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River and stream water quality and ecology in the Wellington region: State and trends Wellington City Council. 2003. Northern growth area – A framework for growth management. Wellington City Council, Wellington. Wellington Regional Council. 1995. Regional Policy Statement for the Wellington region. Wellington Regional Council, Publication No. WRC/RP-G-95/28, Wellington. Wellington Regional Council. 1999. Regional Freshwater Plan for the Wellington region. Wellington Regional Council, Publication No. WRC/RP-G-99/31, Wellington. Wilcock B, Biggs B, Death R, Hickey C, Larned S and Quinn J. 2007. Limiting nutrients for controlling undesirable periphyton growth. Report No. HAM2007-006 prepared for Horizons Regional Council by NIWA, Hamilton. WGN_DOCS-#1100598-V3 PAGE 127 OF 160
River and stream water quality and ecology in the Wellington region: State and trends Acknowledgements We would like to acknowledge and thank the following Greater Wellington staff for their contributions to this report: Mike Gordon and Mike Thompson provided valuable hydrology data and interpretation; and Stephen Thawley assisted with providing the resource consent information presented in this report. We would also like to thank: Dr Deborah Ballantine (NIWA) for advice on the water quality trend analyses and for providing water quality data for the five National River Water Quality Network sites located in the Wellington region; Dr Mike Joy (Massey University) for providing fish data from the Whareroa Stream, advice on the fish data analyses, and for reviewing an early draft of the fish section; Maree Clark (Horizons Regional Council) for providing regional water quality data sets collated as part of the Land and Water New Zealand initiative; and Dr Olivier Ausseil (Aquanet Consulting Ltd) for valuable technical support and proving comments on a draft version of the report. PAGE 128 OF 160 WGN_DOCS-#1100598-V3
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