Volcanic Ash Impacts

Living on a volcanic plateau, much of our work has focused on understanding our infrastructure vulnerability to volcanic hazards and improving our ability to respond and recover.

The Volcanic Impacts Study Group (VISG) has initiated and undertaken much of this work, which includes:

Posters for infrastructure managers responding to volcanic ash events.

These posters have so far been developed for electricity, airports, roads and water supply. Download the posters below.

Electricity Ash Poster

  • Type: PDF
  • Size: 2249kb
  • Published: 04.10.2009

AELG-18 Road Ash Poster.pdf

  • Type: PDF
  • Size: 1257kb
  • Published: 22.06.2009

AELG-9 Airport Ash Poster.pdf

  • Type: PDF
  • Size: 988kb
  • Published: 04.10.2009

Water poster.pdf

  • Type: PDF
  • Size: 1818kb
  • Published: 04.10.2009

Volcanic Ash Impact of Ash on Electricity, Telecommunications, Broadcasting Networks

A research report to assess the impact of volcanic ash on Auckland's eletricity/telecommunications / broadcasting sector.  Download the pdf report here .... AELG19 - Electricity Comms Ash Impacts FINAL Report V2 20090422.pdf

Health and Safety Impacts of Volcanic Ash report

Provides information to allow agencies to understand the health and safety issues for their staff working in a volcanic ash environment and provides advice on steps employers and staff can take to keep themselves safe in varying levels of ash exposure (e.g. what safety equipment is needed; what safety procedures need to be followed).  Download the pdf report here .... Final Health and Safety Ash Report Dec 05.pdf

Volcanic Ash Impacts on Auckland's Water Supply

This report carried out research and modeling to assess the impact of volcanic ash and the chemical compounds on Auckland's water supply. A number of mitigation measures were recommended.  Download the pdf report here .... SR 2004-25 Ash impacts to Auckland water supplies Part I small.pdf

Ash Impacts of Lifelines, Collection/ Disposal Issues

This was one of the earlier AELG studies which looked at the impacts of ash on lifeline utilities (much of this work has been superceded by the above reports). The report also looked at the likely quantity and properties of ash that may require removal and clean-up from the Auckland region, identified methods of collecting and transporting ash and related environmental and legal issues.  Download the pdf report here .... final volcanic ash report.pdf