Reports and Special Investigations
As well as the ongoing functions of monitoring the status of the region's groundwater resources, Marlborough District Council staff are working on one-off projects related to particular issues.
Current projects include:
- Hydrology of the Wairau Plain freshwater spring system.
- Updating the 1988 publication: Water and Soil resources of the Wairau Volume 2. The new edition will be launched in late July 2011 and is titled: Groundwaters of Marlborough.
- Groundwater chemistry of the Taylor River riparian aquifers.
Groundwater Related Reports
Marlborough District Council staff periodically release technical publications documenting investigations. In addition, consultants are commissioned from time to time to prepare reports requiring specialist expertise. Once these reports have been presented to Council they are available to the public.
Each year Marlborough District Council staff prepare separate annual state of the aquifers reports on groundwater quality and groundwater quantity. These reports are condensed into scorecards.
The reports are presented to the Marlborough District Council in July (groundwater quality) and October (groundwater quantity) each year. They are valid for the following 12 months before they are updated based on more recent information. Reports are set out below, in order of publication.
Annual Groundwater Monitoring Report Summary
Reports
2011
2010
National Survey of Pesticides in Groundwater 2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
Previous Reports
