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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
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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
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Executive summary
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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
The Consents and Regulatory Committee deals with resource consents, compliance monitoring and pollution incidents. Generally meets every six weeks.
Items of interest from today's meeting of the Taranaki Regional Council Policy and Planning Committee: Iwi testing the waters
Council officers are providing a number of iwi and hapū in the region with training and advice to allow them to monitor the health of waterways using a ‘Stream Health Monitoring and Assessment Kit’ (SHMAK) developed by NIWA, the Committee was told. An initial approach for assistance came from the region’s southernmost iwi, Ngaa Rauru Kiitahi, and others have since
urban, rural and conservation land. Taranaki Regional Council monitoring data shows intensive predator control may already be making a difference – rats and possums in urban New Plymouth are decreasing, while the trapping network in rural and urban areas is expanding rapidly, Mr MacLeod says. Monitoring, using rat footprint tracking and a possum bite-mark index, show catch rates have dropped; rats went from 33 per cent to 19 percent in the past year, while the urban New Plymouth possum index has
New trapping technology is helping the large-scale removal of stoats, ferrets and weasels in rural New Plymouth – the first step in a large scale rural operation that will be a New Zealand first. About 2100 self-resetting traps and wirelessly monitored traps, which send a notification to a mobile device when they’re activated, are being placed across 14,200 hectares of rural land between New Plymouth and Egmont National Park, as part of Towards Predator-Free Taranaki – the largest project of
identification and adaptations in addition to practicing good tikanga. More advanced quantitative surveys can be undertaken on request. Marine education resources can also be downloaded or ordered from the New Zealand Marine Studies Centre: https://www.otago.ac.nz/marine-studies/resources/index.html Other coastal activitiesThere are lots of other types of coastal monitoring and action projects that you and your students can get involved with. Get in touch to discuss options and find out how we can provide