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Monitoring information for your local recreational sites
Site specific information, in particular longer-term ‘beach grades’, can help beach users understand the likely health risk and contributing risk factors when making decisions about when and where to go to the beach.
The following table provides website links to all the councils that currently undertake some form of recreational water quality monitoring. Note that some council web pages are only live during summer months when monitoring is taking place.
Please contact your local council if you require any further specific information about your local beaches.
| Webpages [for recreational water quality monitoring results] |
Council Website
Homepage [water quality monitoring is undertaken but may not be reported] |
|---|---|
| Regional Councils | |
| Otago Regional Council | |
| Bay of Plenty Regional Council | |
| Environment Canterbury | |
| Waikato Regional Council (for Coastal recreation) Waikato Regional Council (for River recreation) Waikato Regional Council (for Lake recreation) |
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| Greater Wellington | |
| Hawke's Bay Regional Council | |
| Northland Regional Council | |
| Horizons Manawatu-Wanganui | |
| Taranaki Regional Council | |
| West Coast Regional Council | |
| Environment Southland | |
| Unitary authorities | |
| Auckland Council | Gisborne District Council |
| Marlborough District Council | |
| Nelson City Council | |
| Tasman District Council | |
Find out more about recreational water quality in New Zealand.
Last updated: 14 July 2011
