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In December 2015 entries from students across the country were judged in Auckland for the NZGS Student Presentation Awards Poster Competition. The competition is designed to recognise and encourage student participation in the fields of rock mechanics, soil mechanics, geotechnical engineering and engineering geology. With…

The graph in Fig 1, taken from Kaipara District Council’s May 2000 “Engineering Code of Practice for Land Subdivision and Development” illustrates the way in which soil Runoff Coefficients may vary according to (i) ground cover and (ii) rainfall intensity (mm/h). Fig 1 – Runoff…