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  Recreational Water Quality (Hawkes Bay Region)

Water quality monitoring of bathing waters within the Hawkes Bay region for Hawkes Bay Regional Council. Sampling sites are spread throughout the region to provide good geographical cover and are also at popular recreational sites.

Sampling frequency = Weekly; every Monday (20weeks) over the summer period (Nov to Mar). 2 sites sampled fortnightly. Sampling began in 1998 and is ongoing.

Number of sites = 25 total.

Number of replicates = 1 per site.

Measured variables = Water quality: conductivity (at brackish sites only), temperature, Enterococci, faecal coliforms (NZ Labs - APHA 9230C mE) and turbidity.

Sampling protocol & QA = Internal sampling protocol using MoH/MfE Guidelines

 
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. Recreational Water Quality (Hawkes Bay Region). https://dc.niwa.co.nz:/niwa_dc/srv/api/records/22b3c0b3-80e8-49c3-9c7a-249c900d7dd2
 

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Credit
Hawkes Bay Regional Council
Status
On going

  Point of contact

Hawkes Bay Regional Council - Anna Madarasz-Smith (Senior Scientist - Coastal Quality )  
159 Dalton Street Napier 4110 New Zealand

  +64 6 835 9200 or 0800 108 838 (within New Zealand)  
  +64 6 835 3601 
Website
Hawkes Bay Regional Council  

Link to the Hawkes Bay Regional Council website

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Version
Keywords
  • subtidal marine beach coastal water column chemistry physical water sample visual observation
Specific usage
MEMP

 

 
Use limitation
Public
Metadata language
eng
Topic category
  • Environment
Description
Hawkes Bay
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Point of truth URL of this metadata record  

Point of truth URL of this metadata record

OnLine resource
Link to the report and Excel spreadsheet of data for recreational water quality  

Link to the report and Excel spreadsheet of data for 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.

Water sample from top 0.5m of water column

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22b3c0b3-80e8-49c3-9c7a-249c900d7dd2   XML
Date stamp
2013-04-16T10:15:47
Metadata standard name
ISO 19115:2003/19139
Metadata standard version
1.0

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NIWA National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research - Data curator  

 
 

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