Environmental monitoring 2013 data report

TR 2014/21
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Report: TR 2014/21

Author: Environmental Monitoring Programme staff (Waikato Regional Council)

About this report

Waikato Regional Council is required to collect environmental information to comply with its obligations under Section 32 of the Resource Management Act 1991.

Waikato Regional Council's Environmental Monitoring Programme is responsible for much of this collection.

The Environmental Monitoring Programme is ISO 9001:2008 registered through Telarc New Zealand for the supply of environmental information and services, including water quality, biological sampling, air quality, land and rating information and geographical information systems.

This report summarises the information collected during the 2013 calendar year.

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Contents
1 Introduction
2 Data management 
2.1  General 
3 Quality managment 
3.1  Data availability 
3.2 How to contact us 
4  Directions
4.1  Work programme 2013/2014
4.2  Information network 
5  Telemetry system 
6  Usage of data 
6.1 Information requests
7 Rainfall data
7.1 General
7.2 Manual sites
7.3 Automatic stations
8 Surface water level data
8.1 General
8.2 Manual sites
8.3 Automatic stations
9 Water flow data
9.1 General
9.2 Manual sites
9.3 Automatic stations
10 Groundwater level data
10.1 General
10.2 Manual sites
10.3 Automatic stations
11 Surface water temperature data
11.1 General
11.2 Manual sites
11.3 Automatic stations
12 Water quality data
12.1 General
12.2 Manual sites
12.3 Automatic stations
12.4 Groundwater quality
13 Suspended sediment data
13.1 General
13.2 Manual sampling
13.3 Automatic sampling
14 Ecological stream and river monitoring data
14.1 Regional ecological monitoring of streams
14.2 Fisheries monitoring
15 Coastal monitoring
15.1 Regional estuary monitoring programme
15.2 Beach profiles
16 Geothermal data
16.1 General
16.2 Methodology
17 Air quality
17.1 Ambient air quality monitoring
18 Clean streams
18.1 General
18.2 Methodology
19 Catchment environmental monitoring
19.1 General
19.2 Methodology
20 Updates to report