Nelson City Council and the Maitai Story Map host the videos of histories and memories of the Maitai/Mahitahi. In this video Jane Martin recalls her wartime childhood living at the foot of Cleveland Terrace. … [Read more...]
Maitai Housing Development Concerns.
FOM press release in response to Maitai housing development. Friends of the Maitai (FOM) is very concerned that the Nelson City Council is pushing through infrastructure for a major housing development in the Maitai Valley without public consultation. It emerged at Wednesday’s Annual Plan … [Read more...]
Environmental questions raised over Maitai housing development
Article from Stuff by Tim Newman, for stuff website click here. Councillors have raised questions over the potential environmental effects of a new housing development in the Maitai Valley. The proposed development is a collaboration between local developers and iwi, and could result in a … [Read more...]
Forestry number one concern for river health
Steven Gray representing the Friends of the Maitai presented the following set of slides to the Nelson City Council's Environment Committee. The Nelson Mail covered the presentation in the article you can get to from this … [Read more...]
Te Wairepo York Stream – from the Hills to the Sea 2016-18
Follow the clean-up process that has been happening in the Te Wairepo York Stream running through central Nelson. Starting high in the hills near the York Valley landfill and running slowly down to where the Saltwater Creek joins the sea, the waterway is starting to show promising signs of … [Read more...]
Project Mahitahi Story Map
The council have create a story map of Project Mahitahi which brings together all the Project Mahitahi work in an interactive story map. A story map combines maps with narrative text, images, and multimedia content like videos. To experience the map click here. … [Read more...]
Council retires forestry blocks amid national shake up of forestry practices
Article by Stuff reporter Katy Jones Nelson City Council is retiring more than a fifth of its forestry blocks and building a wetland along the Maitai River, in response to concerns about the environmental impact of forestry practices locally and nationwide. The council last week released Niwa … [Read more...]
Citizen science: Monitoring the Maitai
The first Wednesday of the month finds Philippa Eberlein and her Friends of the Maitai colleagues collecting samples from the Maitai River in Nelson. It’s a monthly routine she has held since 2014 when she answered an advertisement, placed by Friends of the Maitai in the newspaper, seeking … [Read more...]
Forestry linked to damaging sediment in Nelson river
Pine forest plantations are "probably" contributing a disproportionate amount of damaging fine sediment into Nelson city's Maitai River, new research says. Recently harvested or replanted forestry land was a substantial source of sediment in the Maitai and tributaries in its upper and middle … [Read more...]
Blue-green algae monitoring starts
Council has started its summer blue-green algae (also known as cyanobacteria) monitoring programme, to ensure it can provide up-to-date information to river users on any elevated levels of algae in the Maitai River. Blue-green algae is a naturally occurring organism found throughout New Zealand. It … [Read more...]
World Water Day – Fish Game
To celebrate World Water Day, March 23rd. Ali K and I set up the Fish Game close to the Brook Waimarama display and the NCC stand by the stream in Isle Park. This coincided with the Isle Park evening market. We enjoyed playing the game with several young families. While there,we met the Educators … [Read more...]
Filthy water report: A starting point or an end game? – Radio NZ
Written by Dave Hansford @davehansford4 Another day; another freshwater report. By now, you could recite this stuff in your sleep: too many cows pissing too much nitrate, drought by irrigation. Greedy farmers, shrill environmentalists. Equivocal scientists, euphemistic politicians. All of them … [Read more...]