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Short term field investigations of groundwater resources in Waipa River Catchment - January to April 2015

TR 2018/36
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Report: TR 2018/36

Author: Zara Rawlinson, Kolja Schaller, Marc Andri Riedi, Molla Bekele (GNS Science Consultancy)

About this report

This report was commissioned by the Technical Leaders Group for the Healthy Rivers Wai Ora Project Report No. HR/TLG/2015-2016/1.5A

A greater understanding of water resources within the Waipa River Catchment (Waipa Catchment) is required and WRC has commissioned GNS Science (GNS) to carry out a short term field investigation in the Waipa Catchment, aiming to improve the bank of knowledge underlying Healthy Rivers policy options
The primary reason for undertaking these initiatives are concerns regarding the potential for water quality deterioration due to land use changes such as intensification and deforestation.

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Short term field investigations of groundwater resources in Waipa River Catchment - January to April 2015 [PDF, 19 MB]

Contents
1 Introduction
2 Milestone 1: Project plan 12/12/2014
2.1 Water Balance
2.2 Groundwater-surface water interaction
2.3 Boundary conditions
2.4 Conceptual model building
2.5 Additional calibration data
3 Well selection and site information gathering
4 Water chemistry sampling
4.1 Method
4.2 Sampled wells
5 Age dating sampling
5.1 Method
5.2 Sampled wells
6 Water level surveying
6.1 Method
6.2 Measured wells
7 Hydraulic testing
7.1 Method
7.2 Tested wells
8 Recommendations for future feildwork investigations
9 Conclusions
10 Ackowledgements
11 References