Catchment environmental monitoring report 2012/13

The Environmental Monitoring (CEM) Programme was developed to demonstrate the long term benefits of soil conservation. To date, monitoring has been established in selected priority catchments for soil conservation in the Waipā, Lower Waikato, Upper Waikato and Coromandel management zones.

The CEM programme allows the Waikato Regional Council to:

• Demonstrate the long term benefits of soil conservation and river management work programmes.
• Better utilise resources and leverage opportunities to co-ordinate monitoring internally and externally (e.g. within the Waikato Regional Council, NIWA and Landcare Research).
• Integrate new monitoring requirements into existing regional monitoring networks.

Prior to the CEM programme soil conservation implementation relied on regional monitoring information being reinterpreted at a catchment scale. However, this information can often be misleading.

This report provides CEM programme results for the 2012/2013 year.

Report: TR 2013/22

Author: C Littler and N Berry