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Review of Environmental Performance Indicators for Toxic Contaminants in the Environment

October 1998, AQTR37

This report presents the scenarios for the development of Environmental Performance Indicators for toxic contaminants for inclusion in the Ministry for the Environment's overall Environmental Performance Indicator (EPI) Programme.

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Contents

Executive summary

  1. Introduction
  2. EPI programme
  3. Toxic contaminants
  4. Toxic contaminants, media and monitoring
  5. Toxic contaminant indicator programmes and case studies
  6. Preferred indicators
  7. EPI monitoring process
  8. Further work/recommendations
  9. References
  10. Glossary

Appendices
A: Review of priority toxic contaminant lists
B: EPI toxic contaminant programmes: Case studies
C: Major sources of aquatic contaminants and environmental monitoring studies in New Zealand. (Source C Hickey, NIWA, 1998)
D: The U.S. geological survey's national water-quality assessment (NAWQA) programme for evaluating contaminants in tissues of freshwater biological organisms.

 

 

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