MONITORING OF THE RIVER RECHARGE WITH GROUNDWATER SCHEME Technical Report
- Author
- Martyn Cole, Tracy Clode, Kirsten Fraser, Michael Goff, Nathan Baker
- Year
- 2016
- Publisher / Organisation
- Kāpiti Coast District Council
- Pages
- 7
- Keywords
- Waikanae, River Recharge with Groundwater, RRwGW, monitoring, consent, Waikanae River, Kāpiti, groundwater, river recharge, adaptive management
- Summary
- Kāpiti Coast District Council’s award-winning River Recharge with Groundwater (RRwGW) scheme has now been monitored through two summers. The 78 pages of consent conditions required an extensive network of monitoring sites and supporting systems be set up focussing on four ecosystems: Waikanae borefield Seven small coastal streams 13 wetlands Waikanae River. This paper describes the setting up of that network and systems, the changes that have been made to the consents to recognise the practicalities both on-the-ground and in the monitoring framework, the results of the monitoring and how this is being reported to the regulator/ stakeholders/ public (e.g. a website for the 150 private well owners who are potentially affected), the workings of the innovative Adaptive Management Group, and what the future might hold for the optimisation of monitoring of RRwGW.