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Te Mata Mushrooms
Monday, 18 April 2016, 11:30 am | Hawkes Bay Regional Council
Hawke’s Bay Regional Council says it is looking forward to seeing the detail of plans by Te Mata Mushrooms to solve an odour problem at its Havelock North factory. More >>
GoBay & HBRC reassure SuperGold card holders
Friday, 15 April 2016, 11:35 am | Hawkes Bay Regional Council
15 April 2016 GoBay & HBRC reassure SuperGold card holders Hawke’s Bay Regional Council is reassuring SuperGold card holders that the free off-peak bus travel scheme will continue in Hawke’s Bay despite a recent announcement by Government to cap ... More >>
State of Environment Summary for March
Tuesday, 12 April 2016, 12:56 pm | Hawkes Bay Regional Council
Hawke’s Bay Regional Council’s state of the environment summary report for March describes the month as a toned down version of February. The monthly summary report was collated by Dr Kathleen Kozyniak, HBRC’s air quality scientist, using data ... More >>
Velvetleaf Hunt On
Friday, 8 April 2016, 11:09 am | Hawkes Bay Regional Council
Velvetleaf has been discovered in Hawke’s Bay as well as a number of other sites around New Zealand. The Ministry of Primary Industries is operating a national response to control this outbreak. The weed has been discovered in two places in Hawke’s ... More >>
Wasps Plague Riverbanks
Friday, 8 April 2016, 10:55 am | Hawkes Bay Regional Council
There is a population explosion of wasps along Hawke’s Bay riverbanks and Hawke’s Bay Regional Council is warning people to take care along river berm areas. More >>
TANK Group agrees to ramp up efforts
Thursday, 7 April 2016, 3:45 pm | Hawkes Bay Regional Council
Members of the TANK group, coordinated by Hawke’s Bay Regional Council, met again this week and committed to a detailed work programme mapped out to December 2017 - the date when a draft management plan for TANK catchments would be recommended ... More >>
Whakatu Awa Earthworks Scheduled
Thursday, 24 March 2016, 1:55 pm | Hawkes Bay Regional Council
Earthworks for part of the Whakatu Landscape and Awa Enhancement project are scheduled to start on Tuesday 29 March and take around 3 days. More >>
Waihi Dam Update
Thursday, 24 March 2016, 1:31 pm | Hawkes Bay Regional Council
Hawke’s Bay Regional Council says it is pleased the Eastland Group has regained control of the Waihi Dam, which has been discharging silt into the Waiau River since before Christmas. The discharge began after a sluice gate was damaged in a storm ... More >>
Waihi Dam Update
Wednesday, 16 March 2016, 3:48 pm | Hawkes Bay Regional Council
Hawke’s Bay Regional Council says they’ve been advised by Eastland Group that it intends to have the sluice gates on the Waihi Dam closed by the end of this week. More >>
HBRC to consult on proposed Environmental Flows
Wednesday, 16 March 2016, 2:33 pm | Hawkes Bay Regional Council
The Hawke’s Bay Regional Council is to consult with the public on whether to sign up to take additional water from the Ruataniwha Water Storage Scheme for environmental flows. More >>
Getting more young Hawke’s Bay drivers on the road
Tuesday, 15 March 2016, 2:53 pm | Hawkes Bay Regional Council
There has been another step forward in the quest to make it easier for young Hawke’s Bay people to gain a driver’s licence. More >>
Waihi Dam Update
Friday, 4 March 2016, 2:35 pm | Hawkes Bay Regional Council
Hawke’s Bay Regional Council visited the Eastland Group’s Waihi Dam near Wairoa yesterday and are happy with the progress being made on repairs so far. The Eastland Group dam has been discharging silt into the Waiau River since before Christmas after ... More >>
Rotorua transport funding announcement welcomed
Friday, 26 February 2016, 4:54 pm | Hawkes Bay Regional Council
The Chair of the Bay of Plenty Regional Transport Committee has today welcomed the Government’s announcement to inject $24 million into Rotorua’s transport network. Bay of Plenty Regional Councillor Jane Nees says the investment will help strengthen ... More >>
Taking the Ngaruroro’s Temperature
Thursday, 18 February 2016, 4:58 pm | Hawkes Bay Regional Council
Taking the Ngaruroro’s Temperature Fibre-optic cable was used in the Ngaruroro River last week to find out more about the connections between groundwater and surface water. Scientists from GNS Science ( www.gns.cri.nz/ ) were working with Hawke’s ... More >>
HBRC Maori Committee holding meeting in Wairoa
Friday, 12 February 2016, 9:53 am | Hawkes Bay Regional Council
Hawke’s Bay Regional Council Maori Committee will be holding its first meeting of the year in Wairoa on Monday. The committee meets bi-monthly and consists of three councillors and 12 Maori members representing the four Taiwhenua of Wairoa, Tamatea, ... More >>
HBRC reviewing plan to resolve Waihi Dam silt discharge
Tuesday, 9 February 2016, 3:12 pm | Hawkes Bay Regional Council
Hawke’s Bay Regional Council is reviewing an action plan from Eastland Group outlining the steps it will take to resolve the discharge of sediment from the Waihi Dam into the Waiau River. More >>
Hawke's Bay Trends
Friday, 5 February 2016, 12:25 pm | Hawkes Bay Regional Council
We seem to have an El Niño with an identity crisis. It lives up to its name for a time and then it suddenly adopts a warm, drenching, vaguely La Niña persona. But in this case, the wetter than usual January was courtesy of a couple of ex-tropical ... More >>
Master Plan being developed for TANK
Thursday, 4 February 2016, 11:16 am | Hawkes Bay Regional Council
A master plan is being developed in an effort to help a stakeholder group brought together by Hawke’s Bay Regional Council to set objectives and limits for managing water in the Greater Heretaunga and Ahuriri catchment regain momentum. More >>
Mana Enhancing Agreement signed
Monday, 1 February 2016, 11:04 am | Hawkes Bay Regional Council
Mana Enhancing Agreement signed between Maungaharuru-Tangitū Trust and HBRC An historic agreement has been signed between the Maungaharuru-Tangitū Trust and the Hawke’s Bay Regional Council aimed at working together to enhance the Te Wai-o-Hingānga ... More >>
Lethal conditions for fish in Tūtira Lake
Friday, 29 January 2016, 3:45 pm | Hawkes Bay Regional Council
More dead fish have been found at Lake Tūtira by HBRC’s science monitoring team this week. “We saw at least dozens, and potentially over a hundred pan-sized trout along the shores of the lake today,” said Vicki Lyon, a Water Quality and Ecology ... More >>
