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Watercare Granted Two Consents For Waikato River Water
Wednesday, 9 September 2020, 8:28 pm | Waikato Regional Council
Two consents granted by Waikato Regional Council mean Watercare can continue to maximise the amount of water it can treat for Aucklanders now and into the future. In the past week Waikato Regional Council, Watercare, Auckland Council and Waikato-Tainui ... More >>
$120,000 For Community “severely” Impacted By Bad Smell
Tuesday, 8 September 2020, 1:53 pm | Waikato Regional Council
A Waikato dairy processing company has been convicted and fined $137,500 for discharging objectionable odour that has caused ‘severe’ impacts on a local community and ordered to place $120,000 in trust for the community as reparation for those impacts. ... More >>
Milestone Reached For Te Huia Passenger Rail Service
Friday, 4 September 2020, 3:59 pm | Waikato Regional Council
The first of the carriages for the new Te Huia passenger rail service from Waikato to Auckland will arrive in Hamilton on Saturday, signalling an exciting milestone for the project. A blessing of the carriages, which have been under refurbishment ... More >>
Committee Recommends Lobbying For Swimming Ban In Aratiatia Rapids
Tuesday, 1 September 2020, 6:05 pm | Waikato Regional Council
Waikato regional councillors will be asked to vote on a committee recommendation to lobby for legislation which will enable swimming to be banned in the Aratiatia rapids. It’s among a number of decisions made by a three-person hearings committee ... More >>
Regional Council Opts To Stick With First Past The Post
Thursday, 27 August 2020, 5:00 pm | Waikato Regional Council
Waikato regional councillors have opted to stick with the first past the post voting system for the 2022 triennial election. Other options before today’s council meeting included a change to single transferable voting (STV) and a poll of electors on the ... More >>
New Waikato Regional Council Chief Executive Appointed
Thursday, 27 August 2020, 1:59 pm | Waikato Regional Council
Waikato Regional Council has today announced the appointment of Chris McLay as chief executive. Mr McLay has worked for almost 20 years at the council, holding an executive position in charge of the council’s regulatory responsibilities for the last 17 ... More >>
Council Gives 48 Small Scale Community Pest Control Projects A Funding Boost
Wednesday, 26 August 2020, 3:59 pm | Waikato Regional Council
Waikato Regional Council has given 48 pest animal and plant control projects $149,984 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 >>
Waikato’s COVID-19 Fundraising Cookbook Wins International Awards
Monday, 17 August 2020, 8:37 am | Waikato Regional Council
The world’s most elite chefs have won these awards: Jamie Oliver, Paul Hollywood, Michael Roux and, closer to home, Josh Emett, Nadia Lim and Michael Van de Elzen. And now Waikato Civil Defence Emergency Management (CDEM) has won two awards in the ... More >>
Roadmap A Major Step In Council’s Climate Action Leadership
Friday, 14 August 2020, 5:21 am | Waikato Regional Council
The Climate Action Committee today recommended that the council adopt the Waikato Regional Council Climate Action Roadmap which will signal how the council will work toward a low-emissions, climate-resilient economy. There is hardly a regional council ... More >>
Return To Physical Distancing On Buses
Wednesday, 12 August 2020, 4:00 pm | Waikato Regional Council
Physically distancing will again be required on buses with the return to alert level 2 for the Waikato in the nationwide COVID-19 response. Waikato Regional Council public transport manager Andrew Wilson says the council is well prepared for a change in ... More >>
Waikato Gets $23.8m From Government COVID-19 Recovery Fund For Climate Resilience Projects
Tuesday, 4 August 2020, 6:40 pm | Waikato Regional Council
Waikato Regional Council has secured $23.8 million from the Government for 10 flood protection and catchment projects. Yesterday, Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters and Infrastructure Minister Shane Jones unveiled funding of $103.7 million for climate ... More >>
Waikato Environmental Advocates Sought For Volunteer Group
Monday, 3 August 2020, 9:42 am | Waikato Regional Council
Shepherd Isaac remembers his father reciting karakia – “making us one with the environment” – when walking ancient tracks and entering the water to collect and prepare kai. “But modern times have brought pressures, challenges and struggles ... More >>
Go-ahead To Transfer Functions To Iwi Authority A New Zealand First
Thursday, 30 July 2020, 5:27 pm | Waikato Regional Council
Waikato Regional Council has reached a landmark decision to approve the transfer of specified water quality monitoring functions to the Tūwharetoa Māori Trust Board – a first of its kind in Aotearoa New Zealand. However, the council will still ... More >>
Council Helps Sustainability Of Community Groups With $1.63m In Grants
Thursday, 23 July 2020, 3:20 pm | Waikato Regional Council
Waikato Regional Council has granted $1.63 million to five community groups working on landscape scale predator control projects. At the inaugural meeting of the Community Restoration Committee today, councillors approved Natural Heritage Fund grants to: ... More >>
Call For Landowners Enthusiastic About Flood Protection Or Land Drainage
Friday, 17 July 2020, 11:26 am | Waikato Regional Council
Waikato Regional Council is calling for landowners who want a voice in its flood protection programmes in the Lower Waikato and Waihou-Piako zones and land drainage programmes in the Waikato and Thames Valley catchments. In November last year, the ... More >>
Hearings Decision On Open Country Dairy Consents Released
Friday, 17 July 2020, 6:18 am | Waikato Regional Council
A hearings committee has ruled on an application for two resource consents from Open Country Dairy (OCD) to enable the continued operation and expansion of its Waharoa factory. In a decision released yesterday by an independent Waikato Regional Council ... More >>
Waikato Gets $5.5 Million In Funding For Quick-start Projects To Improve Fresh Water
Sunday, 5 July 2020, 6:53 pm | Waikato Regional Council
Waikato Regional Council has secured $5.535 million in Government funding for quick-start restoration projects. Waikato Regional Council has bid for more than $160 million of funding in response to the Government’s call for shovel ready projects to help ... More >>
Urgent Water Summit Called By Waikato Regional Council
Sunday, 28 June 2020, 12:21 pm | Waikato Regional Council
Waikato Regional Council’s chair has called for an urgent summit to find pragmatic place-based solutions to Auckland’s water crisis, while also protecting the Waikato River. The water summit is set down for Wednesday afternoon in Hamilton, with leaders ... More >>
Climate Change To Be Included In All Council Decision Making
Friday, 26 June 2020, 3:21 pm | Waikato Regional Council
Waikato Regional Council is future-proofing all its programmes, actions and activities by incorporating climate change considerations into decision making. Councillors yesterday unanimously agreed that an assessment of climate change implications would ... More >>
Waikato Regional Council To Appeal “Minor Technical Matters” In Plan Change
Thursday, 25 June 2020, 4:18 pm | Waikato Regional Council
Waikato Regional Council will be asking the Environment Court to resolve technical implementation issues in the Healthy Rivers/Wai Ora plan change. The decision to appeal the plan change was supported by councillors in a 9-3 vote during today’s ... More >>
