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FOM Presentation to NCC May 19

May 11, 2019 by Rosie

Council Meeting May 19

Steven Gray representing Friends of the Maitai at the Nelson City Council. Steven's presentation is below, to download a copy click here. The Friends of the Maitai (FoM) is a group of residents who have been actively advocating for the health of the Maitai River for the past five years. We’ve … [Read more...]

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Project Mahitahi Story Map

July 29, 2018 by Rosie

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...]

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Council retires forestry blocks amid national shake up of forestry practices

May 14, 2018 by Rosie

Forestry block above Maitai River

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...]

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Citizen science: Monitoring the Maitai

May 5, 2018 by Rosie

NIWA Ecoli water testing kit

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...]

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Forestry linked to damaging sediment in Nelson river

May 2, 2018 by Rosie

Niwa Sediment Graphic of Maitai Catchment

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...]

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Blue-green algae monitoring starts

November 21, 2017 by Rosie

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...]

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Filthy water report: A starting point or an end game? – Radio NZ

April 30, 2017 by Rosie

Trout being released into river

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...]

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