Bell Island Receiving Water Surveys
This record summarises a monitoring survey of receiving water from Bell Island regional sewerage outfall in Waimea Inlet and Tasman Bay. Benthic surveys are done at the same time.
Temporal coverage: from 2001 (ongoing)
Number of sites: 19 sites in Waimea Inlet, 4 sites at nearby Tahunanui & Rabbit Island beaches (2001), 12 in Waimea Inlet, 11 in Tasman Bay (2005), 12 in Waimea Inlet, 11 in Tasman Bay (2006), 13 in Waimea Inlet, 6 in Tasman Bay (2011)
Sampling Frequency = Irregular (2001, 2005, 2006, 2011)
Main marine environment sampled: Estuarine
Depth zone: N/A
Sediment type: Soft
Community association: Mudflats
Sampling method: Water samples, in-situ water measurements, shellfish samples, field observation
Parameters collected: Water chemistry, shellfish, water bacteriological analyses
Measured variables: Ammonia-N, Nitrate-N, Nitrite-N, TN, DIN, DRP, TP, Faecal coliforms (seawater and shellfish), enterococci (seawater and shellfish), salinity, temperature, chl-a, turbidity, phytoplankton
Species/Community data: Shellfish (cockles, tuatua, green-lipped mussels)
Other data collected: Benthic survey carried out at same time as this study
Collection: ongoing
Quality assurance: Yes
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- Identification
- Distribution
- Quality
- Spatial rep.
- Ref. system
- Content
- Portrayal
- Metadata
- Md. constraints
- Md. maintenance
- Schema info
Identification
Data identification
Citation
- Date
- Credit
- Nelson Regional Sewerage Business Unit (NRSBU) AND Cawthron Institute
- Website
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Link to the website of the Cawthron Institute
Link to the website of the Cawthron Institute
- Keywords
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- Estuarine benthic soft chemistry visual observation
- Use limitation
- Not known if any constraints with reports/data
- Metadata language
- eng
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Oceans
Extent
- Description
- Waimea estuary and inner Tasman Bay
Distribution
- OnLine resource
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Point of truth URL of this metadata record
Point of truth URL of this metadata record
Metadata
Metadata
- File identifier
- 6b12851c-b655-49e3-b974-17c130d97b4c XML
- Date stamp
- 2012-08-10T08:53:38
- Metadata standard name
- ISO 19115:2003/19139
- Metadata standard version
- 1.0
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