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Links and publications

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Freshwater fish
Freshwater fish identifications
Whitebait identification
Whitebait biology
DoC fish information
Creating passage for migrating fish

Other freshwater life

Stream invertebrate photos
Stream invertebrate identifications
Aquatic plant identifications
High risk aquarium plants (2.71 mb; 7 minutes @ 56 kbps)
Low risk aquarium plants (6.42 mb; 17 minutes @ 56 kbps)

Stream monitoring and management
Stream health monitoring and assessment kit (SHMAK)
Environment Waikato Clean Streams booklet
Understanding streambank stability (Australia)
Streambank stability: why, what, where, how? (Australia)

Riparian planting
Hamilton City Council's gully restoration guide
Tolerance of riparian plants to flooding
Planting under willows
Stabilising characteristics of native plants (New Zealand)

Stream restoration
Stream corridor restoration: principles, processes and practices
Reintroducing wood into streams (Australia)
Conducting watershed outreach campaigns (USA)
Social marketing for watershed programes (USA)

Stormwater management and sustainable urban design
Sustainable urban design
Installation and maintenance of rain gardens - do and don'ts
Treating stormwater with floating wetlands

Educational material
Rivers and Us programme for schools
Wai Care - Together for healthy waterways
Silent Streams story
Streams in the city
Waterlink - resources for teachers

Kids stuff
Learn how a river grows
Learn about streams in the city

Exercise to stop personal water pollution
What's wrong with this picture?
Wild over waterways
Up the Creek
Darby duck and the aquatic crusaders
Masterbug theatre
Bugosaurus explorus - build a bug
Word Search
Kids water activity book
Waterlink - adventures for kids
Freshwater insects
Freshwater fish

Other environmental orgainsations
Hamilton Environment Centre
New Zealand Freshwater Sciences Society
New Zealand Native Freshwater Fish Society
New Zealand Landcare Trust
Waikato Biodiversity Forum

Other stream and river care groups
Albermale Stream
Glenside Stream
Karori Stream
Oakley Creek
Otahu River
Owhiro Stream
Waikato River
Wakapuka River
Whangaehu River

Hamilton urban stream publications

Aldridge, B.M.T.A. and B.J. Hicks. 2006. The distribution of fish in the urban gully system streams of Hamilton City. CBER Contract Report No. 48. Client report prepared for Environment Waikato and Hamilton City Council. Centre for Biodiversity and Ecology Research, Department of Biological Sciences, School of Science and Engineering, The University of Waikato, Hamilton.

Clarkson, B.D.; McQueen, J.C. 2004. Ecological restoration in Hamilton City, North Island, New Zealand. 16th International Conference, Society for Ecological Restoration, August 24-26, 2004, Victoria, Canada.

Collier, K.J.; Clarkson, B.D.; Aldridge, B.M.T.A.; Hicks, B.J. 2008. Can urban streams be restored? Linking vegetation restoration with urban stormwater mitigation. Proceedings of the New Zealand Water and Wastes Association conference, 15-16 May, Rotorua.

Downs, T.; Clarkson, B.; Beard, C. 2000. Key ecological sites of Hamilton City. Site descriptions vols. I and II. Centre for Biodiversity and Ecology Research, The University of Waikato, Hamilton.

Hickey, C.; Macaskill, B.; Martin, M. Scarsbrook, M.; Williamson, B. 2001. Hamilton city stormwater: assessment of contaminant loads and impacts on the Waikato Rvier. NIWA client report HCC00210, NIWA, Hamilton.

Hicks, B.J. G.B. Reynolds, J.L. Laboyrie, and C.D.H. Hill. 2001. Ecological and physical characteristics of the Te Awa O Katapaki Stream, Flagstaff, Waikato. CBER Contract Report 13. Prepared for CDL Land (NZ) Limited. Centre for Biodiversity and Ecology Research, Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Waikato, Hamilton. 19 pp.

Peters, M. 2008. Urban waterways. Survey of  Hamilton residents. New Zealand Landcare Trust, Hamilton.


Smith, B. Diversity of adult aquatic insects in Hamilton urban streams and seepages. Technical report 2007/20, Environment Waikato, Hamilton.

Smith, P. 2005. Regional rivers water quality monitoring programme: Data report 2004. Environment Waikato, Hamilton.

Tonkin & Taylor 2001. Hamilton City Council municipal stormwater discharges. Assessment of environmental effects. Tonkin & Taylor, Hamilton.

Vant, W.; Smith, P. 2004. Trends in river water quality in the Waikato Region 1987-2002. Environment Waikato Technical Report 2004/05. Environment Waikato, Hamilton.

Wilding, T. K. 1998. The state of Hamilton streams. Environment Waikato Technical Report 1997/17, Environment Waikato, Hamilton.

Williamson, B. 2001. Streams and lakes in and near Hamilton and the issues for stormwater disposal. NIWA client report HCC00213, NIWA, Hamilton.