Appendix-3_Logan-Brown_s87F-Report_Water-Quality-and-Aquatic-Ecology_28-April-2023.pdf [pdf, 886 KB]
...unlikely to meet the water clarity standards in the respective regional plans. An example of this is visual clarity within the Waitohu catchment. Monitoring in the Waitohu Stream at Norfolk Crescent has a 5 year median distance for visual clarity as 1.01 metres,5 whereas the PNRP has a target clarity of above 1.6 metres at above the 50th percentile flow. As I discuss below, the fact that values (for water quality) are already compromised is not a sufficient or good reason to allow...