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Case Study: Noise Impact on the Great Walks of
New Zealand (
Continued
)
huts, and nine were social noise-related at campsites (Cessford, 2000).
Awareness (the percentage noticing noise) was plotted against annoy-
ance (percentage bothered) for all 38 cases across the Great Walks and
this, not surprisingly, revealed that as awareness of noise increased, the
level of annoyance felt by visitors also increased. Cessford's findings also
revealed that the proportion of annoyance among people noticing noise
also increased at a faster rate (i.e. when 30% of visitors noticed noise,
10% were also bothered by it; whereas when 80% noticed noise, 40%
were bothered by it). Of the 38 cases, nine were reported to have annoy-
ance levels of above 25% and two cases were found in which the annoy-
ance level was above 50%. Table 5.6 charts those nine cases, noting both
the issue involved and the noise source.
Table 5.6
Noise impact cases above the 25% threshold
Case
Site
Issue
Source
38
Milford Track
Aircraft scenic fl ights bothered 69%
of track hikers (91% noticed)
External
recreational
35
Abel Tasman
Coast
Recreation boats on the water or
at beaches bothered 53% of
sea-kayakers (74% noticed)
External
recreational
36
Wanganui
River
Recreation boats on the river bothered
34% of canoeists (75% noticed)
External
recreational
30
Abel Tasman
Coast
Recreation boats near huts and
campsites bothered 33% of
sea-kayakers (55 noticed)
External
recreational
37
Milford Track
Other people in huts bothered 33%
of hikers (81% noticed)
Intra-activity
34
Routeburn
Track
Aircraft scenic fl ights bothered 32%
of hikers (63% noticed)
External
recreational
33
Abel Tasman
Track
Recreation boats on the water or
at beaches bothered 30% of
hikers (58% noticed)
External
recreational
26
Kepler Track
Other people in huts bothered 30%
of hikers (51% noticed)
Intra-activity
31
Abel Tasman
Track
Other people in huts bothered 25%
of walkers (57% noticed)
Intra-activity
Source: Based on Cessford (2000: 74).
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