Northland Lakes Strategy Part II: update and implementation strategy
- Author
- Champion PD
- Year
- 2014
- Journal / Source
- NIWA Clint Report No. HAM2014-038
- Publisher / Organisation
- Prepared for Northland Regional Council
- Pages
- 35 pp
- Keywords
- dune lakes
- Summary
- Since the 2012 report, 12 lakes have been approved as ‘Outstanding waterbodies’ by the Northland Regional Council. Suggested changes to the Northland Lake Strategy 2012 include: changes to classification of lakes, with some lakes previously classed as Type 3 ‘window lakes’ now considered to be either Type 1 ‘perched lakes’ (e.g., Lake Ngatu) or Class 4 ‘dune contact lakes’ (e.g., Lake Te Kahika) incorporate re-evaluation of the threat status of endangered species into Lake Ecological Value score use trophic level index (TLI) and five year trends in this metric as a measure of eutrophication as opposed to chlorophyll a measures (chlorophyll a is included in TLI calculation). All relevant parameters required to calculate TLI are currently sampled by NRC.