Wednesday, 7 July 2021, 12:26 pm
It takes a community to improve a catchment, as evidenced
at a planting day for a Waikato Regional Council shovel
ready project.
Te Poi School students, teachers and
families planted 500 plants in a wetland on a neighbouring
farm as part of the Upper Waiomou Stream restoration project
which has $1.74m in funding from the Jobs for Nature
programme and $74,500 from Fonterra’s environmental
partnerships programme.
The Upper Waiomou Stream
restoration project is one of 17 shovel ready projects which
Waikato Regional Council got government funding for in the
wake of COVID-19 to stimulate the construction and
environmental industries and economy, be of public or