PLANNED POWER OUTAGES

Every week, Network Tasman is carrying out planned maintenance somewhere on the power line network. This requires us temporarily turning the power off to some houses or businesses.

natural materials. Scientists are only beginning to understand the scale, the sources, and risks of microplastic pollution. Recently, some researchers classified them as PBT pollutants: persistent, bioaccumulative, toxic. Keep plastic out of the Bay’s waterways.

The distribution of marine life is limited by the water’s temperature. While some species can only thrive in certain habitats and others at certain depths, the overriding fact is that temperature controls the growth and wellbeing of aquatic life. The evidence from present studies is that the distribution of fish stocks and plants is changing as the ocean warms. The North Atlantic mackerel are one example: moving north from England and Norway to the Faroe Islands and Iceland.

What can Golden Bay do?

There are two problems here. Firstly, how do we rebuild and contain the present biodiversity of the Bay, and accept new species displaced south by the warming temperatures? Australia and many other countries have shown the way, with artificial reefs. These provide real solutions for safeguarding underwater biodiversity and improved productivity, providing new habitat to support key fish and invertebrate species. What are the advantages? They provide a hard substrate habitat on the flat sea floor for fish, crustaceans, and encrusting organisms. They provide spawning, nursery, feeding, and refuge area for marine life, both present and relocated species.

The ocean is far better at storing carbon than trees: there are a greater number of organisms that can sequester carbon in a safe organic form. For example, the World Bank seaweed aquaculture study: every 3.5 tonnes of wet seaweed utilises 1.27 tonnes of carbon. Another example, in Hong Kong: after one year, 16 artificial reef modules supported a community of barnacles, tunicates, and bryozoans, that sequestered 2,352kg carbon per year. These are called the pioneer species; the specialist species colonise at a slower rate but sequester carbon in greater amounts.

Get Golden Bay prepared to face the future.

We let your electricity retailer know well in advance when a power outage caused by planned maintenance is due to happen. They will let you know, usually via email, that your power is going to be turned off while we carry out the work.

Sometimes customers phone us after the power has gone off to say they were not notified of a planned power outage. Not knowing about an outage can be hugely disruptive for customers, which is not what we want. We want you to know in advance so that you can make plans for the outage.

There can be a number of reasons why you might be unaware that the power will be temporarily turned off for maintenance work, but there are some things you can do to make sure you get planned outage notifications:

Î Check the contact details that your electricity retailer has for you, and make sure they are correct.

Î Check your email settings to make sure emails from your electricity retailer don’t accidentally end up in your ‘junk’ folder or somewhere else that you don’t usually look.

Î If you are not the electricity account holder, make sure the person or company who is, knows to pass outage notifications on to you. For example, if you are a tenant and the landlord gets the power bill, the landlord will get the outage notification, not you.

Î Ask your electricity retailer how they let you know about planned power outages, and think about whether this will be okay for you.

Î Some electricity retailers can provide outage notification by text message. If you want this, ask your retailer if they can do it for you.

Î Keep an eye out for more than one outage notification from your electricity retailer. Sometimes we need to have two or more outages in the same area to get the work done. Each outage is notified separately by your electricity retailer.

Contact your electricity retailer if you want to know more about how they notify customers of planned outages.

If you want to know more about how Network Tasman plans maintenance work, get in touch with us at info@networktasman.co.nz

Results And Fixtures

GOLF

6 June. Wadsworth Matchplay singles: B Miller bt S Rosser 2up. Best stableford: C Gilbert 33. Closest to pin: 9/18 R Reynish.

7 June. Stableford: R Young 38, D Win 38, G Rowe 37. Closest to pin: 3/12 J Garner, 4/13 M Adams, 8/17 C Hadler, 9/18 D Win. Best gross: D Win 76.

10 June. Hay Cup (Net): G Bradley 70, T Polglase 70, D Win 70. Closest to pin: 3/12 R Ancell, 4/13 W Collie, 8/17 D Win, 9/18 J Garner. Twos: R Dyce, J Garner. Happy wanderer: W Rothwell. Best gross: D Win 77.

BRIDGE

7 June. Rangihaeata Pairs Session 3. N/S: H Curtis/R McDonald 62%; B Burdett/ J Edmondson 57%; E Bradshaw/P Panzeri 50%. E/W: J Kingston/K Van Der Struys 58.50%; P O'Connor/R Berry 49.50%; D Sarll/A Telford 49%. H/cap: N/S: H Curtis/R McDonald 60.50%; B Burdett/ J Edmondson 55.75%; E Bradshaw/P Panzeri 47.75%.

E/W: P O'Connor/R Berry 59.25%; J Kingston/K Van Der Struys 57.25%; L Thomas/B Adams 48.50%.

9 June. Friday Champs Session 5: E Bradshaw/D Perreau 56%; D Sarll/J Kingston 53%; J Morgan/J Massey 52%. H/cap: E Bradshaw/D Perreau 56.75%; J Morgan/J Massey 55.25%; L Field/H Curtis 54.25%.

RUGBY: U18s Girls match

Wednesday 21 June

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Takaka Rugby Football Club

Saturday 17th June

U6s & U8s - 5 30pm Friday Night

U9s - BYE

U11s - 11am vs Wanderers at Lord Rutherford Park

U13s - 11am vs Rangers at Upper Moutere Domain

U14s - 1pm vs Marlborough Boys Blue at Renwick Domain

U15s - 11am vs Kahurangi at Riwaka Cemetery Ground

Div II - 1.15pm vs Huia at Sportspark Motueka

Hope to see you on the sideline in red and blue