An Assessment of Regional Council Water Quality Data (1996–2002) in Support of National State of Environment Reporting (ENZ07)

Appendix 1: Breakdown of Monitoring Sites by REC Classes

Classification	Categories		Code	Number of sites
Climate	Warm	Warm extremely wet	WX	4
		Warm wet	WW	118
		Warm dry	WD	20
	Cool	Cool extremely wet	CX	49
		Cool wet	CW	241
		Cool dry	CD	113
Source of flow	Upland	Glacial mountain	GM	2
		Mountain	M	11
		Hill	H	182
	Lowland	Low elevation	L	315
	Other	Lake	Lk	35
Land cover	Pastoral	Pasture	P	355
	Natural	Bare	B	2
		Indigenous forest	IF	102
		Tussock	T	15
		Scrub	S	18
		Exotic forest	EF	27
		Wetland	W	0
	Urban	Urban	U	26
Aggregated categories²	Pastoral upland			100
	Pastoral lowland			238
	Natural upland			85
	Natural lowland			37

2 Excludes sites in exotic forest and lake-fed sites. Natural land cover includes IF, S and T.