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Council Backs Navigation Safety Bylaw Changes For Consultation
Thursday, 25 June 2020, 2:26 pm | Waikato Regional Council
Waikato regional councillors have today backed a recommendation to consult with the public on proposed changes to the Navigation Safety Bylaw. The council’s strategy and policy committee last week heard that the bylaw has rules to make all navigable ... More >>
Waikato Regional Council Opposed To Queue Jumping
Wednesday, 24 June 2020, 4:38 pm | Waikato Regional Council
Waikato Regional Council will this afternoon tell the Environment Select Committee it does not support a bid by Auckland Council to jump the queue for more water from Waikato River catchments. Chair Russ Rimmington said there had been no mention by ... More >>
Rates Relief Package For Waikato Regional Council Ratepayers
Monday, 22 June 2020, 9:19 am | Waikato Regional Council
Waikato Regional Council ratepayers struggling to pay their rates on time will get relief from a range of measures backed by councillors last week. A rates relief package totalling $400,000 had been approved through the 2020/21 annual plan budget in May, ... More >>
Court Order To Improve Effluent System
Friday, 19 June 2020, 10:09 am | Waikato Regional Council
A fine of $31,875 was imposed on Waikato dairy farmer Roger Prout in the Hamilton District Court this week, resulting from unlawful discharges of animal effluent on his Orini property in September 2018. Judge Melanie Dickey also issued an Enforcement ... More >>
Air Quality Returning To Normal After Lockdown Improvements
Friday, 12 June 2020, 12:05 pm | Waikato Regional Council
Air quality improvements experienced during the COVID-19 lockdown have gone, with the most recent Waikato Regional Council monitoring results showing a return to normal concentrations. For Waikato Regional Council chair Russ Rimmington, the lockdown ... More >>
No Increase In Grazing Licence Fees Helps Ease Drought Burden
Thursday, 11 June 2020, 12:26 pm | Waikato Regional Council
There will be no increases in licence fees for grazing on Waikato Regional Council stopbank and spillway land in the Waihou-Paiko Zone this year. The River and Catchment Management Committee this week approved a staff recommendation to hold the current ... More >>
Spike In Illegal Earthworks Calls For Greater Care
Wednesday, 10 June 2020, 5:23 pm | Waikato Regional Council
Illegal earthworks destroying what was previously a freshwater tributary. Waikato Regional Council is being inundated with calls from across the region reporting illegal earthworks, many of them directly impacting on streams and rivers. With 47 individual ... More >>
New Zealand-first Proposal To Transfer Functions To Iwi Authority
Tuesday, 2 June 2020, 4:37 pm | Waikato Regional Council
Tūwharetoa Māori Trust Board could become the first iwi authority in Aotearoa New Zealand to have functions transferred to them by a council under a new proposal just announced. Waikato Regional Council is proposing to transfer summer bathing ... More >>
Salvage Operation Underway On Whangamatā Harbour
Tuesday, 2 June 2020, 11:47 am | Waikato Regional Council
An operation to salvage a stricken commercial vessel on Whangamatā Harbour is underway this morning. Waikato Regional Council received reports about 8am yesterday (Monday, 1 June) of a commercial long liner with approximately 500 litres of diesel on board ... More >>
Council Responding To Two Stricken Vessels – Coromandel Peninsula
Monday, 1 June 2020, 4:31 pm | Waikato Regional Council
Waikato Regional Council is responding to two separate incidents involving stricken vessels on the Coromandel Peninsula, with one leaking diesel fuel. The regional council received reports about 8am of a commercial long liner taking on water in the Whangamatā ... More >>
Pragmatic Changes To Freshwater Package Welcomed
Thursday, 28 May 2020, 6:02 pm | Waikato Regional Council
Waikato Regional Council has welcomed pragmatic changes to freshwater regulations announced today, but warns implementation could be unaffordable for some communities as a deep recession looms. The Action for healthy waterways regulations were released ... More >>
Community Voice For Flood Protection Formalised
Thursday, 28 May 2020, 5:17 pm | Waikato Regional Council
Waikato regional councillors have today voted to formalise a community advisory voice by setting up subcommittees in areas paying the most for flood protection and drainage assets. Two advisory subcommittees will meet on matters relevant to the ... More >>
Big Improvements To Waikato’s BUSIT Services Coming
Thursday, 28 May 2020, 4:41 pm | Waikato Regional Council
Waikato Regional Council is set to rollout the biggest changes to its bus network for several years, with significant timetable and route improvements and a new ticketing system. The rollout of the new ticketing system in the next two months was endorsed ... More >>
You’d Be Quack-ers Not To Clean Equipment Between Waterways
Thursday, 21 May 2020, 9:13 am | Waikato Regional Council
Hunters and duck shooters are being urged to clean their equipment between waterways to avoid the spread of unwanted freshwater pests. The plea from Waikato Regional Council’s biosecurity team comes ahead of the 2020 game bird season opening this ... More >>
Council Budget Confirms Net Zero Rates Increase
Thursday, 21 May 2020, 6:08 am | Waikato Regional Council
Waikato Regional Council is taking unprecedented steps to provide short-term financial support to ratepayers this year by effectively reducing net rates rises to zero. The council today approved a budget of $101.94 million and a decrease in rates revenue ... More >>
Drought Still Biting Parts Of The Waikato
Wednesday, 20 May 2020, 4:39 pm | Waikato Regional Council
The Waikato region has had a series of good rainfall events over the past month, but most of these events largely missed Hauraki, Coromandel and South Auckland. Pasture covers are very low for many farmers in these districts which presents a serious ... More >>
$9m Shovel-ready Bid For Flood Protection Works Includes Environmental Improvements
Wednesday, 20 May 2020, 9:28 am | Waikato Regional Council
Waikato Regional Council’s proposed shovel-ready programme of works for flood protection will connect significant wetlands and enable safe fish passage. The regional council has asked the Government for $9 million towards plans to complete its build ... More >>
Sewage discharge results in fine for council
Tuesday, 19 May 2020, 3:08 pm | Waikato Regional Council
Matamata-Piako District Council was last week convicted and fined $49,875 for an unlawful and avoidable discharge of wastewater, containing sewage, into the environment in December 2018. More >>
Tentative November Start Date For New Train Service
Tuesday, 19 May 2020, 12:22 pm | Waikato Regional Council
A tentative November 2020 launch date has been set for the new start-up passenger rail service from Waikato to Auckland. The COVID-19 Alert Level 4 lockdown resulted in work on the Huntly and Rotokauri stations, as well as the fit out of the carriages ... More >>
Inventory Of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reveals Carbon Footprints Of Waikato Districts
Monday, 18 May 2020, 3:48 pm | Waikato Regional Council
For the first time, the Waikato’s three-yearly survey of greenhouse gas emissions has a breakdown for each territorial boundary. The inventory, released to the Waikato Mayoral Forum today, shows the region has a wide emissions profile and identifies ... More >>
