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Overall Grade
WAT E R S E C U R I T Y
Our land use practices and land
development supports communities
and taonga species having access to
life sustaining supplies of water.
TA U R A & I N D I C AT O R S
Communities are prosperous, as shown
by high levels of employment, housing
affordability, gross domestic product
and income equality.
E X P E R I E N C E
We have a flourishing and nuturing
connection with the rivers and we are
empowered to pursue and maintain
our positive interaction.
Land use and development
practices support water bodies
that have water that is safe to
physically interact with.
WAT E R Q U A L I T Y
Kai are healthy, and have a strong
whakapapa, are safe to eat, locally
abundant and can be harvested according
to our traditional practices.
K A I
Aquatic life has access to
healthy habitats protected from
adverse effects due to land use
and contaminants.
E C O L O G I C A L I N T E G R I T Y
Communities, businesses and
individuals are engaged in
comprehensive contaminant control
and rehabilitation to achieve the
Vision and Strategy.
E F F O R T
Our sites of significance are forever
recognised and celebrated as areas of
historical and cultural importance and
safe for us to interact with and support
a healthy Awa.
S I T E S O F S I G N I F I C A N C E
E C O N OM Y
C OM PA S S
M A I N S T E M T R I B U TA R I E S
L A K E R O T O R O A
( H A M I LT O N )
Water quality is safe for swimming only in
the mainstem in bathing season;
macroinvertebrate indicators reflect degraded
conditions; good access and signage on
mainstem and lake, efforts underway to
improve fish passage.
Lake Rotoroa ecological integrity and
water quality degraded.
M A I N S T E M
Water quality and clarity are unsafe for
swimming in mainstem and many tributaries;
many lakes have good access and riparian
vegetation but low water quality;
diverse kai species in tributaries.
T R I B U TA R I E S
L A K E N G A R O T O L A K E R O T O P I K O
C
C+
B
C
C-
C
C
C
C-
A C-
B-
B-
C-
C+
C
C+
D
C+
C-
C-
D
B-
D
C+
B-
C
C+
C+
C+
C-
B-
C
C-
C+
C+
C
D
C
C-
C+
C+
C
C+
C+
C+
C+
C-
D
C C
C
B-
C+
C+
C B
C+
C
B+
C
C
C-
D
B
C+
C
C+
C+ C-
C+
C+
C
C
C+
C
B-
D
C+
C
D
D
B D
C
C-
C-
C-
B D
C+
C-
Delivers in full on the Vision
and Strategy aspirations for a
healthy Waikato River.
Excellent rating.
Delivers on only some of the
Vision and Strategy aspirations
for a healthy Waikato River.
Low rating.
Does not deliver on the Vision
and Strategy aspirations for a
healthy Waikato River.
Poor rating.
Delivers in part on the Vision
and Strategy aspirations for a
healthy Waikato River.
Good rating.
B
D
C
A
M I D WA I K AT O
WA I PA
O H A K U R I
T U A K A U
H U N T LY
N G A R U AWA H I A
H A M I LT O N
K A R A P I R O
P U TA R U R U
H U K A F A L L S
AT I A M U R I
A R A P U N I
T O K O R O A
T E K U I T I
O T O R O H A N G A
L A K E
TA U P O
M A I N S T E M
L OW E R WA I K AT O
T R I B U TA R I E S
The water clarity degrades swimming
all year, but bug level safe in bathing
season; diverse native fish
(whitebait & eel fishing) but
pest fish prevalent, extensive drainage and
flood control degrades ecological integrity;
large wetlands present.
Water quality is safe for swimming in
the mainstem but not most tributaries; six
hydrolakes with good access support recreation;
cumulative effects of farm inputs increasing;
high degree of groundwater allocation;
eels manually transferred from below Karapiro;
high level of riparian fencing on dairy farms.
T R I B U TA R I E S
M A I N S T E M
O H A K U R I T O K A R A P I R O
Two additional taura were assessed at the whole catchment /regional scale only, due to
lack of finer scale information. There was insufficient information to score Sites of Significance.
M A I N S T E M
Water quality is safe for swimming and good trout
fishing; geothermal inputs have contaminated lake
sediments and some tributaries; there are many high
ecological quality streams but nutrients
levels are poor; high level of riparian fencing on
dairy farms; Ngahewa has degraded water quality.
T R I B U TA R I E S
L A K E N G A H E WA
H U K A T O O H A K U R I
T E P U A H A
L A K E
WH A N G A P E
Shallow riverine lakes have algal blooms,
very poor clarity, pest fish, have lost
submerged plants and kai species are
degraded. Rehabiliatation plans initiated.
L A K E
WA I K A R E
L A K E
WA A H I
D
D
B D
C
C-
B-
C+
C+ A-
C+
B-
B+
C+
C+
C C
B
B-
C+
C+
B+
C
C
C+
C-
C+
C
*
*
* The upper Waikato River catchment grades are
draft and subject to ongoing work between
Ngati Tuwharetoa, Raukawa, Te Arawa River Iwi
and the project team