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Call for snaps of super moon high tides
Friday, 11 November 2016, 11:34 am | Waikato Regional Council
Next week’s super moon event will bring a series of king tides on Waikato’s coasts raising high tide levels to 100-year peaks (not counting potential sea level rise due to climate change or storms). More >>
Landowners and agencies boost efforts to protect lake
Wednesday, 9 November 2016, 2:07 pm | Waikato Regional Council
Waikato Regional Council is working closely with local landowners and others on beefed up efforts to protect one of the region’s best functioning peat lakes, Lake Maratoto between Rukuhia and Ohaupo in Waipā district. The council has recently ... More >>
Council welcomes Healthy Rivers on farm report
Tuesday, 8 November 2016, 2:04 pm | Waikato Regional Council
Waikato Regional Council says a new report testing the implications of the Healthy Rivers/Wai Ora: Proposed Waikato Regional Plan Change 1 has provided useful data to inform the submission process. More >>
Whitianga cubs and keas tackle wild ginger
Monday, 31 October 2016, 3:02 pm | Waikato Regional Council
Whitianga cubs and keas have helped Waikato Regional Council tackle the pest plant wild ginger, which can damage native bush if it gets out of control. The weed-busting work was done at the Riverglen camp on the Coromandel’s Tapu-Coroglen road. After ... More >>
Proposed plan change for Waikato and Waipa rivers
Friday, 21 October 2016, 3:52 pm | Waikato Regional Council
From tomorrow, the public will have its chance to have a say on how best to manage what is arguably New Zealand’s most important and complex river system. More >>
Alan Livingston elected chair of Waikato Regional Council
Friday, 21 October 2016, 2:58 pm | Waikato Regional Council
Cr Livingston – a fomer Waipa mayor and a second term regional councillor – was co-chair of the council-iwi Healthy Rivers Wai Ora committee in the last council term. More >>
Te Aroha winner of outstanding contribution award
Friday, 21 October 2016, 10:39 am | Waikato Regional Council
A Te Aroha-based catchment management officer at Waikato Regional Council has won an outstanding contribution award from the New Zealand Association of Resource Management (NZARM). More >>
Soil conservation made finals in Kudos awards
Thursday, 20 October 2016, 10:48 am | Waikato Regional Council
An innovative tool to support soil conservation developed by Waikato Regional Council land and soil scientist Dr Reece Hill made it into the finals of two categories at the Kudos Hamilton Science Excellence Awards held last night. The geographic information ... More >>
Waikato supports drive on lifejackets
Thursday, 20 October 2016, 10:47 am | Waikato Regional Council
Waikato Regional Council is lending its support to a new national push to ensure people comply with lifejacket regulations while out on the water. Maritime NZ has announced the new “no excuses” drive today as part of Safer Boating Week. It ... More >>
Cambridge rook control targets production pest
Wednesday, 19 October 2016, 2:14 pm | Waikato Regional Council
Taking to the air is the best way to tackle an avian pest that can significantly harm farm production. Waikato Regional Council contractors have today used an applicator dangling from a helicopter to place poison in five rook nests at Te Ko Utu Park in ... More >>
Council staff pitch in to support Cambridge wetland project
Monday, 17 October 2016, 1:49 pm | Waikato Regional Council
Volunteers from Waikato Regional Council’s staff have rolled up their sleeves to support a planting day at St Peter’s School in Cambridge. The wetland is part of a bigger environmental sustainability project led by St Peter’s School and Lincoln ... More >>
Popular MarineMate app gets funding boost
Monday, 17 October 2016, 11:00 am | Waikato Regional Council
17 October 2016 Popular MarineMate app gets funding boost The Waikato Regional Council-developed MarineMate mobile phone app, which is hugely popular with boaties nationally, has been given a funding boost by Maritime NZ. The national body announced today that ... More >>
Waikato River Authority allocates $750,000 to projects
Friday, 14 October 2016, 3:08 pm | Waikato Regional Council
Waikato Regional Council says grants of up to more than $750,000 from the Waikato River Authority for environmental projects are a sign of the solid partnership between the two agencies. “The eight projects involving the council that are being funded ... More >>
Council praises Healthy Rivers research
Friday, 14 October 2016, 11:00 am | Waikato Regional Council
Waikato Regional Council is welcoming a Federated Farmers-led joint project testing the implications of the Healthy Rivers/Wai Ora: Proposed Waikato Regional Plan Change 1 for the rural community. More >>
Managing fertiliser in spring
Tuesday, 11 October 2016, 11:56 am | Waikato Regional Council
Getting the best bang for buck out of fertiliser while protecting economic and environmental bottom lines is a key balancing act for farmers. More >>
Preliminary results: Change to Waikato constituency
Monday, 10 October 2016, 10:13 am | Waikato Regional Council
Saturday’s votes have been counted and signal a change is likely to one of the two councillors elected to the Waikato general constituency. Fred Lichtwark is now leading Tony Armstrong by 22 votes for Waikato Regional Council. However, special ... More >>
Five new councillors elected to Waikato Regional
Saturday, 8 October 2016, 3:55 pm | Waikato Regional Council
Progress results: Five new councillors elected to Waikato Regional Council Waikato Regional Council has five new councillors according to progress results received by 3.30pm today. Tony Armstrong and Jennie Hayman replace retiring councillors Peter ... More >>
Machine hygiene best defence against pest plants
Friday, 7 October 2016, 11:21 am | Waikato Regional Council
Machine hygiene is the best defence against velvetleaf and other damaging weeds and is especially important during the spring planting season, says Waikato Regional Council’s biosecurity team. Velvetleaf is an aggressive cropping weed – one of ... More >>
How to tackle pest wasps
Friday, 7 October 2016, 9:45 am | Waikato Regional Council
With summer just around the corner, Waikato Regional Council is urging people to look out for pest wasps and to use safe ways to tackle then if they establish nests on private properties. Wasps were very prevalent throughout the Waikato last summer. ... More >>
Putting a stop to swooping magpies
Tuesday, 4 October 2016, 4:28 pm | Waikato Regional Council
Having magpies dive bomb you can be a distinctly uncomfortable experience, particularly during the spring breeding season when the birds are especially protective of their habitat. Because of their intrusive presence and behaviour, magpies are classed as ... More >>
