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Plea To Boaties – If In Doubt, Don’t Go Out
Thursday, 20 October 2022, 10:53 am | Waikato Regional Council
Boaties are being reminded to prep their boat, check their gear and know the rules ahead of the traditionally busy Labour Day weekend on the Waikato region’s waterways and off the coast. “We want boaties to have fun if heading out on the water over ... More >>
Final Election Results Announced For Waikato Regional Council
Saturday, 15 October 2022, 1:02 pm | Waikato Regional Council
All votes have now been counted, with no changes to the make-up of the 14-member Waikato Regional Council announced on Election Day. Elected members will take office tomorrow (Sunday, 16 October). However, an elected member cannot act until after ... More >>
Landowners Retire Nearly 6000ha Of Unproductive Land In Five Years
Thursday, 13 October 2022, 2:20 pm | Waikato Regional Council
Landowners in the Waikato, with support by Waikato Regional Council, have in total retired the equivalent of 21 average-sized farms of unproductive land and planted over 3 million trees in the past five years. The council’s Integrated Catchment ... More >>
Companies Fined For Damaging Stream
Thursday, 13 October 2022, 10:24 am | Waikato Regional Council
A farming company and an earthworks contractor have been convicted and fined a total of $76,500 for unlawfully excavating a north Waikato stream. Gregan Farms Limited and Steve Barker Limited were fined $31,500 and $45,000 respectively by District ... More >>
“Highly Careless” Forestry Harvest Results In Convictions And Fines
Tuesday, 11 October 2022, 9:21 am | Waikato Regional Council
Convictions and fines totalling more than $100,000 have been imposed for environmental damage caused by a “highly careless” pine woodlot harvest and associated earthworks on a farm in northern Waikato. Forestry company, Glenn Martin Ltd, and forestry harvest ... More >>
Eight New Waikato Regional Councillors
Saturday, 8 October 2022, 7:13 pm | Waikato Regional Council
Provisional votes are in for the 2022 local government elections, with eight new members elected to Waikato Regional Council. Two councillors had been re-elected unopposed, both in the Māori constituencies established nine years ago: Kataraina ... More >>
City Council Convicted For Wastewater Discharge
Tuesday, 4 October 2022, 3:23 pm | Waikato Regional Council
Hamilton City Council has been convicted and fined $76,500 in respect of a discharge of wastewater into the environment over a period of nine days in October 2020. The sentence released yesterday (Monday, 3 October) was imposed by District Court Judge ... More >>
Council Gives 44 Small Scale Community Pest Control Projects A Funding Boost
Thursday, 29 September 2022, 11:00 am | Waikato Regional Council
Waikato Regional Council has given 44 pest animal and plant control projects $150,000 in funding in the latest round of its Small Scale Community Initiatives Fund (SSCIF). The fund was set up to help local communities and individual landowners undertake ... More >>
New Kit Tested During Raglan Marine Oil Spill Exercise
Friday, 23 September 2022, 3:47 pm | Waikato Regional Council
Emergency responders from Waikato Regional Council tested out some new equipment during a marine oil spill exercise in Raglan yesterday. The new equipment, which is paid for by an oil pollution levy collected from industry to run Maritime New ... More >>
Bold Plan For Public Transport In The Waikato Rohe Confirmed
Friday, 23 September 2022, 3:02 pm | Waikato Regional Council
Waikato regional councillors have unanimously signed off on a bold 10-year plan for public transport in the rohe (region) at their last meeting for the triennium. The aspirational draft regional public transport plan was released for feedback in ... More >>
Environmental Initiatives Awarded Funding
Tuesday, 20 September 2022, 1:37 pm | Waikato Regional Council
Six community environmental groups benefit from this year’s round of Waikato Regional Council’s Environmental Intiatives Fund. The council approved $54,298.97 to: Habitat Tuateawa for maintaining and coordinating Habitat Tuateawa’s pest control and monitoring ... More >>
Bridge To Bridge Project Ends With Staff Planting Day
Monday, 12 September 2022, 11:18 am | Waikato Regional Council
A three-year community-led project to replant the riparian margins of the Waitoa River between the Puketutu and Station Road bridges near Matamata has been completed. Landowners on either side of the river between the two bridges have upgraded 8 kilometres ... More >>
Electricity Outage Among 286 Climate Change Risks Identified For Region
Friday, 9 September 2022, 5:26 pm | Waikato Regional Council
Not many people would think about a wildfire in the South Island impacting the supply of electricity in the Waikato. But yesterday’s Climate Action Committee heard how climate change is increasing the wildfire season, and a wildfire impacting the high-voltage ... More >>
Report Provides Snapshot Of Region’s Overall State Of Wellbeing
Tuesday, 6 September 2022, 3:43 pm | Waikato Regional Council
An annual report on the Waikato region’s state of wellbeing notes some significant positive and negative trends for the 2022 update. The update of the Waikato Progress Indicators (WPI) – Tupuranga Waikato was presented to the Strategy and Policy Committee ... More >>
Council Funding Options For Affordable Homes Initiative To Be Investigated
Monday, 29 August 2022, 10:13 am | Waikato Regional Council
Waikato Regional Council will investigate ways it might provide an injection of funds to an affordable housing initiative proposed by philanthropic organisation Momentum Waikato. At the 25 August meeting, councillors heard that, through its impact ... More >>
Marine Pest Surveys Start In Waikato Coastal Marine Areas
Tuesday, 23 August 2022, 1:04 pm | Waikato Regional Council
A dive team has started surveying the Waikato’s coastal marine areas to determine the presence and extent of marine pest species. The divers started in the Coromandel Peninsula this week, after which they will be checking the west coast Port Waikato, ... More >>
Two Councillors Elected Unopposed, Competition In Six Constituencies
Friday, 12 August 2022, 3:04 pm | Waikato Regional Council
Two candidates have been elected unopposed to Waikato Regional Council, with competition in six of the constituencies. At the close of nominations at midday today (Friday, 12 August), 29 nominations had been received for 14 Waikato Regional Council seats ... More >>
Robust Information Needed To Inform Management Of Waikato Groundwaters
Friday, 12 August 2022, 1:54 pm | Waikato Regional Council
New groundwater research reveals that changes to land use and management may result in more rapid improvements to freshwater quality, says Waikato Regional Council. The results of the research, funded by Waikato Regional Council, were presented at ... More >>
Mōkau Wallaby Find ‘disappointing’
Wednesday, 10 August 2022, 2:34 pm | Waikato Regional Council
It is highly likely that a female wallaby found in Mōkau got there with human assistance, says Waikato Regional Council. Senior Biosecurity Officer Dave Byers, who leads the council’s progressive containment management programme for wallabies near the boundary ... More >>
Search Begins Again For Elusive Rooks
Wednesday, 10 August 2022, 1:48 pm | Waikato Regional Council
Rook numbers are likely on the rise after escaping control last year due to COVID-19 restrictions. With spring just around the corner, Waikato Regional Council is asking landowners to report rook sightings for targeted pest control to prevent them from ... More >>
