Water Quality and Catchments Roundtable

From July-December 2014, six Roundtables gathered information and reported back to the Stakeholder Working Group (SWG). 

The Water Quality and Catchments Roundtable's aimed to

• identify levels of contaminants, nutrients, pathogens and sedimentation flowing into the Gulf from land
• impact on gulf ecology
• impact on users

 

This Roundtable's findings presented to the SWG can be viewed below. Please sign up for our monthly newsletters to stay in the loop.

 

Membership

SWG members Raewyn Peart, Conall Buchanan (co-chairs), Dirk Sieling, Tame Te Rangi and Alison Henry were members of the Water Quality and Catchments Roundtable, along with other invited participants with knowledge and expertise in farming, forestry, marine farming, recreational interests, environmental interests, commercial fishing and infrastructure supporting communities.

Member	Representing
Raewyn Peart	Roundtable co-chair/SWG
Conall Buchanan	Roundtable co-chair/SWG
Dirk Sieling	SWG
Tame Te Rangi	SWG
Stuart King	Landowner representative
Phillippa Fourie	Landowner representative
Gwyn Morgan	Landowner representative
Kelvin Meredith	Forestry
Jim Dollimore	Marine farming
Pauline Clarkin,	Iwi
Doug Elder	Recreational interests
Peter Jackson	Environmental interests
Garry Maskill	Infrastructure
Phil Clow	Commercial fishers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Advisors

The Water Quality and Catchments Roundtable was advised by experts including:

• an oceanographer, marine ecologist and sedimentation scientist from NIWA (the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research) 
• a Hauraki Gulf Marine Park scientist/researcher
• an advisor with mātauranga Māori expertise
• a water catchments scientist working in the dairy industry.

 

Technical Reports

Technical reports to the Water Quality & Catchment Roundtable are loaded below.

Document title	Type
Technical Report 1 - Collation of Background Information	PDF [1MB]
Technical Report 2 - Synthesis of Issues and Options	PDF [783KB]

 

Presentations

Advisor presentations to the Water Quality and Catchments Roundtable are loaded below.

 

Month	Document title	Author	Type
February 2015	Water Quality and Catchments Roundtable handover	Water Quality and Catchments Roundtable	PDF [1MB]
November 2014	Healthy Catchment; Healthy Harbour - A Coromandel Story	Emily O'Donnell Area Manager - Coromandel Waikato Regional Council	PDF [3MB]
October 2014	Waste Water Network Operation	Jonathon Piggot Operations Coordinator Watercare	PDF [3MB]
	Stormwater Management	Claudia Hellberg Stormwater Strategic Planning Team Leader Auckland Council	PDF [2MB]
September 2014	Urban Stormwater Impacts to Marine Receiving Environments	Earl Shaver Director Aqua Terra International Ltd	PDF [4MB]
	Managing the effects of on-site wastewater systems	Phil Brown Land and Water Advisory Manager  Auckland Council	PDF [1MB]
	Dairy industry good practice for enhancing water quality	Tom Stephens Water Quality Scientist DairyNZ	PDF [1MB]
	Compound specific stable isotopes (CSSI) and sediment source tracking in NZ	Dr Max Gibbs Water Quality Scientist NIWA	PDF [7MB]
	Terrigenous fine sediments - sources, fate and rates in the Hauraki Gulf	Mr Andrew Swales / Dr Max Gibbs Coastal and Estuarine Physical Processes Scientist / Water Quality Scientist NIWA	PDF [2MB]
August 2014	Hauraki Gulf Ecosystem: Productivity, Drivers and Stressors	Dr John Zeldis Principal Scientist - Marine Ecology NIWA	PDF [2MB]
	Plant nutrients in the Hauraki Rivers and Southern Firth of Thames	Bill Vant Ecologist Waikato Regional Council	PDF [1MB]
	Land based sediment impacts on estuarine environments	Dr Judi Hewitt Principal Scientist - Marine Ecology NIWA	PDF [1MB]