Part III: Explanatory Notes to the Guidelines
The following explanatory notes are provided to give more detail on some of the issues raised in Parts I and II.
- SECTION G: NOTES TO PART I: The Framework
for Monitoring Recreational Water Quality
- Note G(i): Respiratory illness
- Note G(ii): Examples of health risks
- Note G(iii): State of the Environment Reporting
- Note G(iv): Pressure-State-Response model
- Note G(v): Integrating public health and state of the environment data
- Note G(vi): Merging with existing microbiological programmes
- Note G(vii): Different roles and responsibilities adopted around New Zealand
- Note G(viii): The legislative basis for the Ministry’s recommendations
- Note G(ix): Legal opinion on roles and responsibilities
- Note G(x): The Annapolis Protocol
- SECTION H: NOTES TO PART II: Guidelines
for Recreational Water Quality
- Note H(i): Sampling times and periods
- Note H(ii): Techniques for taking and analysing samples
- Note H(iii): Establishing a Sanitary Inspection Category (SIC)
- Note H(iv): Catchment Assessment Checklist (CAC) for marine recreational waters
- Note H(v): Microbiological Assessment Category (MAC) for marine recreational waters
- Note H(vi): Suitability for recreation grade for marine recreational waters
- Note H(vii): Catchment Assessment Checklist for freshwater recreational areas
- Note H(viii): Microbiological Assessment Category for freshwater recreational areas
- Note H(ix): Suitability for recreation grade for freshwater recreational areas
- Note H(x): Application of grades and single samples
- Note H(xi): Interim grading
- Note H(xii): Modifying beach grades
- Note H(xiii): Percentile guideline values for seawater (WHO 2001) and freshwater
- Note H(xiv): Derivation of alert and action levels for seawater and freshwater
- Note H(xv): State of the environment analysis and reporting
- Note H(xvi): Reporting to the public
- Note H(xvii): Management responses to exceedances for marine and freshwater
