Abstract

Environment Waikato is required to collect environmental information to comply with its obligations under Section 32 of the Resource Management Act 1991. The Environmental Monitoring Programme, Resource Information Group of Environment Waikato is responsible for much of this collection. The Environmental Monitoring Programme is ISO 9001:2000 registered through Telarc New Zealand for the supply of environmental information and services, including water quality, biological sampling, air quality, land and rating information and geographical information systems.

This report summarises the information collected during the 2006 calendar year.

Environmental Monitoring 2006 Data Report [PDF, 132 KB]

Contents
1	Introduction	1
2	Data Management	1
2.1	General	1
3	Quality Management	1
3.1	Data Availability	1
3.2	How to Contact Us	1
4	Directions	2
4.1	Work Programme 2005/2006	2
4.2	Technology	2
5	Summary	2
5.1	Information Network	3
6	Telemetry System	3
7	Usage of Data	4
7.1	Information Requests	4
8	Rainfall Data	4
8.1	General	4
8.2	Manual Sites	5
8.3	Automatic Stations	5
9	Surface Water Level Data	5
9.1	General	5
9.2	Manual Sites	5
9.3	Automatic Stations	5
10	Water Flow Data	6
10.1	General	6
10.2	Manual Sites	6
10.3	Automatic Stations	6
11	Groundwater Level Data	7
11.1	General	7
	11.2 Manual Sites	7
11.3	Automatic Stations	8
12	Surface Water Temperature Data	8
12.1	General	8
	12.2 Manual Sites	8
	12.3 Automatic Stations	8
	13 Water Quality Data	9
13.1	General	9
13.2	Manual Sites	9
13.3	Automatic Stations	9
13.4	Groundwater Quality	9
14	Suspended Sediment Data	9
14.1	General	9
14.2	Manual Sampling	10
14.3	Automatic Sampling	10
15	Ecological Stream and River Monitoring Data	10
15.1	Regional Ecological Monitoring of Streams	10
16	Coastal Monitoring	11
16.1	Regional Estuary Monitoring Programme	11
16.2	Beach Profiles	11
	17 Bathing Beach Bacteriological Sampling	12
17.1	Bathing Beach Bacteriological Sampling	12
17.2	Lake Taupo - Bathing Beach Bacteriological Sampling	12
18	Geothermal Data	12
18.1	General	12
18.2	Methodology	13
19	Air Quality	13
19.1	Ambient Air Quality Monitoring	13
20	Clean Streams	13
20.1	General	13
20.2	Methodology	14
21	Waikato Catchment Services (previously Project Watershed)	14
21.1	General	14
21.2	Methodology	14
22	Updates to Report	15