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Kia Ora,

 

Thank you for your email requesting information on the disestablishment of
monitoring at Kaiate Falls.

 

Kaiate Falls is located within the Western Bay of Plenty District and we
have been asked to respond.

 

Your request is below.

 

Dear Tauranga City Council,

When was the monitoring site at Kaiate falls disestablished and what
monitoring was being provided from this site while operational.

 

Please can you advise what sort of monitoring you mean.  Is this water
quality monitoring?

 

Note, if this is water quality monitoring, we will forward this to Bay of
Plenty Regional Council for response.

 

Thank you

 

Tracy Gaby
Executive Assistant Infrastructure Services
Kaiāwhina Matua

 

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Dear Sir / Madam

 

I refer to your official information request dated 25 June 2024 for
information pertaining to the monitoring of Kaiate Falls.

 

We have transferred your request to the Bay of Plenty Regional Council
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Good Morning,

 

RE: Acknowledgement of LGOIMA Request 24-0089

 

Thank you for your request for information dated 25^th June 2024 which was
received by the Bay of Plenty Regional Council (Council) via transfer from
Wsetern Bay of Plenty District Council on 9^th July 2024.

 

Your request for information is being considered as a request under the
Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987 (LGOIMA).

 

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which is 20 working days after the day on which we received your request
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Ngā Mihi │ Kind regards,

 

Carol

Carol Flynn
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Bay of Plenty Regional Council Toi Moana

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Good morning,

 

Your LGOIMA enquiry to Tauranga City Council has been transferred to Bay
of Plenty Regional Council as the agency involved in monitoring at the
site.

 

You asked:  “Dear Tauranga City Council, When was the monitoring site at
Kaiate falls disestablished and what monitoring was being provided from
this site while operational.”

 

The water quality monitoring at Kaiate falls has not been disestablished,
and is ongoing. The main monitoring site is called “Kaiate at Kaiate Falls
Rd” Site ID: EO564565. All data collected is publicly available on our
website in the Environmental Data Portal [1]Environmental data
(boprc.govt.nz) which is regularly updated as new data is collected. The
latest bathing water quality data for the site (E. coli) is also available
on LAWA at [2]Land, Air, Water Aotearoa (LAWA) - Kaiate at Kaiate Falls,
and we have some background information on Kaiate falls provided on this
BOPRC webpage [3]Waitao Catchment and Kaiate Falls (boprc.govt.nz) and
links to technical reports and investigations into water quality at the
site.

 

Generally the “Kaiate at Kaiate Falls Rd” site is monitored weekly for
bathing water standards (E. coli testing) for the summer swimming season
from October to March.  Our monitoring information is then supplied to Toi
Te Ora Public Health who are responsible for issuing health warnings if
unsafe levels of bacteria or toxic algae are detected. There is a
permanent public health warning at the site due to elevated levels of
bacteria E. coli. Other periodic monitoring includes for water quality
nutrients etc. at the “Waitao at Waitao Road EO451883” site, and
ecological monitoring (MCI, EPT, Taxa Richness) at the “Waitao at Kaiate
Confluence” EO467842.

 

The Bay of Plenty Regional Council supports landowners in the Waitao area
through the [4]Focus Catchments Programme with funding and technical
advice to help improve water quality. There is also a community-led Care
Group working in the area [5]Waitao Landcare Group - Bay Conservation
Alliance.

 

If you have any further questions, please contact the Bay of Plenty
Regional Council to discuss further.  

 

Regards,

Jackson

 

Jackson Efford
Principal Advisor, Land and Water
Bay of Plenty Regional Council Toi Moana

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Hi Ross have you got a photo or can you drop a pin or use Street view etc I'm not sure where/ what you mean? Cheers

Jackson Efford
Principal Advisor, Land and Water
Bay of Plenty Regional Council Toi Moana

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Ah thanks that’s helpful- I'm with you now..... hopefully not getting too technical in the response but that box originally held a continuous flow sensor/water level sensor to measure the 'volume' of water passing through, which allows us to calculate eg a water sample we manually collect weekly for contaminant concentration (like e. coli) with a flow volume, to calculate an overall "load" of contaminants (google concentration vs load for a better explanation of that).

We also used that continuous flow sensor in there to help draw a relationship in flow between this site and other tributary sites upstream where we did 'manual' stream gauging and testing, to help estimate where contaminants were coming from in the catchment (unfortunately there's no silver bullet to fix, it is a range of diffuse E. coli sources and no 'point source' to try and address).

This site was actually vandalised at least 3x over the summer (everything stolen) which is very disappointing but incredibly common with our sites across the region, so we now use a slightly different approach here with a much smaller Water Watch Monitor that is more secure/hidden and less likely to be vandalized- but provides us similar data we need for our summer monitoring programme.

Hopefully that helps clear everything up for your request?

Cheers

Jackson Efford
Principal Advisor, Land and Water
Bay of Plenty Regional Council Toi Moana

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E: [email address]
W: www.boprc.govt.nz
A: PO Box 364, Whakatāne 3158, New Zealand

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