ranges. However, as
occasionally noted in recent years, the water tends to be of a lesser quality mid-catchment due to the
increase or decrease of some parameters (suspended solids, biological oxygen demand, nitrate, ammoniacal
nitrogen, dissolved oxygen).
During the period under review, the instream dissolved zinc and copper concentrations met the
Factory and South Taranaki District Council Hawera Landfill, are included in other monitoring
programmes carried out by the Council.
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1.1.3 The Resource Management Act 1991 and monitoring
The RMA primarily addresses environmental ‘effects’ which are defined as positive or adverse, temporary or
permanent, past, present or future, or cumulative. Effects may arise in relation to:
a. the neighbourhood or the wider community around an activity, and may include
Business category winners in the 2022 Taranaki Regional Council Environmental Awards. Category sponsor: Daily News Todd Energy - for a significant contribution to the safeguarding and protection of the Kapuni Awa. After major flooding on the Kapuni Awa (river) in South Taranaki in July 2021, Taranaki energy company Todd Energy invested in a 100m-long new rock wall. Around 1500m3 of land within the Nova Generation Solar Farm site was washed away during the major weather event, with sediment
stream found that although there were measurable changes in some parameters, most of
these would have resulted in only minor transient effects at most. In terms of guidelines, there was no
exceedances of guidelines for pH, ammoniacal nitrogen, or biochemical oxygen demand. Dissolved copper
results were below the USEPA acute guideline. Dissolved zinc concentrations were above the USEPA acute
guideline in most of the discharge and stream samples.
Overall, most consented discharges in the