Overview
Greater Wellington carries out coastal monitoring at a range of beach, estuary, harbour and rocky shore sites throughout the region. Monitoring has typically focussed on the impact and accumulation of urban stormwater contaminants and sediment in estuaries and harbours, as these are our most vulnerable depositional environments. Representative beach and rocky shore habitats are surveyed periodically with results available in previous years. Use the monitoring year links in the top navigation bar to see reports for each year.
2021/22 coastal monitoring:
Te Awarua-o-Porirua Harbour Fine Scale Intertidal Sediment and Macrofaunal Survey
Monitoring and assessment of two sites each in the Onepoto and Pāuatahanui arms of the estuary, January 2022 – full report 
Te Awarua-o-Porirua Harbour Sediment Plate Monitoring
Annual monitoring of sediment deposition and estuary health indicators at nine intertidal and nine subtidal sites, January 2022 – full report
Hutt Estuary Intertidal Sediment Monitoring
Annual monitoring of sediment deposition and estuary health indicators at one site, January 2022 – report card
Fine Scale Intertidal Monitoring of Whareama Estuary
Monitoring and assessment of two sites (downstream and further upstream) in the Whareama Estuary, March 2022 – full report
This web report may be cited as: GW 2022. Coastal water quality and ecology monitoring reports up to June 2022. Greater Wellington.
A PDF list of all the links on this site can be viewed and downloaded here.