Water safe at Maraetai
Water in Lake Maraetai is back to normal after a spill of treated sludge from the Kinleith paper mill earlier this month.
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Windy, sometimes wet summer predicted
A bit of everything is predicted for the country’s weather over the summer break.
Help for Marokopa sand spit
Environment Waikato has granted $5000 to fence stock and feral goats out of a recently planted sand spit near Marokopa.
Support for bush environmental programmes
Environment Waikato is providing $15,000 towards the Te Ngahere Kaitiakitanga Trust to develop education programmes promoting sustainable native forest management.
Raglan Information Centre seeks environmental standard
Environment Waikato is to assist Raglan’s Information Centre to achieve Green Globe 21 certification of its operations.
Funding support for Taupo walkway
Environment Waikato is to grant $5000 to replace a public walkway leading to Lake Taupo.
Council help for national walkway
Environment Waikato is to provide a total of $25,000 to the Te Araroa Trust, which is developing a national foot trail from Cape Reinga to Bluff.
Grant to develop schools network
Environment Waikato has granted $21,000 from its Environmental Initiatives Fund to develop a network of educational relationships among schools in the Enviroschools programme and businesses and other organisations.
Council grant for Maungatautari project
Environment Waikato has granted $40,000 from its Environmental Initiatives Fund to construct a pest-proof fence on the northern side of Maungatautari mountain.
College Helped with Recycling Project
Environment Waikato has granted $2000 to Taupo Nui A Tia College to expand its recycling programme.
College helped with recycling project
Environment Waikato has granted $2000 to Taupo Nui A Tia College to expand its recycling programme.
Support for re-forestation project
Environment Waikato is to help re-forest an area of Hot Water Beach’s reserve.
Council grant for forest purchase
Environment Waikato has granted $10,000 to the New Zealand Native Forest Restoration Trust to help complete the purchase a block of lowland forest at Mapiu in the Waitomo District.
Kauri Trust helped with Coromandel project
Environment Waikato has granted $5000 to the Kauri 2000 Trust to maintain and weed kauri saplings on the Coromandel Peninsula.
Thames dairy farmer fined for effluent spill
A Thames dairy farm and its manager have been convicted and fined for discharging dairy shed effluent into a drain.
Consents granted for Waihi underground mine
Resource consents have been granted to construct and operate the Favona underground gold and silver mine in Waihi.
Traffic police offer snacks for tired drivers
That police officer who pulls you over on the way to your holiday break may just have a cuppa and a snack for you instead of a ticket.
Council wants to know about dead stock
Environment Waikato wants to know if dead stock are dumped in the Region.
Heavy rain hits Kinleith sludge dam
Environment Waikato is checking out the damage after heavy rain over topped a temporary sludge storage dam at the Kinleith Pulp and Paper Mill site, sending up to 5,000 cubic metres of treated sludge into Lake Maraetai.
Test abseil for Karapiro Dam
Te Awamutu abseilers will climb down the Karapiro Dam for the first time next week to ‘test the waters’ for a mass assault by amateur abseilers in March.