PDP Publications
Papers, presentations and posters
 
PDP Publications
 
The following publications are a selection of papers, presentations and posters written and presented by PDP staff. Other publications will be added to the database as they become available. If you have a specific request for a PDP publication please contact us.
 
2012 B. Noell & R. Meek, 2012. A Day in the Life of an Earthquake Sewer Recovery Operation. Ingenium Conference 2012 Download Paper  [View/Save] (PDF, 95 KB )
  C. Mountfort & R. Bax, 2012. Group Consultation For a Wastewater Discharge Consent Avoids Hearing. New Zealand Water & Wastes Association Conference 2012 Download Paper  [View/Save] (PDF, 915 KB )
  A. Khan & D. Irvine, 2012. Discharging Wastewater Into Morrinsville STP - When Managed Trade Waste Discharge Really Does Matter. New Zealand Water & Wastes Association Conference 2012 Download Paper  [View/Save] (PDF, 505 KB )
  R. Docherty & W. McKenzie, 2012. Minimising Environmental Impact Through a Targeted River Discharge Approach. New Zealand Water & Wastes Association Conference 2012 Download Paper  [View/Save] (PDF, 633 KB )
  K. Christensen, B. Throssell & C. Crutwell, 2012. A Risk Management Framework to Assess and Mitigate the Scour and Erosion Risk to a Section of the Midland Railway Line. NZHS Conference 2012. Download Paper  [View/Save] (PDF, 230 KB )
  J. Sanson & H. Lough, 2012. Investigation of Lake/Wetland Interaction at Lake Coleridge. NZHS Conference 2012. Download Paper  [View/Save] (PDF, 384 KB )
  B. Savoldelli, P. Namjou & A. Pattle, 2012. Sustainable Water Takes in the Mt Wellington – Mt Smart Aquifer. NZHS Conference 2012. Download Paper  [View/Save] (PDF, 507 KB )
2011 P. Callander, H. Lough & C. Steffens, 2011. New Zealand Guidelines for the Monitoring and Management of Sea Water Intrusion Risk on Groundwater. Download Report: Download Paper  [View/Save] (PDF, 3 MB )
  P. Callander, H. Lough & C. Steffens, 2011. New Zealand Guidelines for the Monitoring and Management of Sea Water Intrusion Risk on Groundwater. Download Spreadsheet: Download Paper  [View/Save] (PDF, 8 MB )
  A. Khan, 2011. Managing Conflicting needs in BNR Treatment of High Strength Nitrogenous Effluents. Water NZ Conference 2011. Download Paper  [View/Save] (PDF, 481 KB )
  A. Khan & D. Irvine, 2011. “Dispose and Forget” Never Works with Land Treatment Systems. NZ Land Treatment Collective Conference 2011. Download Paper  [View/Save] (PDF, 216 KB )
2010 R. Jayaratne, R. Seyb, M. Martindale & J. Shuang Li, 2010. Constructed Wetland Design Practices and performance: An Overview. Water NZ Stormwater Conference 2010. Download Paper  [View/Save] (PDF, 248 KB )
  G. Proffitt, 2010. Contaminated Land Practitioner Accreditation: What would work? WasteMINZ Annual Conference 2010 Download Paper  [View/Save] (PDF, 60 KB )
  P. Namjou & G. Proffitt, 2010. Modelling Effects of Proposed Masterton Land Based Effluent Disposal Scheme on Receiving Environment, Masterton, New Zealand. WaterNZ Conference 2010. Download Paper  [View/Save] (PDF, 2 MB )
  B.C. Harding; A. Pattle; M.G. Harris & G. Twose, 2010. Groundwater Response to the Dewatering of a Volcanic Vent. IAEG Congress 2010. Download Paper  [View/Save] (PDF, 599 KB )
  B.C. Harding; A. Pattle; M.G. Harris & G. Twose, 2010. Groundwater Response to the Dewatering of a Volcanic Vent. IAEG Congress 2010. Presentation: Download Paper  [View/Save] (PDF, 3 MB )
  D.D. Irvine & A. Khan, 2010. Control and Optomisation of a High Strength Nitrogen Industrial Wastewater BNR Plant. Water NZ Conference 2010. Download Paper  [View/Save] (PDF, 221 KB )
  H. Lough; A. Brough; R. Oudshoorn & P. Molony, 2010. Reinjection of Construction Dewatering Water at the University of Canterbury. Water NZ Conference 2010. Download Paper  [View/Save] (PDF, 4 MB )
  C. Rowe, 2010. Zero Discharge of Great Barrier Campground Greywaters. NZ Land Treatment Collective Conference 2010. Download Paper  [View/Save] (PDF, 224 KB )
  C. Rowe & K. Sky, 2010. Oamaru Bay Coastal Land Disposal – A Retrospective. NZ Land Treatment Collective Conference 2010. Download Paper  [View/Save] (PDF, 125 KB )
2009 L. Chrystall & A. Rumsby, 2009. Mercury Inventory for New Zealand 2008. Download Paper  [View/Save] (PDF, 2 MB )
  A. Rumsby, 2009. Trace Elements in the Sediment of Waikato West Coast Estuaries Download Paper  [View/Save] (PDF, 1 MB )
  B. Veendrick & N.F.D. Ward, 2009. Hydrology, Irrigation Demand and Supply: An Integrated Modelling Approach Using MATLAB. WaterNZ Conference 2009. Download Paper  [View/Save] (PDF, 1 MB )
  M. Pennington, 2009. "Not-Modelling" for Stormwater Around the Kaikoura Alluvial Fans. WaterNZ Conference 2009 Download Paper  [View/Save] (PDF, 912 KB )
  M. Pennington, J. Melanson 2009. Amberly Floods - July and August 2008. WaterNZ Conference 2009 Download Paper  [View/Save] (PDF, 3 MB )
  M. Clyde & G. Proffitt, 2009. Audit of the Remediation of the former Fruitgrowers Chemical Company Site, Mapua. Download Paper  [View/Save] (PDF, 7 MB )
  R. Lidgard & G. Proffitt, 2009. Marfell Park, New Plymouth, Environmental Investigation. Download Paper  [View/Save] (PDF, 2 MB )
  B. Harding & C. Hovey, 2009. Understanding Hydrochemical Processes for Resource Evaluation and Planning in a Limestone Aquifer. NZHS Conference 2009. Download Paper  [View/Save] (PDF, 5 MB )
2008 A. Rumsby, 2008. Significance of Arsenic in Sediments of Lake Rotoroa (Hamilton Lake). Waikato Regional Council Technical Report TR 2011/18. Download Paper  [View/Save] (PDF, 3 MB )
  N. Crampton, K. Sky & F. Eakin, 2008. Natural Attenuation of Chlorinated Ethenes in Groundwater: Key Findings from 8 Years of Monitoring. WasteMINZ Annual Conference 2008. Download Paper  [View/Save] (PDF, 156 KB )
  H. Davies, 2008. A Guideline on the Use of Soil Compositing in Contaminated Site Investigations. WasteMINZ Annual Conference 2008. Download Paper  [View/Save] (PDF, 71 KB )
  B. Harding, G. Strayton, A. Pattle, X. Captain & G. Ockleston, 2008. Auckland’s Stormwater—Increased Disposal Issues. NZWWA Stormwater Conference 2008. Download Paper  [View/Save] (PDF, 7 MB )
  A. Khan, 2008. Silver Ferns Farms—Finegand meat processing effluent treatment plant upgrade. NZWWA Water & Wastes Journal. Issue 157, November 2008. Download Paper  [View/Save] (PDF, 155 KB )
  A. Khan & N. Crampton, 2008. Loss of Support From Below—Failure of Wastewater Treatment Lagoon. NZWWA Conference 2008. Download Paper  [View/Save] (PDF, 528 KB )
  A. Rumsby & N. Kim, 2008. Are Urban Lakes Contaminated Land? New Zealand Trace Elements Group Conference 2008. Download Paper  [View/Save] (PDF, 4 MB )
  A. Rumsby, 2008. Trace Element Enrichment in Sediments of the Lower Eastern Firth of Thames. New Zealand Trace Elements Group Conference 2008. Download Paper  [View/Save] (PDF, 5 MB )
  R. Seyb, M. Lindgree, I. Mayhew, G. Ockleston, R. Ouwejan, 2008. Developing Contaminant Management Priorities in Auckland City. NZWWA Stormwater Conference 2008. Download Paper  [View/Save] (PDF, 1 MB )
  A. Khan, G. Pearson, S. Selvarajah, 2008. Meat Processsing Effluent Treatment Plant Upgrade - Consents to Commissioning. NZWWA Conference, 2008. Download Paper  [View/Save] (PDF, 146 KB )
  G. Proffitt, J. Cavanagh, J. Court & H. Ellis, 2008. Development of a National Methodology for Risk-Based Human Health Soil Guideline Values for Contaminated Land Assessment. Waste Management Institute New Zealand Annual Conference 2008 Download Paper  [View/Save] (PDF, 187 KB )
2007 P. Callander & C. Steffens, 2007. Land Use Activities to Enhance Groundwater Availability – The Eyre River Recharge Trial. New Zealand Hydrological Society Symposium 2007, Rotorua. Abstract: Download Paper  [View/Save] (PDF, 595 KB )
  D. Irvine, 2007. Land Application of Biosolids - Managing Nitrogen. Land Treatment Conference, 2007. Download Paper  [View/Save] (PDF, 1043680 b )
  A. Anderson & S. Paulsen, 2007. Evaluation of Bacteriological Data from Southern California Watersheds. New Zealand Hydrological Society Conference 2007. Download Paper  [View/Save] (PDF, 1 MB )
  M. Clyde, 2007. UK vs. NZ—Contaminated Land Management Practices. WasteMINZ Annual Conference 2007. Download Paper  [View/Save] (PDF, 57 KB )
2006 A. Khan & D. Irvine, 2006. Phosphorus Removal from Meat Processing Wastewater: Innovation in Process Design. NZWWA 48th Conference & Expo 2006. Download Paper  [View/Save] (PDF, 78 KB )
  P. Namjou & A. Pattle, 2006. Post-Audit of a Numerical Groundwater Flow Model Developed for Britomart Transport Centre, Auckland, New Zealand. NZWWA 48th Annual Conference & Expo 2006. Download Paper  [View/Save] (PDF, 1 MB )
  R. Ouwejan, R. Seyb, G. Paterson, M. Davis, I Mayhew, P. Kinley & B. Sharman, 2006. Source Control or Traditional BMPs? An Assessment of Benefits and Costs in Auckland City. NZWWA Stormwater Conference 2006. Download Paper  [View/Save] (PDF, 80 KB )
  A. Khan, 2006. Soil Water Repellency: Problems for Fibreboard Effluent Irrigation to Pumice Soils. Poster Presentation NZWWA Conference 2006 Download Paper  [View/Save] (PDF, 1 MB )
  P. Namjou et al., 2006. The Integrated Catchment Study of Auckland (New Zealand): Long Term Groundwater Behaviour and Assessment. World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2006, Omaha, Nebraska, USA, 2006 Download Paper  [View/Save] (PDF, 6 MB )
  P. Namjou et al., 2006. Groundwater Behaviour in a Fractured Basalt Aquifer under Existing and Future Climate and Land Use in Auckland City (New Zealand) Download Paper  [View/Save] (PDF, 2 MB )
2005 G. Strayton, P Namjou A. Pattle, P. Kinley, M. Davis & G Paterson, 2005. Sustainability Assessment for Stormwater Soakage in Auckland”, 4th South Pacific Conference on Stormwater and Aquatic Resource Protection, Auckland, New Zealand. 2005 Download Paper  [View/Save] (PDF, 1 MB )
  P.F. Callander, M. Thorley, H. Lough, H. Williams, M. Kininmonth & B. Henderson, 2005. Groundwater Flow Modelling for Groundwater Quality Assessments in Christchurch City. New Zealand Water and Waste Association Annual Conference 2005, Auckland. Download Paper  [View/Save] (PDF, 2 MB )
  A.K. Brough & R. Eastman, 2005. An Experience of Designing and Installing an Infiltration Basin in Christchurch. The 4th South Pacific Conference on Stormwater and Aquatic Resource Protection. Download Paper  [View/Save] (PDF, 2 MB )
  R. Docherty & R. Owen, 2005. Sewage Treatment and Disposal Options for Linton Army Camp. NZWWA 47th Annual Conference & Expo 2005. Download Paper  [View/Save] (PDF, 225 KB )
  R. Seyb & E. Shaver, 2005. Developing Stormwater Source Control Policy: Exposed Metal Roofing in Auckland. The 4th South Pacific Conference on Stormwater and Aquatic Resource Protection. Download Paper  [View/Save] (PDF, 263 KB )
2004 G. Knoyle, A. Beard & B. Henderson, 2004. Petroleum Hydrocarbon Contamination Incident at Christchurch City Council Groundwater Pumping Station. New Zealand Water & Waste, 2004. Download Paper  [View/Save] (PDF, 466 KB )
2003 G. Knoyle & H. Davies, 2003. Accounting for the Potential and Actual Costs Associated with Environment Canterbury’s Pest Depots and Other Sites. WasteMINZ Annual Conference 2003. Download Paper  [View/Save] (PDF, 164 KB )
 
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