Upper Catchment Monitoring
Spring Day
Wednesday 19th Monitoring
A frosty morning
Wednesday 5th August
Upper Catchment Update
Upper Catchment Data between 17/06 and 20/07/2020
What a beautiful frosty morning! Dean, Kaden, Jonathan, and I scrambled over the fence and up the catchment. At each site we collected data and gathered water samples. At 3a the water was sluggish and cold with a significant amount of sediment present, be careful how you collect the samples! We are testing the water not the water and sediment. There are sheep grazing the pasture.
Then we followed the sheep up the catchment dropped off bottles at 3B and continued up to 3C, scrambled under the fence and did the business at 3C, much less sediment.
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Site 3B Story
June 16th – 20th 2020 – Site 3B John McGlashan
Frosty calm start to the day.
In the 20th May, air temp increased from 6.5oC at 9.14 through to 11.1oC by midday, no wind but a slight build up by midday to 17.2 kph from NNE
No rain fall.
High wispy cloud, blue sky and around 20% CCV.
1mm of rainfall over the previous 5 days, no rainfall but the ground is damp and boggy.
Site 5 Update!
June 17th 2020 – Site 5 OGHS
Our team of Cara, Harriet and Ayla braved the increasingly cold weather at Site 5. With the north easterly breeze providing just enough waves to lap over the top of our gumboots we braved the cool water to check the depth, temperature, oxygen and salinity. Dissolved oxygen and salinity values were consistent as were the wet socks from the previous monitoring due to a significant increase in the water’s depth. A summary of nutrients is included below.
Bird life comprised mostly swans, paradise ducks, mallard/grey ducks and scaups. Swans in particular were present in large numbers. A solitary pukeko was spotted by Ayla.
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