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
- Introduction
- EPI programme
- Toxic contaminants
- Toxic contaminants, media and monitoring
- Toxic contaminant indicator programmes and case studies
- Preferred indicators
- EPI monitoring process
- Further work/recommendations
- References
- 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.
