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Lakepedia spotlight on Rotorua s lakes: good, but could be better
22 Feb, 2021 05:00 AM
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Lake Tikitapu. Photo / Graham Jordan
A freshwater enthusiast in Romania has studied decades of data on Rotorua s lakes and found water quality is on an upward trajectory, with Lake Rotorua most improved.
But the outlook closer to home remains sober with some experts saying there is a long way to go.
Catalin Trif, a project manager based in Cluj-Napoca in Romania s northwest, founded his passion project Lakepedia in 2015 and said it was born out of a fascination for lakes and rivers .
The website, an online encyclopaedia of lakes, is run by Trif and one other volunteer.
The trophic level index is a value derived from four factors: water clarity, and the amount of chlorophyll, phosphorus and nitrogen in the water. The lower the value, out of zero to five, the higher quality the water. Trif said the data showed the overall quality of the Rotorua lakes had increased from an average TLI of 3.8 between 2001 and 2010 to an average of 3.6 in the decade between 2011 and 2020. “Lake Rotorua registered the biggest improvement, with a 0.5 reduction of its TLI, from 4.8 to 4.3. In terms of hitting the TLI targets, last year was the best since 2015, with four of the 12 lakes hitting their TLI targets.”
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