Rivers and changing coastlines laid down layers of gravel and fine sediment across Hawke’s Bay. Where groundwater is confined beneath them, natural pressure makes it rise. HBay is that artesian water, bottled in Hastings, close to the source.
On the east coast of New Zealand’s North Island, rivers carried gravel down from the ranges for thousands of years. Beneath the Heretaunga Plains that gravel now holds the water HBay is drawn from.
HBay is tested by Hill Laboratories, an independent New Zealand laboratory. Sample results: pH 7.3, total dissolved solids 113 mg/L, calcium 18.7 mg/L.
