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---

name: lawa-nz

- description: Query Land Air Water Aotearoa (LAWA) public river-quality sites, swimming sites, and river indicator summaries through no-login Umbraco JSON endpoints. Use when the task involves NZ river quality, macroinvertebrate/community index data, E. coli/nutrient indicator bands, swim-site listings, or LAWA environmental monitoring site discovery. Read-only.

+ description: "Query Land Air Water Aotearoa (LAWA) public river-quality sites, swimming sites, and river indicator summaries through no-login Umbraco JSON endpoints. Use when the task involves NZ river quality, macroinvertebrate/community index data, E. coli/nutrient indicator bands, swim-site listings, or LAWA environmental monitoring site discovery. Read-only."

+ license: MIT

+ compatibility: "Requires Python 3.10+ and network access for live data"

+ metadata:

+ thecolab.category: "environment"

+ thecolab.source_owner: "Land Air Water Aotearoa"

+ thecolab.source_type: "official"

+ thecolab.auth: "none"

+ thecolab.access_mode: "public-api"

+ thecolab.data_class: "public"

+ thecolab.writes: "false"

+ thecolab.browser: "false"

+ thecolab.risk: "low"

+ thecolab.cache_ttl: "24h"

+ thecolab.schema_version: "1"

+ thecolab.skill_type: "public-api"

+ thecolab.pack: "nz-public-data"

+ thecolab.source_url: "https://www.lawa.org.nz"

+ thecolab.allowed_domains: "www.lawa.org.nz"

+ thecolab.last_verified: "2026-07-19"

+ thecolab.health: "healthy"

+ thecolab.maintainer: "@adam91holt"

---

# LAWA NZ

## Goal

Query public LAWA environmental monitoring site and indicator data with a deterministic read-only CLI.

## CLI

```bash

python3 skills/lawa-nz/scripts/cli.py river-sites --query waikato --json

python3 skills/lawa-nz/scripts/cli.py swim-sites --query beach --limit 10

python3 skills/lawa-nz/scripts/cli.py indicators --lawa-id ARC-00001 --json

```

Commands:

- `river-sites [--query TEXT] [--limit N] [--json]` - river-quality map sites and regions

- `swim-sites [--query TEXT] [--limit N] [--json]` - swimming site cards parsed from LAWA public response HTML

- `indicators [--lawa-id ID] [--parameter PARAM] [--limit N] [--json]` - river indicator summaries from LAWA public JSON

## Resources

- CLI: `scripts/cli.py`

- Smoke test: `scripts/smoke_test.py`

- API notes: `references/api-notes.md`

## Notes

LAWA endpoints are public/read-only but not a formal published API contract; keep calls modest and verify live data before relying on broad analysis.