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...]
Cardboard plant guards stem from daughter’s plastic question
By SKARA BOHNY A teenage environmentalist's question sowed the seed for an invention to take plastic out of tree planting projects. Seedlings planted in ecological recovery operations are protected by plant guards, plastic sleeves held in place with bamboo or metal stakes around the … [Read more...]
Contractors fined after sediment destroys native fish habitat in Nelson
Contractors developing a large Nelson retirement village have been fined $90,000 for "gross pollution" of a stream. At an Environment Court hearing in Nelson, Judge Brian Dwyer said sediment from earthworks discharged into Maire Stream meant the population of indigenous banded kokopu had … [Read more...]
Plastic parking tickets continue to litter Nelson
By SARA MEIJ Plastic parking tickets continue to litter Nelson city almost three years after the council announced a $1 million plan to tackle the issue. The Nelson City Council's plan in 2015 proposed to replace all existing parking meters with more modern, high-tech models between 2017 and … [Read more...]
Iwi ‘locked into’ forestry land linked to river damage
By KATY JONES Iwi have little option but to keep forestry on land handed back by the Crown, a top of the south iwi says. As the forestry industry faces criticism for the environmental impact of some of its operations, Ngati Koata says the structure of its settlement deal gave it little room to … [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...]
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...]
Wetland Reinstated at Groom Creek
The council recreated the Groom Creek wetland by diverting the stream that went straight down the fenceline of the Groom Creek planting area. Much planting has been done on the hillside along with streamside and riparian planting, and also in the forebay. Over 300 koura were translocated from … [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...]
FOM Present at the Council Meeting 9th November
Great work from Alison Horn on behalf of FOM. And Matt Lawrey please keep on asking the Nelson City Councilt tough questions about swimmability of the Maitai. The presentation also covered those pesky plastic parking tickets, the councils new environmental hotline 0800POLLUTE (great news), and the … [Read more...]