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...]
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...]
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...]