Sediment loading in Kaipara Harbour tributary.
Photo: LDR / Susan Botting
Kaipara Moana Remediation (KMR) interim management unit senior manager Alan Wilcox said planting the trees was the foundation of a new intergenerational approach.
First plantings for the programme are planned this month - across 6000sq km of land with more than 8000km of waterways.
Tame Te Rangi, chairperson of the governing body Kaipara Moana Remediation joint committee, said it was positive to see the community working towards improving the health of the harbour.
He said two groups had already applied to be involved in harbour improvement through riparian planting and other efforts - the Wairua River group catchment group in Northland and the Hoteo River catchment group in Auckland.
Twenty million trees part of wide-ranging Kaipara Harbour restoration project
3 May, 2021 06:00 AM
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The Northern Wairoa River flows past Dargaville Photo / Susan Botting
Susan Botting is the Local Democracy Reporter for Northlandsusan.botting@northernadvocate.co.nz
More than 20 million trees and other natives will be planted around New Zealand s biggest harbour in the groundbreaking $200 million Kaipara Moana Remediation project.
Alan Wilcox, a senior manager for the Kaipara Moana Remediation interim management unit, said planting the 20 million trees was the foundation of a new intergenerational approach.
The first plantings are planned this month. They will be the start of New Zealand s biggest large-scale harbour restoration programme - across 6000sq km of land with more than 8000km of waterways.
Council does about-turn on landfill
Consultant planner Mark Ross at yesterday’s Waste management hearing in Warkworth.
A consultant planner for Auckland Council made a complete U-turn at the hearings into the proposed Dome Valley landfill yesterday (Thursday, December 17), when he backtracked from his original recommendation that resource consent be refused and instead recommended that commissioners approve the application.
Mark Ross said he was now in a position where he was comfortable with all the physical effects of the proposed landfill and his original concerns over the loss of streams and adverse effects on native frogs, bats and birds had been assuaged by Council specialists and Waste Management’s mitigation proposals.
Dome Valley
Photo: The Wireless / Luke McPake
The group Fight the Tip, Save the Dome led by Michelle Carmichael, put forward its opposition at a resource consent hearing in Warkworth on Friday afternoon.
They spoke in front of five independent commissioners, a panel charged by the Auckland Council with hearing the screeds of evidence and submissions into the controversial business of where Auckland sends its waste.
Years of work has gone into research and campaigning by a group intent on stopping a mega-landfill being built on the northern outskirts of Auckland. It is a huge day, absolutely, Carmichael said. It s like the beginning of the end, hopefully.