Lake Manager's Handbook: Land-Water Interactions
June 2002, Ref. ME442
Information for lake managers on the relationship between water quality in lakes and the processes in the surrounding catchment.
Availability:
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- Printed copies free from the Ministry for the Environment (email orders@mfe.govt.nz)
Contents:
Section 1: Background
Section 2: Water and sediment sources
Section 3: Nitrogen and phophorus sources
Section 4: Modelling sediment and nutrient sources
Section 5: Monitoring and measuring loads
Section 6: Reducing loads to a lake
Appendices:
- Appendix 1: Estimation of the concentration of nitrogen and phosphorus under different land uses
- Appendix 2: Lake Rotorua case study
- Appendix 3: Lake Taupo case study
- Appendix 4: Lake Alexandrina case study
- Appendix 5: Lake Coleridge case study
- Appendix 6: Lake Forsyth case study
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