High-flying water scan set for 2021 in Wairarapa

A taxpayer-funded, multi-million dollar project to assess groundwater stocks throughout Wairarapa is set to take flight in 2021.
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Local and regional councils have devoted about $2.5 million into a scheme to use aerial electromagnetic [AEM] technology to find and measure hidden water aquifers in the Ruamahanga valley.
It is hoped that accessing these subterranean reserves may ease the strain on the valley's water supplies.
The work will piggyback off this year's scans in Hawke's Bay.
The Bay's regional council completed its scanning in February, but the results are yet to be published.
Hawke's Bay Regional Council chairperson Rex Graham said: "Water security is critical to the social, economic and environmental future of the region. Securing and managing our water starts with better understanding of what we have, how we use it and what future demand looks like".

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