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Scenario Builder for Waikato Rivers

The Scenario Builder for Waikato Rivers is similar to our national-scale Scenario Builder for Rivers WebApp. It uses more detailed land use information available for the Waikato region so that scenarios more specific to the region can be modelled.

You can use the Scenario Builder for Waikato Rivers WebApp to:

  • visualise the current state of water quality (nitrogen and phosphorus concentrations and estimated periphyton biomass) at 119 monitoring sites in the Waikato region.
  • predict the “reference” water quality conditions at the site
  • see the composition of land use in the catchment and the estimated relative contribution of different land uses in the catchment to contaminant loads
  • model catchment management scenarios of land mitigation or land use change (or combinations of both) to predict how reducing contaminant losses from existing land use and/or changing land use within the catchment will affect the water quality in the river.

Download the Scenario Builder for Waikato Rivers User Guide

Scenario Builder for Waikato Rivers WebApp

Exploring water quality outcomes of catchment management scenarios

This WebApp was developed with funding from Waikato Regional Council.