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Water Quality in Selected Dairy Farming Catchments: A baseline to support future water-quality trend assessments

Contents

Executive Summary

Introduction

Methods

Catchment Characteristics

Water-quality Baseline

Summary and Recommendations

References and Information Sources

Appendix 1: Monitoring Catchment Details

Appendix 2: Water-quality Summary Data

Appendix 3: Regression Analyses

Appendix 4: Current Monitoring Programmes

Appendix 5: Recreational Values

 

Acknowledgements

The Ministry for the Environment thanks the following agencies for undertaking catchment monitoring and for providing the water-quality and land-use data presented in this report:

  • Environment Canterbury

  • Environment Southland

  • Environment Waikato

  • Fonterra Co-operative Group Ltd

  • Greater Wellington Regional Council

  • Hawke’s Bay Regional Council

  • Horizons (Manawatu–Wanganui Regional Council)

  • Marlborough District Council

  • National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) Ltd

  • Northland Regional Council

  • Otago Regional Council

  • Taranaki Regional Council

  • Tasman District Council

  • West Coast Regional Council.

Peer review on this report was provided by the agencies listed above, as well as:

  • Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry

  • DairyNZ (on behalf of Fonterra Co-operative Group Ltd)

  • Dr Bob Wilcock (NIWA)

  • Dr Brent Cowie (Cowie Resource Management Ltd)

  • Dr Olivier Ausseil (Aquanet Consulting Ltd)

  • Dr Christoph Matthaei (Department of Zoology, University of Otago).

 

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