Regional Rivers Water Quality Monitoring Programme: Data Report 2006

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Report: TR 2007/12
Author: Stuart Beard

Abstract

To effectively manage water quality, the Regional River monitoring programme addresses the following questions:

1. What is the quality of the water now?
2. Why is the water of the observed level of quality?
3. Is water quality getting better or worse? If so - what makes it change?
4. How can we improve the quality, ecological health and integrity of the region’s rivers and streams?

The monitoring information allows Environment Waikato to:

• determine compliance with classification standards
• assess the suitability of the resource for various beneficial uses and values of the water
• monitor the impact of major discrete point source discharges on water quality
• monitor the impacts of diffuse discharges on water quality
• provide a basis for evaluating the effectiveness of resource management measures.

This dataset is invaluable for the evaluation of the region’s rivers: their state, the pressures on them and our response to these pressures. We need to continue to gather comprehensive, reliable and good quality data on the region’s rivers to protect and enhance their values into the future.

This report is the 12^th since the implementation of the Regional Rivers Monitoring Programme (RERIMP) in 1993¹ and follows the format of the previous data report (Smith, 2006). Copies of reports as described in the list of references (page 39) can be obtained by contacting the Environment Waikato Library on 0800 800 401, in electronic format from the publications pages of the Environment Waikato website or via email.

Regional Rivers Water Quality Monitoring Programme : Data Report 2006
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Footnotes

1. Waikato River reported on separately — see Beard, 2006 (in prep).