Waikato River water quality monitoring programme: data report 2016

TR 2017/14

Report: TR 2017/14

Author: A Tulagi

About this report

The report provides the following information on routine monthly monitoring of water quality of the Waikato River during 2016:

Year 2016 summary data tabulated by parameter for each location and reported with the median of the previous 5 years.
Key parameter graphs showing the average water quality for 2016 at each location, compared to results of the previous 5 years.
Summary tables identifying the number of samples meeting ‘satisfactory’ and ‘excellent’ water quality standards and guidelines.
Raw data for 2016.

Additional information on flow is provided in the appendices on flow and datasonde deployments.

Contents
1	Introduction
1.1	Background
1.2	Report content
1.3	Water quality guidelines and standards
2	The Waikato River monitoring programme design
2.1	Sampling collection
2.2	Sample locations
2.3	Water quality parameters
2.4	Quality control, data storage and analysis
2.5	Reports
3	Results
3.1	Waikato River monitoring programme
	Routine water quality monitoring
	Summary statistics
	Five yearly major ion statistics
	Key parameter graphs
	Comparison with water quality standards
	Raw data
3.2	Waikato River monitoring programme
	Bathing season microbiological survey
	Summary statistics
	Comparison with water quality standards
	Parameter graph
	Raw data
	References
	Appendix I
	Flow Information
	Appendix II
	Datasonde deployments
	Diurnal variation of selected water quality parameters
	Appendix III
	Water quality parameters
	Guidelines and standards
	Analytical methods