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MDC groundwater quality State of the Environment (SoE) monitoring site located on a privately owned dairy farm. Site represents shallow, alluvial gravel aquifer on upper terrace draining towards the Rai River. Relatively recently established site to provide wider coverage of Marlborough District tha...

MDC Wairau Valley municipal supply well near Mill Stream at Wairau Valley. Shallow well representing leakage from Mill Creek and rainfall/runoff from South-Bank hill country with limited influence from the Wairau River, although well is very close to the floodway. Important site for tracking changes...

Very shallow MDC monitoring well established at privately owned vineyard to measure groundwater quality and level. Located south-west of Renwick. Represents thin, riparian gravel aquifer associated with Omaka River. Forms part of low yielding Southern Valleys Catchments occupying south-western edge...

Privately owned vineyard irrigation well used by MDC for seasonal State of the Environment (SoE) groundwater quality surveys. Represents less transmissive southern edge of Wairau Aquifer north of Woodbourne. Unconfined aquifer structure but predominantly recharged by Wairau River losses with some ra...

Purpose built MDC monitoring well established to study flow exchange between semi-confined Wairau Aquifer in mid plains area, and hydraulically connected springs. Also used to understand influence of flow variation in Opaoa River channel on groundwater level, and channel leakage on groundwater quali...

The Akatarawa River at Hutt Confluence is located in the lower reaches of the Akatarawa River just before it joins with the Hutt River. The Akatarawa River is a popular for swimming because of the deep pools found there.  This site is monitored as a part of Greater Wellington Regional Council’s Recr...

The Aongatete catchment covers 46 km 2 and the river flows north-east from the Kaimai Ranges to the Tauranga Harbour.  The catchment geology is dacite and Coromandel andesite in the Kaimai Ranges through Waiteariki ignimbrite and then recent and older fluvial terraces with estuarine deposits.

The Aparima is the smallest of Southland’s four main catchments. It extends from the Takitimu Mountains west of Mossburn to the Jacobs River Estuary at Riverton and the headwaters drain alpine, native tussock and forested land.

Located within the upper Aparima catchment, the site Aparima River at Dunrobin is a swift moving section of river with a cobble/boulder riverbed. Water quality data is collected here monthly and Macroinvertebrate annually as part of Environment Southland's State of the Environment monitoring program...

Located within the lower Aparima catchment the site Aparima River at Thornbury has a gravel dominated riverbed. Gravel extraction occurs adjacent to the site. Water quality data is collected here monthly and Macroinvertebrate data annually as part of Environment Southland's State of the Environment...

The Aropaoanui River at Aropaoanui site is a HBRC fresh water quality & ecology monitoring site.

The Arrow River is a tributary of the Kawarau River. It flows around the outskirts of Arrowtown, about 20 minutes drive from Queenstown.  It is a popular location for swimming in the summer with a number of swimming holes and picnic spots along the river track. Water quality is generally excellent....