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).

 
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. 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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6b828123-3135-46f0-8ee7-ab7bf0a34bfb   XML
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WWW:LINK-1.0-http--downloaddata
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eng
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  • Environment
 

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  • marine estuarine coastal water column physical chemistry visual observation
 
 

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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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Organisation name
Greater Wellington Regional Council
Email
[email protected]
 

Responsible organization (s)

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Organisation name
Greater Wellington Regional Council
Email
[email protected]
 

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NIWA National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research
Email
[email protected]
Date stamp
2012-08-08T08:14:55
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Conformance class 3: harmonized

 
 

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