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Regional rivers water quality monitoring programme: Data report 2015

TR 2016/43

Report: TR 2016/43

Author: Asaeli Tulagi

About this report

  1. Annual reporting of the Regional River monitoring data – from the RERIMP Programme
  2. Report on the State of river quality for the 2015 calendar year wrt to  5yr medians
  3. The implications of the results for resource management/WRC (link to reason(s) for the project).

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Regional rivers water quality monitoring programme: Data report 2015 [PDF, 1.3 MB]

Contents
1 Introduction 1
1.1 Background 1
1.2 Report content 1
1.3 Water quality guidelines and standards 1
2 Regional rivers monitoring design 2
2.1 Sampling locations 4
2.2 Sample collection 5
2.3 Water quality parameters 5
2.4 Quality control, data storage and analysis 5
2.5 Reports 7
 3 Results 7
 3.1 Regional rivers monitoring programme summary statistics 7
 3.2 Regional rivers monitoring programme comparison with water quality guidelines and standards 27
  References 30
Appendix A 31
Appendix A 32