Appendix A # Location Class Important Values Concerns Water Desired Quality Out- Classifi- come cation Wairau Catchment 19 Lower Opawa Medium Trout and whitebait Reduction in water F, FS E River- from spawning. quality from adjacent Taylor Migratory bird habitat. urban landuse. River/ Opawa Recreational area - Stock pollution and River confluence boating, canoeing, nature damage to riparian to Opawa River/ watch, picnicking and margin. Wairau River passive. Instream barriers to fish confluence passage at Wairau River Fishing - eel, trout, whitebait, black flounder. confluence. Urban recreational Groundwater level landscape. change. Fish habitat. Sewage discharge High Lower Wairau River levels. Stormwater discharges. 20 Opawa Loop Medium Urban recreation. Weed. F, CR, FS E Landscape. Low dissolved oxygen levels. Low flows with very low velocities. 21 Lower Taylor Medium Fishing - trout, eel, black Development of riparian F, AE, CR E River from Taylor flounder. margin. Dam to Opawa Recreational area - Reduction in water River confluence boating, rafting, canoeing, quality from adjacent including Doctors swimming, picnicking, urban landuse and Creek and Taylor nature watch, passive. landfill. Dam Fish habitat - trout Low flows due to out of spawning, eel, black stream use. flounder, koura. Groundwater level Urban recreational and change. aesthetic landscape. Stormwater discharges. Taylor Dam bird habitat - black swans, mallard, Australasian coot, NZ scaup. Bird habitat - waterfowl, grey teal, little black shag, pukeko, coot and shoveller duck. 22 Taylor River Low to Fishing limited by Low flows due to out of F M upstream of Medium ephemeral flow conditions stream use. Taylor Dam, - eel, trout. Stock pollution and Fairhall River, Recreational area - damage to riparian Omaka River and picnicking, nature watch margin. Mill Stream and passive. Bird habitat - waterfowl and upland game. Braided river habitat. Trout spawning habitat. App A - 7