Water Quality
To help inform our understanding of priorities for freshwater management in the catchment, an assessment of water quality monitoring in the catchment has been undertaken.
So far this has been completed for the upper and mid Taiari areas, with the lower Taiari assessment due to be completed soon.
You can access the upper and mid Taiari reports here:
This work:
- outlines details of current and historic water quality monitoring carried out by the Otago Regional Council and other organisations to date,
- summarises what is known about water quality state and trends from monitoring and investigations, drawing on existing readily available reports and previously unreported water quality investigation data collected between 2019 and 2023, and
- identifies water quality issues and associated information gaps and monitoring priorities.
This assessment provides valuable insights to help understand our river – its vulnerabilities and special characteristics. It also provides insights for farm management/planning.
This work was commissioned by the Healthy Taieri project and Tiaki Maniototo (in the Upper Taiari area), with the support of funding from Access to Experts.
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