THE NATIONAL RECORD · REGULATOR'S DATA · OFFICIAL INFORMATION ACT
Every water supply on the regulator's record, zone by zone.
Taumata Arowai, the Water Services Authority, is New Zealand's drinking water regulator, and every supplier reports its distribution-zone results to it. We asked for the lot under the Official Information Act. What came back is an extract: 397 supplies and 595 zones, with samples from February 2025 and January to March 2026, plus the Authority's register of 179 exceedances that suppliers notified for events between December 2024 and August 2026. This page is that extract, searchable, with every figure exactly as the regulator holds it.
COVERAGE
What the regulator could extract.
The extract is, in practice, a chlorine-and-microbial dataset. The three numbers that frame everything below.
EVERY ZONE
Find your supply.
Type a town, supply or zone name. Chlorine is the Authority's adjusted value in the unit the supplier submitted (a "less than" result counts as 0). E. coli and total coliforms count results at 1 or more per 100 mL. Click a row with notifications to see each one.
| Supply | Zone | Chlorine, February 2025 + Jan-Mar 2026 | E. colidetections / samples | Total coliformsdetections / samples | Notified exceedancesDecember 2024 to August 2026 | Council report | ||
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Source: Water Services Authority - Taumata Arowai, Official Information Act response CAS-02102-L8X2C3, letter dated 3 Sep 2026. Statistics use the Authority's "Adjusted Sample Value" (a "less than" result becomes 0, a "greater than" result is held at its ceiling). Units are shown exactly as submitted and never converted; most chlorine rows are mg/L, some ppm or g/m³, and 5 zones (Albury Rural, Allandale, Mangapai, Waipatu, Wanaka Airport) carry chlorine rows the supplier labelled "MPN/100mL". 7 zones (Duvauchelle; Hook/Waituna; Lower Waihao; Otaio/Makikihi; Pigeon Bay; Waimate; Wainui) are continuous online analyser feeds, which is why their sample counts run to the thousands. 7 zones key some E. coli and total coliform results between 0 and 1 where their lab reports "less than 1"; those are never counted as detections. Nothing is de-duplicated: the extract has no sampling-site or time column, so identical rows on one day may be different sites. The chlorine maximum is withheld for 5 zones (Foxton, Levin, Shannon, Tirau, Tokomaru) where the value as held reads as a data-entry error rather than a water result; it stays withheld until the supplier confirms. E. coli detection counts are withheld for 6 Rotorua lake schemes (Hamurana, Kaharoa, Reporoa, Okareka, Rotoma, Rotoiti) whose rows are recorded as exactly 1 MPN/100 mL with no matching notification in the register, while the council's own release (August 2025 to August 2026) shows no E. coli detection on any of its schemes; they stay withheld until the council confirms what those rows are. 13 rows are supplies or zones that appear only in the register, with no sample rows in the extract. Chlorine's NZ maximum acceptable value is 5 mg/L as Cl2; E. coli's is less than 1 in 100 mL of sample.
THE NOTIFIED EXCEEDANCES REGISTER
179 notifications, 60 supplies, by determinand.
This is the Authority's own register of exceedances that suppliers notified, events dated December 2024 to August 2026. Each entry is a supply, a zone, a determinand and two dates. There is no measured value, no unit, no supplier name and no context text against any of them, so the size of an exceedance cannot be read from this source. The busiest supplies: Norsewood 30, North Bruce Rural 16, Richardson Rural 14, Moa Flat 12, Puriri 8, Stirling 7, Ohai/Nightcaps 6, Auckland 6, Bushy Creek 5, Kerepehi/Waitakaruru 5.
Aluminium
56 notifications · 9 supplies · 19 Dec 2024 to 23 Jun 2026
Written in the register as "Aluminium" 56. No verified limit is held in our table for this determinand, so none is quoted.
- North Bruce Rural · 16 · 19 Dec 2024 to 25 May 2026
all 16 dates
19 Dec 2024, 23 Dec 2024, 29 Dec 2024, 6 Jan 2025, 6 Feb 2025, 31 Mar 2025, 6 Apr 2025, 11 Jun 2025, 15 Jul 2025, 29 Jul 2025, 19 Aug 2025, 30 Oct 2025, 26 Nov 2025, 7 Apr 2026, 25 May 2026, 25 May 2026 - Moa Flat (Moa Flat Rural) · 12 · 6 Jan 2025 to 11 Jun 2026
all 12 dates
6 Jan 2025, 23 Sep 2025, 7 Oct 2025, 13 Oct 2025, 18 Oct 2025, 4 Nov 2025, 5 Jan 2026, 8 Jan 2026, 21 Jan 2026, 24 Feb 2026, 2 Jun 2026, 11 Jun 2026 - Richardson Rural (Kaka Point Township, Richardson Rural South) · 10 · 29 Dec 2024 to 24 Mar 2026
all 10 dates
29 Dec 2024, 30 Dec 2024, 3 Mar 2025, 6 May 2025, 12 Jun 2025, 13 Oct 2025, 10 Nov 2025, 26 Nov 2025, 8 Mar 2026, 24 Mar 2026 - Puriri · 7 · 6 Mar 2025, 17 Mar 2025, 3 Dec 2025, 4 Feb 2026, 3 Mar 2026, 8 Apr 2026, 13 May 2026
- Stirling (South Bruce Rural) · 7 · 23 Dec 2024, 22 Jan 2025, 19 Mar 2025, 31 Mar 2025, 6 Apr 2025, 14 May 2025, 18 Mar 2026
- Balmoral/Tuapeka (Tuapeka West Rural) · 1 · 18 Dec 2025
- Hamilton (Hamilton City) · 1 · 19 Jun 2025
- Omakau/Ophir (Omakau) · 1 · 8 Oct 2025
- Waiouru Military Camp · 1 · 23 Jun 2026
Manganese
40 notifications · 5 supplies · 5 Jan 2025 to 30 Jul 2026
Written in the register as "manganese" 40. No verified limit is held in our table for this determinand, so none is quoted.
- Norsewood · 29 · 5 Jan 2025 to 30 Jul 2026
all 29 dates
5 Jan 2025, 10 Jan 2025, 26 Jan 2025, 26 Jan 2025, 13 Feb 2025, 16 Feb 2025, 21 Feb 2025, 26 Feb 2025, 5 Mar 2025, 18 Mar 2025, 19 Mar 2025, 27 Mar 2025, 9 Apr 2025, 29 Apr 2025, 8 May 2025, 9 Jan 2026, 20 Jan 2026, 26 Jan 2026, 26 Jan 2026, 28 Jan 2026, 28 Jan 2026, 2 Feb 2026, 9 Feb 2026, 22 Feb 2026, 13 May 2026, 18 May 2026, 25 Jun 2026, 12 Jul 2026, 30 Jul 2026 - Kerepehi/Waitakaruru · 5 · 16 Jan 2025, 13 May 2025, 22 Jul 2025, 31 Jul 2025, 29 Aug 2025
- Milton · 4 · 5 Sep 2025, 11 Sep 2025, 25 Sep 2025, 26 Sep 2025
- Inglewood · 1 · 18 Jan 2025
- Tatua Co-operative Dairy Co Ltd (The Tatua Co-operative Dairy Company) · 1 · 24 Mar 2025
E. coli
48 notifications · 32 supplies · 8 Jan 2025 to 15 Jul 2026
Written in the register as "e. coli (MPN)" 28, "e. coli (CFU)" 20. NZ maximum acceptable value: Less than 1 in 100 mL of sample.
- Auckland (Buckland, High Head, Hillsborough, Swanson, Whenuapai) · 6 · 17 Feb 2025, 9 Sep 2025, 17 Sep 2025, 3 Feb 2026, 3 Feb 2026, 4 Apr 2026
- Bushy Creek (Bushy Creek Rural) · 5 · 13 Feb 2025, 12 May 2025, 23 Aug 2025, 23 Nov 2025, 25 Feb 2026
- Richardson Rural (Kaka Point Township) · 4 · 3 Feb 2025, 27 Dec 2025, 8 Jan 2026, 8 Jan 2026
- Brunswick 4 · 2 · 9 Feb 2026, 9 Feb 2026
- Hokitika · 2 · 11 Feb 2025, 15 Jul 2026
- McLaren Falls Park · 2 · 14 Nov 2025, 16 Jan 2026
- Pelorus Bridge (Kahikatea Flat) Campground · 2 · 1 Dec 2025, 15 Dec 2025
- Christchurch (Rawhiti) · 1 · 12 Feb 2026
- Christchurch Prisons (Christchurch Womens Prison) · 1 · 3 Jul 2025
- Cissy Bay · 1 · 9 Mar 2025
- Clydevale Village Waterworks (Clydevale Private) · 1 · 11 Jan 2026
- Collingwood · 1 · 20 Jan 2026
- Eighty Eight Valley Rural · 1 · 24 Apr 2025
- Hakataramea Valley Rural · 1 · 14 May 2026
- Hamilton (Hamilton City) · 1 · 3 Oct 2025
- Hautope Water Scheme (Hautope) · 1 · 13 Oct 2025
- Highbank Water Society Supply · 1 · 5 May 2025
- Hororata · 1 · 26 Jun 2025
- Kingseat Community · 1 · 2 Dec 2025
- New Plymouth (Bell Block) · 1 · 8 Apr 2026
- Oamaru (Oamaru, Hampden) · 1 · 12 Jun 2025
- Ohau Alpine Village · 1 · 12 Feb 2025
- Otaio/Makikihi Rural (Otaio/Makikihi) · 1 · 12 Feb 2025
- Paeroa (Kaimanawa) · 1 · 19 May 2025
- Para Para · 1 · 3 Jun 2026
- Reefton · 1 · 4 Mar 2026
- RNZAF Base Woodbourne · 1 · 8 Jan 2025
- Taharoa Village · 1 · 5 May 2026
- Te Kaha · 1 · 15 Jul 2025
- Tokarahi/Livingstone · 1 · 30 Sep 2025
- Tukurua · 1 · 6 Mar 2025
- Wellington Region Bulk Water (Kelburn) · 1 · 17 Dec 2025
Dichloroacetic acid
16 notifications · 5 supplies · 17 Feb 2025 to 29 Apr 2026
Written in the register as "dichloroacetic acid" 16. NZ maximum acceptable value 0.05 mg/L.
- Ohai/Nightcaps (Nightcaps, Wairio) · 6 · 21 Feb 2025, 24 Feb 2025, 10 Mar 2026, 10 Mar 2026, 10 Mar 2026, 10 Mar 2026
- Marton (Marton Township) · 4 · 13 Nov 2025, 30 Nov 2025, 1 Apr 2026, 29 Apr 2026
- Dovedale Rural · 3 · 17 Feb 2025, 19 May 2025, 13 Feb 2026
- Little River · 2 · 22 Jan 2026, 29 Jan 2026
- Nelson · 1 · 14 Aug 2025
Lead
13 notifications · 9 supplies · 7 Aug 2025 to 13 Aug 2026
Written in the register as "lead" 13. NZ maximum acceptable value 0.01 mg/L.
- Waihemo (Waihemo, Goodwood Rural, Waihemo, Palmerston Town) · 4 · 12 Jul 2026, 12 Jul 2026, 20 Jul 2026, 20 Jul 2026
- Lower Waitaki, Rural (Lower Waitaki) · 2 · 13 Jul 2026, 13 Jul 2026
- Awatere (Awatere South) · 1 · 29 Jan 2026
- Blenheim · 1 · 12 Jan 2026
- Lake Dunstan (Alexandra) · 1 · 17 Dec 2025
- Paekakariki · 1 · 13 Aug 2026
- Paeroa · 1 · 19 Jan 2026
- Puriri · 1 · 7 Aug 2025
- Twizel · 1 · 8 Feb 2026
Chlorate
4 notifications · 3 supplies · 28 Jan 2025 to 5 Mar 2026
Written in the register as "chlorate" 4. No verified limit is held in our table for this determinand, so none is quoted.
- Kaingaroa, Chatham Is. · 2 · 28 Jan 2025, 5 Mar 2026
- Norsewood · 1 · 4 Mar 2025
- Piopio · 1 · 11 May 2025
Chlorine
1 notification · 1 supply · 18 Jun 2025
Written in the register as "chlorine" 1. NZ maximum acceptable value 5 mg/L as Cl2.
- Beachlands Networks · 1 · 18 Jun 2025
Vinyl chloride
1 notification · 1 supply · 30 Jan 2026
Written in the register as "vinyl chloride" 1. No verified limit is held in our table for this determinand, so none is quoted.
- Waverley · 1 · 30 Jan 2026
Source: the "Notified Exceedances" tab of Official Information Act response CAS-02102-L8X2C3, Water Services Authority - Taumata Arowai, letter dated 3 Sep 2026. Determinand names are grouped only by spelling ("e. coli (MPN)" and "e. coli (CFU)" as E. coli); nothing is reclassified. Dates are the register's event dates. Where our verified table of New Zealand limits holds no entry for a determinand, no limit is quoted. 13 supplies in the register (Bushy Creek, Cissy Bay, Clydevale Village Waterworks, Hakataramea Valley Rural, Hautope Water Scheme, Highbank Water Society Supply, McLaren Falls Park, Ohau Alpine Village, Para Para, Pelorus Bridge, Puriri, RNZAF Base Woodbourne, Taharoa Village) have no sample rows anywhere in the extract.
Detections on the sample sheets with no matching notification
The register and the sample sheets do not always agree. These E. coli results of 1 or more per 100 mL sit on the sample sheets with no E. coli notification for the same zone within three days either side. Either the notification was not made, or it is not in the extract; the Authority's own caveat allows for both.
- Tukurua: 38 MPN/100mL on 26 Feb 2026
- Tukurua: 32 MPN/100mL on 26 Feb 2026
- Punakaiki: 31.5 MPN/100mL on 9 Feb 2026
- Te Aputa Water Supply Society Inc (Te Aputa Water Supply inc): 3 MPN/100mL on 20 Feb 2026
- Punakaiki: 2 MPN/100mL on 5 Jan 2026
- Kaingaroa, Chatham Is.: 1 MPN/100mL on 23 Feb 2026
WHAT IS NOT HERE
What the extract never measures.
Saying what a dataset does not contain matters as much as what it does. These determinands have no measured result on either sample sheet, for any of the 595 zones.
YOUR ADDRESS
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The free water check reads your address and sends the report for your supply. Where the library holds the council's own release, that is what it is written from; 19 council reports are live and 0 more are in progress. The rest of the country is here, on the regulator's record, until its council responds.