West coast water quality monitoring map

Water quality has been monitored at 25 popular swimming beaches in our Region since 1991. These are broken into three broad zones: the Hauraki Gulf, Coromandel East Coast and West Coast zones.

Find out about water quality in the West Coast zone by clicking on one of the monitoring sites on the map below or using the text navigation.

For each site on the West Coast, we show how good the water quality is for:

contact recreation.

We also show how each site compares with the others on the West Coast for contact recreation. (Up to map)

Use our map to check out coastal water quality in the Hauraki Gulf and Coromandel East Coast zones.

Graph data based on samples collected during 2008 to 2009.