Regional rivers water quality monitoring programme: Data report 2016
TR 2017/33
Report: TR 2017/33
Authors: Asaeli Tulagi
About this report
This report provides information on the routine monthly monitoring of water quality at 100 locations across the Waikato region, and includes:
- year 2016 summary statistics tabulated by parameter and reported together
- spatial contour plots for four water quality parameters using spatial interpolation of the median of the previous five years
- summary tables identifying the number of samples meeting ‘satisfactory’ and ‘excellent’ water quality guidelines and standards.
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Regional rivers water quality monitoring programme: Data report 2016 [PDF, 1.2 MB]
| Contents | |
| 1 | Introduction |
| 1.1 | Background |
| 1.2 | Report content |
| 1.3 | Water quality guidelines and standards |
| 2 | Regional rivers monitoring design |
| 2.1 | Sampling locations |
| 2.2 | Sample collection |
| 2.3 | Water quality parameters |
| 2.4 | Quality control, data storage and analysis |
| 2.5 | Reports |
| 3 | Results |
| 3.1 | Regional rivers monitoring programme summary statistics |
| 3.2 | Regional rivers monitoring programme comparison with water quality guidelines and standards |
| References | |
| Appendix I: Water quality guidelines and standards | |
| Appendix II: Water quality monitoring parameters | |
| Field instruments and analytical methods | |