A Monitoring and Reporting Strategy for the Dairying and Clean Streams Accord

Appendix 4: Base Information from a Proposed Tier 2 Catchment

This is an example of base information from one of the suggested additional monitoring catchments.

Catchment	Water quality monitoring	Biological monitoring	Flow data available	Comments
Taharua (tributary of Mohaka River), Hawke's Bay	Quarterly sampling for: electrical conductivity ammoniacal nitrogen dissolved inorganic nitrogen total phosphorous pH dissolved oxygen total organic carbon visual clarity water temperature Monthly sampling for: total nitrogen nitrate nitrogen dissolved reactive phosphorous faecal coliforms total suspended solids	Annual sampling for: ash free dry weight chlorophyll a macroinvertebrates	Yes	Two farms Three monitoring sites Background level (upstream) site available Five or six years of record at each site No additional instream monitoring required to align with strategy recommendations

Catchment

Water quality monitoring

Biological monitoring

Flow data available

Comments

Taharua (tributary of Mohaka River), Hawke's Bay

Quarterly sampling for:

Monthly sampling for:

Annual sampling for:

Yes

Two farms

Three monitoring sites

Background level (upstream) site available

Five or six years of record at each site

No additional instream monitoring required to align with strategy recommendations

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