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New Zealand Transport Agency Research

The New Zealand Transport Agency commissions innovative research that contributes towards making New Zealand's land transport system more integrated, safer, more responsive and sustainable.    Some reports relevant to managing stormwater and road runoff are:

New Zealand Roading Network - Integrated Stormwater Management Guidelines, 2005, Research Report no 260.

Development of a Benefit Evaluation Technique applicable to treatment of road run-off, 2005, Research Report no 264. 

Identifying Sensitive Receiving Environments at Risk from Road Runoff, 2007, Research Report no 315. 

Reduction of Road Run-off Contaminants: Laboratory Experiments and Monitoring of Treatment Walls,  2005, Research Report no 282.

Enhancing the control of contaminants for New Zealand's roads: results of a road runoff sampling programme, 2010, Research Report no 395.

Impact of slip sediment on the biota in a New Zealand alpine stream, 1999, Research Report no 097.

Environmental management for roading contractors II. Provisional guidelines for erosion and sediment management during road works, 1999, Research Report no 131.

Reconstruction of coal tar contaminated roads by in-situ recycling using foamed bitumen stabilisation, 2009, Research Report no 388.

Characterisation of runoff contaminants from New Zealand roads and effect of rainfall events, 2002, Research Report no 228.

Aquatic ecotoxicity of cutback bitumen, 2006, Research Report no 285.

Assessing the environmental effects of new and recycled materials in road construction, 2006, Research Report no 306.

Environmental effects of emulsions, 2008, Research Report no 343.

Contaminant characterisation anr toxicity of road sweepings and catchpit sediments: towards more sustainable reuse options, 2008, Research Report no 345.

Field evaluation of catchbasin insert performance, 1999, Research Report no 152.

 

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