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Programme overview
Greater Wellington Regional Council’s river water quality and ecology monitoring programme provides information on the stream condition across the Wellington Region. Water quality and ecosystem health are currently monitored at 38 hard-bottomed and 7 soft-bottomed river and stream sites within each main river catchment (Whaitua). These sites were chosen to represent the major land uses and human activities and the natural diversity of rivers and streams in the wider Wellington Region. This report contains monitoring results from 2015/16 to 2019/20.
Monitoring network
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Water quality monitoring
River and stream water quality is assessed at monthly intervals by measuring a range of physicochemical and microbiological variables:
Ecological monitoring
Ecological variables assessed as part of the programme include:
This web report may be cited as:
GWRC 2020. Rivers water quality and ecology annual report 2019/2020. Greater Wellington Region Council. Available at: https://www.gw.govt.nz/annual-monitoring-reports/2020/rivers-water-quality-and-ecology
