Recreational Water Quality (Greater Wellington Region)

Water quality monitoring in estuaries within the Greater Wellington region for the Greater Wellington Regional Council. Data collection began in the 1990s.

Sampling sites are located in Wellington Harbour, Porirua, Paraparaumu, Otaki, Castlepoint and Riversdale.

Sampling frequency = weekly (Nov to Mar) and monthly for rest of the year. Samples are generally collected between 8am and 4pm.

Sampling began in the 1990s and is ongoing.

Number of sites = 76 total.

Number of replicates = 1 per site.

Measured variables = Water measurements: temperature, E Coli (only at an estuarine site), Enterococci, Faecal coliforms (at 9 sites which are also considered recreational shellfish gathering sites) and turbidity (at sites where this is thought to affect bacterial counts).

Sampling protocol & QA = A list of field and laboratory methods can be found in Ryan & Warr (2010).

 
Citation proposal
. Recreational Water Quality (Greater Wellington Region). https://dc.niwa.co.nz:/niwa_dc/srv/api/records/6b828123-3135-46f0-8ee7-ab7bf0a34bfb
 

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Date
Collective title
Ryan, A.; Warr, S. 2010. On the Beaches 2009/10: Annual recreational water quality monitoring report for the Wellington region. Greater Wellington Regional Council, Publication No. GW/EMI-G-10/68.
Credit
Greater Wellington Regional Council, Greater Wellington, Kapiti Coast District Council, Porirua City Council, Hutt City Council, and Wellington City Council.
Status
On going

  Point of contact

  +64 4 385 6960 
Website
Greater Wellington Regional Council  

Link to the Greater Wellington Regional Council website

Keywords
  • marine estuarine coastal water column physical chemistry visual observation
Specific usage
MEMP

 

Use limitation
Restricted. Permission required from the Greater Wellington Regional Council for release of data or reports.
Access constraints
Restricted
Metadata language
eng
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Environment
Description
Wellington Harbour, Porirua, Paraparaumu, Otaki, Castlepoint and Riversdale.
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OnLine resource
Point of truth URL of this metadata record  

Point of truth URL of this metadata record

OnLine resource
Link to the report on recreational water quality  

Link to the report on recreational water quality

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Dataset
Statement

Quality assurance was imposed on methods.

Geographic data used NZTM (LINZ). Temporal data were in NZST.

Origin from which minimum and maximum values are measured: mean low water neap tide

Data collection information: Water sample from top 0.5m of water column

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6b828123-3135-46f0-8ee7-ab7bf0a34bfb   XML
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Date stamp
2012-08-08T08:14:55
Metadata standard name
ISO 19115:2003/19139
Metadata standard version
1.0

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