Surface waters of Waimea Inlet and Nelson Ha Yen: A preliminary assessment of quality
- 1 September 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research
- Vol. 11 (3) , 559-575
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00288330.1977.9515695
Abstract
Because of mounting inflows of sewage and organic industrial effluents in Nelson Haven, Waimea Inlet, and Tasman Bay [New Zealand], a water quality survey to obtain background information on 17 parameters from 28 sites was made during 1975. Some water samples collected near effluent discharges showed high levels of nitrate, total N, total P, volatile solids, ATP, heterotrophic potential, total bacteria, viable bacteria and coliform bacteria. Measurements were also made of temperature, salinity, dissolved O2, pH, suspended solids, and chlorophyll a; counts were made for confirmed fecal coliforms and confirmed Escherichia coli (Type I). Water from sites remote from effluent discharges showed characteristics of normal seawater. Water turbulence and tidal flushing appeared to be rapidly degrading, diluting and dispersing the organic contaminants.This publication has 15 references indexed in Scilit:
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