Wai Care water quality monitoring

Wai Care is currently updating its website. A new website will be available soon. In the meantime, use this Auckland Council webpage for information on the programme and monitoring data.

About Wai Care

Wai Care is Auckland’s community-based waterway monitoring and restoration programme.

It helps community groups, landowners and volunteers look after and improve the health of local streams. It is also available to primary, intermediate and secondary school students.

We provide free training, equipment and guidance so participants can:

• monitor water quality
• assess stream habitats
• learn how to promote and help native plant restoration through:
  • planting along the edges of rivers, streams and wetlands
  • waterway clean-ups
  • pest control.

Wai Care helps communities to:

• understand their catchments (water bodies)
• improve freshwater ecosystems
• contribute to healthier waterways across the region.

Monitoring data

How to submit monitoring data

Community groups can email waicare.monitoring@aucklandcouncil.govt.nz to submit monitoring results to the Wai Care team. In your email, include:

• your group's name
• the monitoring site
• recorded measurements.

How to access monitoring data

Water quality data cannot be viewed currently while the new Wai Care website is being built.

Email the Wai Care team on waicare.monitoring@aucklandcouncil.govt.nz with any urgent requests.