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sites) (DOC 2011). Section 50 of Te Roroa Claims Settlement Act 2008 establishes TeTarehu, a classification that overlies the majority of the land in the entire Waipoua Rivercatchment.In particular, the Settlement Act Te Tarehu acknowledges the traditional, cultural, historicand spiritual associations of Te Roroa with the forest, while leaving day-to-daymanagement with the Department. ….. The Settlement Act also requires decision makersto have particular regard to the views of Te Roroa in respect of Te Tarehu values andprotection principles. (DOC 2011, p. 11)These values and protection principles are documented in Appendix 2.3 Water quality, water quantity and ecosystem healthThe Waipoua River has remained in a near pristine state, due to:its remoteness and the surrounding steep topography making logging difficult in theearly 1900s, the establishment of the Waipoua Forest Sanctuary in 1952the upper and mid catchment being identified as an ‘Outstanding river’ in the RWSP.Current monitoring shows that water quality and ecosystem health are excellent in the midand upper catchment. However, there is very little data for the lower reaches of thecatchment. There is also limited data on changes in water quality over time and waterquantity.3.1 Current monitoring of the RiverNorthland Regional Council currently undertakes the following monitoring in the WaipouaRiver:River Water Quality Monitoring Network (RWQMN) established in 1996. 36 riversites throughout Northland encompassing 22 river catchments are monitored monthlyfor a range of parameters, including temperature, dissolved oxygen, pH, water clarity,nutrients and bacterial levels. This monitoring includes one site in the Waipoua Rivercatchment located at the bridge on SH12, which was added to the Network in 2002.Annual reports are available here:Stream invertebrate monitoring at RWQMN sites since 1997. Every site in theNetwork is monitored once a year in summer. Monitoring at the one Network site onWaipoua River started in 2004. Annual reports are available here:http://www.nrc.govt.nz/Resource-Library-Summary/Environmental-Monitoring/Stateof-the-Environment-Monitoring/http://www.nrc.govt.nz/Resource-Library-Summary/Research-and-reports/Riversand-streams/Periphyton monitoring at 25 of the RWQMN sites started in 2007. Every summeralgal biomass and species identification has been sampled at the Waipoua River site.20
Stream habitat assessments at RWQMN sites since 2004. Assessments aretypically carried out every second year. The Waipoua River site has been assessedin 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2010 and 2012. Reports are available here:Recreational Water Quality Programme (2002/03 - present). The programme iscoordinated by Northland Regional Council in partnership with Northland Health andthe region’s three District Councils. The aim of the programme is to provideinformation on bacterial levels at popular freshwater and coastal swimming sites inNorthland to allow the public to make an informed decision about where to swim.One location in the Waipoua Catchment, near the Camping Ground, has beenmonitored as part of this programme from December 2005. Monitoring reports andmore information can be found at:http://www.nrc.govt.nz/Resource-Library-Summary/Research-and-reports/Riversand-streams/http://www.nrc.govt.nz/Resource-Library-Summary/Research-andreports/Recreational-swimming-programme/http://www.nrc.govt.nz/Living-in-Northland/At-the-beach/Swimming-water-quality/Hydrological monitoring. NRC installed an automatic telemetered water levelrecorder in Waipoua River at the SH12 bridge in June 2007. Metservice operate arainfall station at the Waipoua Visitor Centre, where daily rainfall is manuallyrecorded. As well as specific monitoring programmes some ad hoc monitoring as also beencarried out to check compliance with resource consent conditions and to investigateenvironmental incidents.Together, the information is central to assessing the state of the River. The data obtainedthrough these programmes and consent monitoring has been used to provide an overview ofwater quality and ecosystem health in the River. Figure 4 on the next page shows the sitescurrently monitored in the Waipoua River catchment.21
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