Over the last 2 years, Streamlined Environmental Directors Dr Mike Stewart and Dr Ngaire Phillips have been absorbed in a couple of substantial re-consenting projects, namely discharge consents for Refining New Zealand’s (RNZ) Marsden Point Refinery (Mike) and Oji Fibre Solutions’ (Oji) Kinleith Mill ... Read More
Category: Water quality and ecology
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Feb2021
Streamlined Environmental Ltd aquatic ecologists Dr Rebecca Eivers and Dr Ngaire Phillips have prepared a report on the applicability of the Stream Ecological Valuation (SEV) methodology as a semi-quantitative framework from which to derive functional scores of Freshwater Ecosystem ... Read More
February 16, 2021Ngaire Phillips
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Nov2020
Catchment water quality models were recently developed for both Horizons Regional Council (HRC) and Environment Southland (ES) by Dr Tim Cox. The models simulate the generation, transport, and fate of nutrients through dendritic river networks covering the entirety of each region. Calculated nutrient concentrations at key stream ... Read More
November 9, 2020Ngaire Phillips
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Jul2020
Mike Stewart teamed up with Louis Tremblay (Cawthron Institute) to report on potential issues associated with emerging organic contaminants (EOCs) in the Southland region. Examples of EOCs include industrial chemicals (e.g. flame retardants, plasticisers, surfactants, UV ... Read More
July 7, 2020Ngaire Phillips
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May2020
Dr Rebecca Eivers has been working with farmer Richard Cookson designing and implementing a farm-scale CTW-train (Constructed Treatment Wetland Train) on a watercourse draining an intensive agricultural catchment supporting dairy cow production. The watercourse flows to the Waitoa River on the Hauraki Plains, near Springdale (Waikato). ... Read More
May 11, 2020Ngaire Phillips