Port Nelson/ Nelson City Council Long Term Programme (PNL NCC LTP) — monitoring environmental quality.

Monitoring programme to provide the Port and Council with a long-term record of environmental quality in areas potentially affected by Port activities and to provide a basis for formulating any mitigative steps that may be required in the future.

Temporal coverage: 1996-2012 (on-going)

Number of sites: 1996/1997: 17 sites Monitoring: 14/15 sites Port Nelson and lower Maitai

Sampling Frequency: 1996/1997: baseline survey 6 yearly (2004 then 2010)

Main marine environment sampled: Coastal

Depth zone: Subtidal

Sediment type: Soft

Community association: Mud

Sampling method: Sediment and macrofaunal cores, field surveys

Parameters collected: Sediment, in-fauna, shellfish

Measured variables: Sediment: contaminants, toxicity, trace metals, TBT, total aliphatic hydrocarbons, 72 SVOCs, 60VOCs, particle size, TOC, organic content, organotins, tins; Community: composition, chronic survival test using an estuarine amphipod; Shellfish: bioaccumulation

Species/Community data: Benthic invertebrates

Other data collected: Unknown

Collection: ongoing

Quality assurance: Yes

 
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  • coastal benthic soft chemistry physical ecological
 
 

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Cawthron Institute
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Cawthron Institute
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NIWA National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research
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2012-08-10T09:09:27
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