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Real-time water quality model launches for Banks Peninsula harbours
Canterbury Regional Council (Environment Canterbury) has developed a predictive model that will give swimmers and other harbour users real-time information about water quality at popular sites around Whakaraupō Lyttelton and Akaroa harbours.
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