Consultant Publications

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Agresearch

• Assessment of altered steel melter slag and P-socks to remove phosphorus from streamflow and runoff from lanes (300 KB, pdf), $12
• Assessment of a novel technigue to remove phosphorus from streamflow (296 KB, pdf), $12
• Land use impacts on nitrogen and phosphorus loss... (348 KB, pdf), $12
• The efficacy of strategies to mitigate the loss of phosphorus from pastoral land use in the catchment of Lake Rotorua (653KB, pdf) $10

Analytical & Environmental

• Locally available adsorbing materials, sediment sealing and flocculants for chemical remediation of lake and stream water (880 KB, pdf), $12
• Summary Report on Possible Dredging of Lakes in the Rotorua District (651 KB, pdf), $15

Aqualinc

• Water use and availability assessment for the western Bay of Plenty (1 MB, pdf), $27

ASR Marine

• Bay of Plenty Biological survey: AMAs, (1.9 MB, pdf), $12
• Bayof Plenty sediment characteristics: AMAs, (2.7 MB, pdf), $15
• Current and temperature measurements: AMAs, $15
• Bay of Plenty shelf water properties data report 2003/04: AMAs, $12
• Bay of Plenty Current and Temperature Measurements: Aquaculture Management Areas (2.7 MB, pdf), $12
• Bay of Plenty Primary Production Modelling: Influence of Climatic Variation and Change (2.3 MB, pdf), $15
• Bay of Plenty Primary Production Modelling: Aquaculture Management Areas (764 KB, pdf), $15

B Robson

• Review of the Bay of Plenty Policy and Plans, to Assess Impediments to the Development of Renewable Energy Resources (202 KB, pdf), $12

Beca

• Intervention Packages for Lake Rotorua, 2011
• Air Permit Technical Review on the Carter Holt Harvey Tasman Kraft Pulp Mill (711 KB pdf), $12
• Scoping report for a regional cycling and walking strategy (581 KB, pdf), $10

Bioresearches

• Best Management Practices for On-Site Wastewater Systems (217 KB, pdf), $10
• Estimate of the Geothermal Nutrient Inputs to Twelve Rotorua Lakes (4.4 MB, pdf), $12
• First Order Estimation of the Nutrient and Bacterial Input from Aquatic Birds to Twelve Rotorua Lakes (505 KB, pdf) $15

BOC Ltd

• Rejuvenating Lake Rotoiti (1.7 MB, pdf) $15

Boffa Miskell

• Coast Care Programme: Independent Review (7.2 MB, pdf), $15 NOTE: LARGE FILE
• Otamarakau-Matata Coastal Area Management Strategy (4.98 MB, pdf) N/C
• Outstanding Natural Features and Landscapes Bay of Plenty Coastal Environment - Vol. 1 (3.1 MB, pdf), $30
• Outstanding Natural Features and Landscapes Bay of Plenty Coastal Environment - Vol. 2 - These are too large to place on our website. Please contact us for a copy.
• Outstanding Natural Features and Landscapes Review Bay of Plenty region: landscape indicators report (112 KB, pdf), N/C
• Outstanding Natural Features and Landscapes Review Bay of Plenty region: assessment report (747 KB, pdf), N/C
• Outstanding Natural Features and Landscapes Review Bay of Plenty region: Appendix 4 Maps, N/C
• Outstanding Natural Features and Landscapes Review in inland Bay of Plenty (2.3 MB, pdf), $30

Cawthron

• Cyanobacterial Biovolumes for the Rotorua Lakes (2.4 MB, pdf), $10

Damwatch

• Review of the Use of Seepage Collars in Small Dams (762 KB pdf), $12

Deloitte

• Environment Bay of Plenty Rivers and Drainage Scheme Review 2009 (272 KB, pdf) N/C
• Environment Bay of Plenty Rivers and Drainage Scheme Review 2009 Summary (150 KB, pdf) N/C

DHI Water & Environment Ltd

• Kaituna River to Maketu Estuary Re-Diversion: Model calibration and inital hydrodynamic impact assessment (15 MB, pdf), $15 NOTE: VERY LARGE FILE
• Lower Kaituna River-Maketu Estuary Initial Water Quality Modelling (5.03 MB, pdf) NOTE: TOO LARGE TO DOWNLOAD

Earthwise Consulting

• Biotic Effects of Climate Change in the Bay of Plenty (2.7 MB, pdf) $12

Eco Nomos Ltd

• Waihi and Pukehina Beaches: Assessment of Storm Cut Dune Erosion (3.2 MB, pdf) $20
• Climate Change Office Report (668 KB pdf), N/C

Endpoint

• Rotorua Airshed Modelling Investigation Final Report (4.2 MB pdf), N/C

ESR

• Abbreviated Assessment of Human Health Impact from Whakatane Old Sawmill Site (476 KB pdf), $12

Forest Research

• Assessment of the Performance of nutrient reduction treatments... (1.5 MB pdf), $15

FWIF (First Words in Fauna)

• Ohope Scenic Reserve: Small Bird Monitoring (800 KB, pdf) N/C

GNS-IGNS

• Chemistry of the Rotorua Geothermal Field Part 1: Natural Geothermal Features (1.1 MB, pdf), $15
• Chemistry of the Rotorua Geothermal Field Part 2: Discharging Wells (698 KB, pdf), $15
• Chemistry of the Rotorua Geothermal Field Part 3: Hydrology (600 KB, pdf), $15
• Earthquake Hazards of the Bay of Plenty Region - Update to 1999 (2.29 MB, pdf), $25 NOTE: FILE TOO LARGE TO INCLUDE 9 MAPS
• Environment Bay of Plenty State of the Environment: Groundwater Level and Quality (4 MB, pdf), $15
• Future use of groundwater resources in the Bay of Plenty (540 KB, pdf), $15
• Groundwater age and chemistry, and future nutrient loads for selected Rotorua lake catchments (4.4 MB, pdf), $10
• Groundwater age and chemistry data report - Waingaehe and Ngongotaha Stream Calibration programme (6.9 MB, pdf), $12
• Groundwater age, time trends in water chemistry and future... (6 MB, pdf), $15
• Groundwater in the Lake Rerewhakaaitu Catchment (2.8 MB, pdf), $15
• Groundwater resource investigations of the Rangitaiki Plains stage 1 (6.13MB, pdf), $30
• Groundwater resource investigations of the Western Bay of Plenty area stage 1 - conceptual geological and hydrological models and preliminary allocation assessment (16 MB, pdf), $55 NOTE: LARGE FILE
• Groundwater resource investigations of the Paengaroa-Matata area stage 1 - conceptual geological and hydrogeological models and preliminary allocation assessment (13 MB, pdf), $25 NOTE: LARGE FILE
• Installation of Wells at Taylor Reserve and Otamarakau Marae for Seawater Intrusion Monitoring (13.7 MB, pdf) $25 NOTE: TOO LARGE TO DOWNLOAD
• Lake Rotorua groundwater study: results of the 2004/2005 field..., (11 MB, pdf) $30 NOTE: LARGE FILE
• Lake Tarawera Groundwater Investigation Phase 2 (23.5 MB, pdf) $42 NOTE: TOO LARGE TO DOWNLOAD
• Mixing of Tikitere Geothermal Discharges with Sewage (41 KB, pdf), $10
• Nutrient discharge to groundwater at the Kaharoa rainfall recharge site, Rotorua (1.6 MB, pdf) $12
• Prediction of Future Nitrogen Loading to Lake Rotorua (497 KB, pdf), $10
• Regional Geological GIS Map Report, N/C
• Review of groundwater in the Lake Rotorua catchment, $42
• Water Quality and water dating of the Rerewhakaaitu groundwater (2.6 MB, pdf), $10
• Western Bay of Plenty groundwater flow model (13.0KB, pdf) $12
• Whakatane Microzoning Study Volume 1 - Text and Figure, Whakatane Microzoning Study Volume 2 - Appendices, $30 for set of both volumes

Harrison Grierson

• Review of the Agrichemical Spray Rules (14.5 MB, pdf) $12 NOTE: TOO LARGE TO DOWNLOAD

Helen Ritchie

• Review of research on practives to reduce N and P loss from farms in Rotorua Lakes Catchments (369 KB, doc) N/C

Hill Young Cooper

• Coastal Hazard Risk Indicators (506 KB, pdf), $15

Ian Kusabs

• An ecological overview of the Puarenga Stream with particular emphasis on cultural values (1.4 MB, pdf), N/C
• Ohau Channel Diversion Wall: an assessment of the koura and kakahi populations in the Okere Arm and Lake Rotoiti (912 KB pdf), N/C

ICE GEO & Civil

• Sullivan's Breach, Rangitaiki River Stopbank 18 July 2004 (1201 KB pdf), $15

InSitu Heritage

• Coastal Historic Heritage Review Project: Historic Heritage Inventory (746 KB pdf), $15
• Papamoa Hills Regional Park Conservation Plan (2.3 MB, pdf), N/C

Industrial Research

• Rotorua geothermal reservoir modelling part 1 (2.9 MB pdf), $15
• Rotorua geothermal reservoir modelling part 2 (189 KB pdf), $10
• Rotorua Geothermal Reservoir Modelling 2006: Heat Exchanger Scenarios Preliminary Report May 2008 (404 KB pdf), $10
• Rotorua Geothermal Reservoir Modelling 2006: Heat Exchanger Scenarios and Exclusion Zone Assessment Final Report July 2007 (697 KB pdf), $12

Key Research

• Bus satisfaction survey 2010 (301 KB, pdf) $12
• Bus satisfaction survey June 2008 (152 KB, pdf), $10
• Bus satisfaction survey May 2009 (250 KB, pdf), $10
• Community Outcomes Survey Report 2010 (1.3 MB, pdf)
• Perceptions Survey 2010 (830 KB, pdf)

Landcare Research

• Denitrification in a Rotoehu Stream, 2nd Installation (2 MB, pdf) $10
• An Updated Assessment of Geothermal Vegetation in the Bay of Plenty Region Based on 2007 Aerial Photography

Marico Marine

• Eastern Bay of Plenty Harbours Navigational Risk Assessment (1.5 MB pdf), $15

Massey University

• An analysis of potential use of deferred irrigation in Pongakawa... (235 KB pdf), $10

Matthews & Matthews Architects Ltd

• Opotiki Town Centre Historic Heritage Study: Part One (3.3 MB, pdf) and  Part Two: Inventory and Record Forms (1.1 MB, pdf) $40 for the printed set of Part One and Two, N/C for CD version

McGregor & Company

• Bay of Plenty Regional Airports Requirements (336 KB pdf), N/C

McKindley Douglas

• Enhancing the effectiveness of the relationships between local governments in the Bay of Plenty (490 KB, pdf), N/C
• Government Funding of Rotorua Lakes restoration (349 KB, pdf), N/C

Nimmo-Bell

• An economic evaluation of water quality induced changes... (347 KB pdf), N/C
• The Rotorua lakes evaluation of less tangible values (1.4 MB pdf), $15

NIWA

• A Review of the Hydrodynamic and Plankton Modelling Conducted by ASR Ltd on behalf of Environment Bay of Plenty (577 KB, pdf), $12
• An Updated Climate Change Assessment for the Bay of Plenty (2.12 MB, pdf) $15
• Baseline Study of the Potential Impact of Increased Trout Numbers in the Kaituna River on Whitebait (193 KB pdf), $12
• Comparison of efficacy of four P-inactivation agents on Lake Rotorua sediments (1 MB, pdf) $15
• Contour grass filter strips: hydrology and water quality (2 MB, pdf) $12
• Effects of the Cold, Spring-fed, Inlet Streams on Rainbow Trout Distribution in Lake Rotorua (1.2 MB, pdf), $12
• Hamurana Stream Water Movement in Lake Rotorua (1 MB, pdf) $10
• Impacts of climate change on the coastal margins of the Bay of Plenty (5.8 MB pdf), $15
• Investigation into the role of jet boating on bank erosion in the Kaituna River (3.3 MB, pdf), $15
• Lake Okareka: Ecological functions of marginal vegetation and the effect of boat lanes (836 KB pdf), $12
• Lake Okareka Trophic State Targets (285 KB, pdf), $10
• Lake Rotoiti-Ohau Channel: Assessment of Effects of Engineering Options on Water Quality (1.5 MB, pdf), $15
• Lake Rotorua Nutrient Load Targets (797 KB, pdf), $15
• MHWS Level for the Bay of Plenty (1.1 MB, pdf), $12
• Minimum Flow Report for the Tauranga Area (4.2 MB, pdf), $12
• Minimum flows for the Whirinaki River and upper-Rangitaiki River (846 KB pdf), $12
• Modelling diversion walls for diverting the Ohau Channel inflow (4.7 MB, pdf), $12
• Nitrogen exports from the Lake Rotorua Catchment - calibration of the ROTAN model (1.8 MB, pdf) $15
• Ohau Channel Groynes (7.5 MB pdf), $15
• Okawa Bay Water Quality Study (2.3 MB, pdf), $12
• P-inactivation efficacy of Z2G1 as a capping agent on Lake Okaro sediment (993 KB pdf), $12
• Pongakawa/Kaituna Dairy Effluent Disposal Project- Advice to Environment Bay of Plenty (419 KB, pdf), $10
• Potential effects of tench in New Zealand freshwater ecosystems (451 KB pdf), $12
• Potential Effects on Smelt of Diverting Ohau Channel Water out of Lake Rotoiti (2.7 MB, pdf), $15
• Review of the Potential for Biomanipulation of Phytoplankton Abundance by Freshwater Mussels (Kakahi) in the Te Arawa Lakes, $10
• Smelt Monitoring in the Ohau Channel and Lake Rotoiti 2008/09 (472 KB, pdf) N/C
• Storm Nutrient Loads in Rotorua Streams (2.1 MB, pdf) $15
• Supplement to Lake Rotoiti diversion wall modelling (2 MB pdf), $10
• Tauranga Harbour Sediment Study: Assessment of Predictions for Management - Amended May 2010 (6 MB, pdf), $25
• Tauranga Harbour Sediment Study: Catchment Model Results - Amended May 2010 (1.8 MB, pdf), $12
• Tauranga Harbour Sediment Study: Harbour Bed Sediments (8.3 MB, pdf), $12
• Tauranga Harbour Sediment Study: Hydrodynamic and Sediment Transport Modelling (2.7 MB, pdf), $12
• Tauranga Harbour Sediment Study: Implementation and Calibration of the USC-3 Model (Final report - May 2009) (3.2 MB, pdf), $15
• Tauranga Harbour Sediment Study: Sediment Load Model Implementation and Validation (2 MB, pdf), $25
• Tauranga Harbour Sediment Study: Specifications of Scenarios (1.4 MB, pdf), $10
• Tauranga Harbour Sediment Study: Predictions of Harbour Sedimentation under Future Scenarios - Amended May 2010 (850 KB, pdf), $15
• The Ecological Condition of the Rotorua Lakes using LakeSPI 2008 (3 MB, pdf) $12
• The Ecological Condition of the Rotorua Lakes using LakeSPI 2009 (4 MB, $12)
• The Ecological Condition of the Rotorua Lakes Using Lake SPI 2010 (10,141KB, pdf) $12
• The Ecological Condition of the Rotorua Lakes Using LakeSPI 2011 (0.99 MB, pdf) $12
• The Hamurana Stream in Lake Rotorua: Some Potential Effects of its Diversion on the Trout Fishery and on Summer Nutrient Dynamics (2 MB, pdf), $12
• The Climate of the Bay of Plenty: Past and Future?, $15
• The Condition of Twelve Lakes in the Rotorua Lakes Region using SPI (547 KB, pdf), $12
• Tsunami hazard for the Bay of Plenty and eastern Coromandel Peninsula (2.9 MB pdf), $15
• Tsunami Source Study (660 KB pdf), N/C
• Wairakei/Te Tumu Tsunami Inundation Study (636 KB, pdf) N/C
• Water Level Fluctuations in Lake Rotoiti and their Ecological Implications (227 KB, pdf), $10

OPUS

• Edgecumbe Urban and Rural Flood Hazard Mitigation Options Study (1.2 MB, pdf), $15
• Review of the Bay of Plenty Regional Coastal Environment Plan (1 MB, pdf) $15
• Rivers and Drainage Scheme Review (1.4 MB, pdf) N/C
• Wetland Feasibility for Nutrient Reduction to Lake Rotorua (2.51MB, pdf), $15

P Wallace

• Ford's Cut history and bank erosion assessment (994 KB, pdf), $10
• Hydraulic modelling of the Kaituna River (4.6 MB, pdf), $15
• Hydraulic modelling of the lower Whakatane River and floodplain (3 MB, pdf), $15
• Rediversion of Kaituna River into Maketu Estuary Hydraulic Modelling and Costing (6.5 MB pdf), $12

Property Solutions

• The options and basis for a coastal marine occupations charging regime (197 KB pdf), N/C

Scion

• Lake Okareka and Tikitapu Fish Health Monitoring 2006 (1.6 MB pdf), $15
• Lake Okareka and Tikitapu Fish Health Monitoring 2007 (336 KB pdf), $12
• Nitrogen leaching from gorse - final report (482 KB, pdf) $12

SEM NZ Ltd

• Background levels of agrichemical residues in Bay of Plenty soils (269 KB pdf), $15

Sinclair Knight Merz

• Bay of Plenty Regional Air Emission Inventory (508 KB, pdf) $15
• Waste Infrastructure review and strategic assessment N/C

Synergia

• Bay of Plenty Proposed Regional Policy Statement: Social and Economic Impact Assessment (1.16 MB, pdf) N/C

Tai Perspectives

• Ohope Kiwi Food Availability Project (700 KB, pdf) $15

University of Waikato

• Lake Rotoiti fieldwork and modelling to support considerations of Ohau Channel diversion from Lake Rotoiti, $15
• Water flow between Ohau Channel and Lake Rotoiti following mplementation of a diversion wall (888 KB, pdf) N/C

URS

• Review of reports on railway crossings on Tauranga Harbour $10
• Second stage phosphorus removal for Rotorua lakes/streams (672 KB pdf), $15

von Voorthyysen, Rob

•  Gap Analysis of Regional Coastal Environmental Plan Against the NZCPS 2010 (492 KB, pdf) N/C

WasteNot

• Organic Waste Options Study (986 KB, pdf) N/C

Wildland

• Aerial Monitoring of Coastal Indigenous Forest in the Bay of Plenty Region 2003 (3.4 MB, pdf), $12
• Bay of Plenty Costal Environment Significant Vegetation and Habitat Zone - Vol. 2: Maps, $15
• Bay of Plenty Region sand dune vegetation mapping and conditions assessment methods for Tauranga Ecological district (608 KB, pdf), $12
• Digital map of significant natural areas in the Opotiki district (3.3 MB, pdf), $12
• Digital map of significant natural areas in 1996 in the Whakatane district (4.1 MB, pdf), $12
• Digital Mapping of Geothermal Vegetation in the Bay of Plenty - Based on 1995 Aerial Photographs
• Field survey of selected threatened, at risk, and other significant indigenous plants in the Ohiwa Harbour Catchment (9.26MB, pdf) N/C
• Geothermal Vegetation of the Bay of Plenty Region 1996
• Geothermal Vegetation of the Bay of Plenty Region Based on the 2003 Digital Aerial Photographs
• Ecological Networks and Connections in the Smartgrowth Project Area Outside of the Catchment of Tauranga Harbour, N/C
• Ecological Survey of Regenerating Indigenous Dune Forest, Matata, Bay of Plenty, $15
• Environmental assessment of the wider Te Puna and Waipapa Catchments, Western Bay of Plenty, $25
• Overview of Ecological Networks and Connections in the Smartgrowth Project Area, N/C
• Significant Indigenous Vegetation and Significant Habitats of Indigenous Fauna in the Coastal Environment of the Bay of Plenty Region - Vol. 1, $90
• State of the environment assessment for the catchments of the Kaimai Range and Northern Mamaku Plateau $75
• Tauranga Ecological District Phase 1 Protected Natural Areas Programme Report, $15
• Vegetation and Habitat Types of the Lower Kaituna River, Western Bay of Plenty, $15