Monitoring and science

Aside from encouraging, guiding, and strengthening natural resource management in the Wellington Region; Greater Wellington also monitors the state of those resources - soils, waterways, lakes, wetlands, coastline and marine areas, air and biological diversity (including plants, birds, lizards, fish, and insects). On this page you can find out more about what we do and how successful we are in our efforts to manage the environment in a sustainable way.

Environmental monitoring

To get an overview of what we do, take a look at our Environmental Monitoring page

Environmental reporting

We prepare annual reports and summary report cards on air quality, bathing water quality, freshwater quality, surface water hydrology, groundwater and coastal monitoring to help us assess how well we are managing the environment. These reports and more detailed technical reports contribute to Greater Wellington's five-yearly State of the Environment Report, known as Measuring Up.

Every month we produce hydrological summaries of recent trends in rainfall, river flows and groundwater levels.