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Science Centres: Freshwater

Completed projects on the web

Mitigating Contaminant Effects in Urban Aquatic Habitats

Website (links to old site)

This was a Foundation for Research and Technology funded project (FRST contract: C01X0012) that was completed in 2003.

The programme was to develop new tools for managing road runoff, stormwater flows and chemical contaminants in human settlements to ensure that urban streams and estuaries are sustained as healthy, diverse and resilient ecosystems.

Newsletters (S.W.A.T, StormWater And Transport) were issued on a regular basis and are still available online.

S.W.A.T.

Other sites related to the project are:

Workshop I presentations (Powerpoint)
Workshop II presentations (PDF)
An article in Water and Atmosphere
Swats up Doc? The effects of StormWater and Transport on urban streams and esturies. Water and Atmosphere 7(3) 1999

Stormwater in NIWA online publications

Some recent articles about urban stormwater are listed below along with a brief desciption and the NIWA office undertaking the work.

Water Resources Update

Stream restoration in Christchurch

No 15, 2006
Park streams get a facelift
Christchurch

A powerful urban planning tool

No 15, 2006
USC model of sediment transport for the Upper Waitemata Harbour, contaminated urban sediments
Hamilton

Contaminants in urban stormwater: how much from where?

No 10, 2005
Monitoring and modelling of water quality and quantity
Auckland

New urban stormwater guide

No 10, 2005
Reports on a set of guidelines for study of urban streams, based on a user workshop
Guidelines published as a pdf - CLICK HERE (links to old site)
Hamilton, Wellington

DIY flood helps urban stream restoration

No 12, 2005
Artificial flooding in an urban stream created to test effects of different instream and riparian vegetation management strategies on flooding.
Christchurch