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The Ngaruroro River site downstream of Hawke's Bay Dairies (off Matapiro Road) is a HBRC fresh water quality & ecology monitoring site.

The North Otago Freshwater Management Unit (FMU) covers about 296,000 hectares and extends from Waitaki Bridge down through Oamaru, Moeraki, and Palmerston townships to the bottom of the southern branch of the Waikouaiti River. Major rivers within the FMU include the Kakanui, Shag, Waikouaiti and P...

This site on the North Peak Stream is slow flowing with a gravel bed layered with deposited fine sediment. It is also home to Potamopyrguys antipodarium (New Zealand mud snail). River water quality data is collected here monthly as part of Environment Southland's State of the Environment monitoring....

This is a water quality site right below the control gates of Lake Waikare, therefore it is fed directly by Lake Waikare. The catchment is extensive, and it primarily comprises of pastural land. 

The Waiotu and Whakapara rivers form the headwaters of the Wairua River. They begin in the eastern ranges between Whangarei and Kawakawa and join in the northern part of the Hikurangi Swamp. Both river catchments quickly turn from native forest to pastoral land, which is the dominant land use and bo...

Nottingham Stream is one of two main tributaries that converge to form the Huritini-Halswell River. It is a spring-fed plains stream, and one of the four sites monitored monthly in the Huritini-Halswell River catchment by Christchurch City Council for surface water quality. This site has been monito...

The Nukuhou River winds across a wide stretch of intensely farmed pastoral land.  This expanse of floodplain is bounded by rolling hill country with a mixture of drystock farming, forestry and indigenous forest cover.  The floodplain narrows as it moves north, bounded to the west by the Kererutahi F...

The water quality site on the Ohaeroa Stream is located under the SH22 Bridge. The riparian zone in the vicinity of the monitoring site is dense with barberry bushes, willows and manuka.

Ōhapi Creek flows to the northeast of Temuka.  It is classified as a spring-fed waterway and is a tributary of the Ōrāri River. Environment Canterbury currently samples water quality quarterly and macroinvertebrates are sampled once annually during summer as part of the aquatic ecosystem health moni...

Located East of Levin and in close proximity to the Tararua Ranges this is a popular picnicing and swimming spot during summer.

Kimberley Reserve is a recreational reserve and camping ground managed by Horowhenua District Council. It is extremely popular during the summer holiday period as a camping and picnicing destination.

Kirkcaldies Reserve is a recreational reserve managed by Horowhenua District Council. Water quality is generally good, however, rainfall events can cause runoff from farmland upstream and cause short term drops in water quality. As such it is recommended to avoid contact recreation during and immedi...