page Freshwater Macroinvertebrate Fauna Biological Monitoring Programme Annual State of the Environment Monitoring Report 2016-2017 Technical Report 2017-88 (and Report DS079) Taranaki Regional Council ISSN: 1178-1467 (Online) Private Bag 713 Document: 2000629 (Word) STRATFORD Document: 2045637 (Pdf) June 2018 page page Executive summary Section 35 of the Resource
school are involved with Towards Predator-Free Taranaki, a BioBlitz can be incorporated into your project as a powerful monitoring tool. Set up predator monitoring as part of your BioBlitz using tracking tunnels, chew cards and wax tags. Which predators are present within the BioBlitz area? What traps can be used to safely remove these pest species? We can provide monitoring equipment and help you and your students to set up traps Now it's your turn!With all of these examples it’s worthwhile running
monitoring showed that the levels of BOD, unionised ammonia and ammoniacal nitrogen were elevated in relation to the landfill tributary, which may have been as a result to the high rainfall and agricultural activities around the headwaters of the roadside tributary. During the year under review, the water quality results from the Tawhiti Stream sites show that the inflow from the roadside tributary is not having a significant effect on the water quality in the Tawhiti Stream at the consent
Items of interest from this week’s meetings of the Council’s two key committees, Consents & Regulatory, and Policy & Planning: The air remains clearThe latest four years of monitoring confirms that Taranaki has good to excellent air quality, with the major inhalable contaminant being wind-blown sea salt. A report to the Policy and Planning Committee set out findings of a more stringent monitoring programme that began in 2016, with detection equipment calibrated for PM2.5 (airborne particles
discharging at the time of inspection. A sample was obtained from the second skimmer pit. 22 April 2013 Inspection was conducted during a rainfall event. Skimmer pits and ring drains appeared to be working well, however the far northern corner of the site needed to be monitored to ensure no pooling was occurring within the ring drain. The site in general appeared to be clean and tidy with areas about the rig well bunded. The flare pit was beginning to fill with water, site staff were advised
The Consents and Regulatory Committee deals with resource consents, compliance monitoring and pollution incidents. Generally meets every six weeks.
sustainability. PCE report: Farms, Forests and Fossil Fuels Good marks for most consent holdersConsent compliance for the 2017/2018 year has now been fully reported, with the Consents & Regulatory Committee receiving the final nine of 97 compliance monitoring reports. The reports vary from individual sites, most of them involving multiple consents, to combined reports covering consents issued in particular catchments or activity categories. The latter cover multiple consent holders, most of them holding more
access to the local stormwater either through direct discharge or by being washed off the site by rainfall or by poor forecourt cleaning practices. Pollution minimisation The Taranaki Regional Council recommends the following service station requirements as best management practices. Check this information when operating your service station and when establishing or upgrading daily site operational procedures. If all of the items on the list are fully addressed then the potential for
info@trc.govt.nz. Remote or digital meetings can be arranged if required. Field work under Level 3 will include a limited number of farm visits, environmental monitoring, consent compliance inspections, some Towards Predator-Free Taranaki activities and other predator and pest-plant monitoring and control activities. Environmental incidents will continue to be investigated, as they have been during Level 4. To report pollution or any other environmental incident, call 0800 736 222. The line is open 24/7.
page Mangati Catchment Joint Monitoring Programme Annual Report 2016-2017 Technical Report 2017-14 Taranaki Regional Council ISSN: 1178-1467 (Online) Private Bag 713 Document: 1849256 (Word) STRATFORD Document: 1998106 (Pdf) March 2018 page page Executive summary This report is the Annual Report for the period July 2016 to June 2017 by