Waikato Regional Council

WAIKATO — Federated Farmers president for Marlborough, Geoff Evans gave the New Zealand Royal Air Force the go-ahead today to rescue stock trapped in snow at the head of the Awatere Valley.

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TAUPO — Collaboration between Environment Waikato, Taupo District Council, Mighty River Power, Tuwharetoa and other groups is the key to addressing Lake Taupo foreshore erosion problems, says EWs regulatory committee chairman Ian Balme.

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WAIKATO — An environmentally-minded North Waikato couple has set up the Te Whangai Trust, which is running a sustainable nursery that is not only helping farmers, but turning unemployed people’s lives around.

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CAMBRIDGE — Environment Waikato’s deputy chairman John Fisher, Waipa mayor Alan Livingston and other councillors from Waipa District Council and Environment Waikato helped Te Miro School celebrate its prestigious green-gold Enviroschools award in Cambridge today.

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WAIKATO — Environment Waikato is urging Waikato farmers with flood-damaged pasture to seek expert advice to help paddocks recover and get grass growing again.

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WAIKATO — Farmers are being reminded they have just four more years to apply for financial help from Environment Waikato to fence stock off from waterways under the Clean Streams programme.

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WAIKATO — A new focus on road safety announced by the Government will help reduce the number of crash deaths in the Waikato, which had the highest regional road toll in the country last year, says Regional Transport Committee chairman Norm Barker.

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WAIKATO — Environment Waikato is seeking the community’s help in the battle against pest animals and plants.

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WAIKATO — As expected, water levels in the swollen Waikato and Waipa rivers are easing today as finer weather gives the catchments a chance to drain.

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WAIKATO — Every two seconds, enough water to fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool is pumping past Ngaruawahia through the Waikato River today, as recent heavy rain continues to drain through the catchment.

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WAIKATO — Power companies need to give higher priority to restoring power to farms during storms so that animals don’t suffer, Hauraki District Council mayor John Tregidga said at yesterday’s meeting of the Waikato Civil Defence and Emergency Management (CDEM) Group in Hamilton.

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A possible commuter rail service between the Waikato and Auckland is again gaining a higher profile on the region’s transport agenda.

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WAIKATO — Easing of rainfall in the Waikato over the past day has taken some pressure off rivers and Environment Waikato modeling now suggests floodwater is unlikely to spill onto SH1.

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WAIKATO — After seeing the results for himself, dairy farmer and 2005 Waikato Sharemilker of the Year Mike Visser has no doubt effluent can be successfully used to grow maize – without any commercial fertiliser top-ups.

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WAIKATO — Environment Waikato staff are monitoring a stop bank at Mangatawhiri this morning, in anticipation of floodwaters spilling onto about 40 hectares of farmland.

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WAIKATO — Environment Waikato’s emergency response team is on heightened alert after heavy overnight rain on Lake Taupo and the Upper Waipa River catchment.

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WAIKATO — Farmers and other land owners near the Waipa and Waikato rivers could expect ponding on their properties to last for at least 3-4 more days as the flood peak following this week’s storms works its way through the system.

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HAMILTON — Environment Waikato and Hamilton City Council staff are investigating the source of a diesel spill in the Waikato River, which appears to have originated near the Fairfield Bridge in Hamilton.

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WAIKATO — Environment Waikato’s emergency response team will remain on standby throughout the weekend to monitor rainfall and river levels and keep land owners and agencies updated.

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WAIKATO — Environment Waikato emergency management staff remain on alert as the Waipa and Waikato rivers continue to rise.

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WAIKATO — More rain fell across the Waikato overnight, with heaviest falls recorded in western parts of the region.

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WAIKATO — Environment Waikato is offering assistance and technical advice to Hauraki District Council as HDC works to shore up a stop bank beside the lower Waitakaruru River.

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WAIKATO — Environment Waikatos river management systems are coping well as a burst of severe weather moves over the region.

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HAMILTON — The CBD Shuttle bus service in Hamilton is now even easier for people to use as part of an Accessible Journeys trial.

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WAIKATO — Environment Waikato staff are braced for a second burst of severe weather due to hit the Coromandel and Thames Valley areas from this afternoon.

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HAMILTON — Waikato rugby fans can again take a free bus to the Air New Zealand Cup home games in Hamilton this year, thanks to Environment Waikato, Hamilton City Council and the Waikato Rugby Union.

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COROMANDEL — River monitoring systems in the Coromandel region have coped well with the significant rainfall that has fallen in the area over the weekend, says Environment Waikato chairman Peter Buckley.

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WAIKATO — The current weather warning was issued by the MetService at 0814 on 26/7/2008 as follows:

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WAIKATO — Environment Waikato and civil defence agencies are on standby, following a severe weather warning issued by the MetService today.

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WAIKATO — Waikato beaches are being treated like giant ashtrays.

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HAMILTON — Hamilton city bus travel will be free this Saturday as Environment Waikato says thank you to passengers who have collectively made three million passenger trips in a year for the first time ever.

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WAIKATO — The latest phase of a major research project aimed at helping meet Waikato’s future transport needs gets underway later this month.

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TE AWAMUTU — Te Awamutu residents are invited to grab their gumboots, spades and raincoats and plant trees beside the Mangapiko Stream at Eileen Montefiore Reserve on July 23.

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WAIKATO — Environment Waikato’s regional pest management committee has decided to recommend to full council a proposal that gives landowners greater influence over how pest control is carried out on their land.

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WAIKATO — Environment Waikato is inviting farmers to a free workshop that could save them hundreds of dollars on fertiliser costs every year.

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WAIKATO — The Te Kuiti Pig Hunting Club is working with Environment Waikato to tackle an increased population of feral pigs affecting farming operations upstream of the Mangaokewa Gorge.

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WAIKATO — An Environment Waikato hearing commissioner has granted resource consents needed for Transit New Zealand’s proposed SH1 Te Rapa Bypass.

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HAMILTON — Accessing bus services can be tricky for a range of people, such as the elderly, those in wheelchairs or people with hearing and vision impairments.

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HAMILTON — Environment Waikato is working with police in an attempt to minimise disruption to bus users tomorrow amid threatened protest action by truck drivers, which could clog Hamilton roads during peak morning travel hours.

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HAMILTON — Amid growing demand for buses and high petrol prices, Environment Waikato is introducing three new Direct services in Hamilton to meet the need for more buses to and from northern and western suburbs.

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WAIKATO — Veteran Environment Waikato pest plant contractors Colleen and Jeff Jeffery were farewelled at a ceremony at the council meeting in Hamilton on Thursday 26 June.

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WAIKATO — Canterbury University student Regan Robinson, who attended Hauraki Plains College, has won Environment Waikato’s Roger Harris Scholarship this year.

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TAUPO — Environment Waikato is concerned national farming lobby Federated Farmers is fuelling uncertainty about the future of farming in the Taupo area by misrepresenting regional council plans for protecting Lake Taupo.

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TAUPO — Environment Waikato’s Taupo councillor Laurie Burdett says she is pleased that her district’s ratepayers are only facing a minimal rate rise next year.

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HAMILTON — As high petrol prices continue to bite, Environment Waikato is launching three new Direct bus services to help Hamilton people get to and from work during peak hours.

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WAIKATO — Environment Waikato has held its proposed increase in total rate revenue to just 5.5 per cent for 2008-09, with planned rate increases for a $350,000 house in the majority of local authority areas being just one to two per cent.

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HAMILTON — Bus patronage records continue to tumble in Hamilton as people look for transport alternatives in the face of high petrol prices.

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PUKEKOHE — A Tuakau company has been charged with 26 counts of discharging objectionable odour and breach of an abatement notice.

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WAIKATO — From humble beginnings as a three-school pilot trial launched in Hamilton in 1993, the Enviroschools programme has become a national success story, with more than 550 schools now involved.

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WAIKATO — The ongoing effects of the summer drought continue to cause concern in Waikato.

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WAIKATO — To help Waikato people kick the carbon habit and mark World Environment Day on June 5, Environment Waikato is launching a new project, the e-mission  planting our future.

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WAIKATO — Environment Waikato and the Wharekawa Catchment Care group are teaming up to plant 800 native trees and shrubs beside the Wharekawa River in Opoutere this Saturday.

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WAIKATO — Environment Waikato has helped to rid Waipa farm and garden sheds of nearly 6.5 tonnes of agrichemicals, thanks to an overwhelming response from local residents.

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WAIKATO — Return fares cut by 50 per cent and changes to routes on Hamiltons popular Night Rider bus services on Friday and Saturday nights are to kick in this weekend.

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WAIKATO — Environment Waikato is encouraging Waipa farmers who want to fence and plant streams around Maungatautari to contact the Waterways Ecology Team (WET).

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WAIKATO — Regional councils are praising an extra $1.3 million a year for pest control outlined in last week's Budget.

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WAIKATO — Discounted native trees and shrubs offered for environmental restoration projects by Environment Waikato have gone like hotcakes this year.

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WAIKATO — Environment Waikato’s policy to ensure sustainable use of geothermal resources has won a prestigious international energy award.

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WAIKATO — After nine years working with King Country landowners to control pest plants, Environment Waikato’s contractor Andy Laurenson and his wife Sara-Jane are “crossing the ditch” to start the next phase of their life in West Australia.

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WAIKATO — An Environment Waikato hearing committee has taken steps to accommodate local iwi sensitivities in its approval of a consent to build a road at an existing residential subdivision near Maukutea Dr in Aotea.

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WAIKATO — Environment Waikato does not expect a urea spill into the Waikato River this morning to cause any serious environmental impacts.

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AUCKLAND — Waikato boaties heading to the Hutchwilco New Zealand Boat Show in Auckland this week can check out Environment Waikato's stand for tips and advice about how to stay safe on the water.

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WAIKATO — With winter coming up, Environment Waikato is reminding boat owners that vessels on moorings must be adequately secured and kept in seaworthy condition.

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THAMES — Environment Waikato has granted $3700 from its Enviroschools fund to help Thames South School set up a plant growing unit.

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COROMANDEL — Environment Waikato is conducting an oil spill exercise in Coromandel Harbour next week designed to fine tune its response to real environmental emergencies.

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WAIKATO — An Environment Waikato hearing committee has approved a resource consent that will help to alleviate a significant public health risk caused by failing septic tanks in Piopio.

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WAIKATO — Farmers are warned pastures recovering after the drought could be high in nitrates, posing a poisoning risk to stock.

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HAMILTON — Final numbers show more than 100,000 people used Hamilton’s urban buses during the four-day Hamilton 400 event, more than triple the number that would normally be carried during such a period.

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TAUPO — Environment Waikato is praising Taupo catchment farmers who have already cooperated with a new nitrogen discharge allowance (NDA) benchmarking process, and is reminding others that time is running out for them to submit information before a 30 May deadline.

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WAIKATO — Recent major roading projects in the Waikato have helped lead to clear and significant road safety benefits, according to new data presented to the multi-agency Regional Land Transport Committee today.

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WAIKATO — There has been enough rainfall in April to get Waikato grass growing again, technically putting an end to drought in the region, which was based on soil moisture deficit.

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WAIKATO — Environment Waikato and the Matamata-Piako District Council have declined consent applications concerning the combined proposal for a massive expansion of the existing McIntyre piggery operation and installation of a large 300 tonne per day organic waste digestor producing biogas at Kereone, near Morrinsville.

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WAIKATO — It is coming up to that time of year when farmers are likely to be moving their stock between farms.

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WAIKATO — Waikato ratepayers have a week left to submit on Environment Waikato’s proposed work programmes and rates rises for the next financial year.

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TAUPO — Environment Waikato’s councillors will be having their monthly meeting in Taupo on Wednesday, April 30.

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HAMILTON — Environment Waikato is patting Hamilton people and V8s event-goers on the back for making last weeks Hamilton 400 bus services a huge success.

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AUCKLAND — An Environment Waikato staff submission says it is crucial for the continued holistic management of the Waikato River that the regional council’s northern boundary is not moved further south.

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WAIKATO — The largest ever traffic survey in the Waikato has been completed with more than 47,000 drivers surveyed at various sites around the region during February and March.

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WAIKATO — Whizzing over the wonders of the Waikato region in a small plane was something 85-year-old Marion Lewin never thought she'd do.

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COROMANDEL — Two boating accidents at Tairua Harbour yesterday have highlighted the danger of crossing bars, particularly in small boats, Environment Waikato says.

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WAIKATO — The Waikato has ended up receiving only light rain this afternoon, giving the regions rivers a chance to recede after heavy rain on Monday and Tuesday.

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WAIKATO — Environment Waikato is advising farmers in the Coromandel, Hauraki Plains and Taupo areas to keep an eye on river levels.

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WAIKATO — A drought advisory remains in place over the Waikato region, despite substantial rainfall this week.

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HAMILTON — Hamilton 400 race organisers, Hamilton City Council and Environment Waikato are urging Hamilton residents to plan ahead for trips around the city during the V8s event this Thursday to Sunday.

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NGARUAWAHIA — An Environment Waikato hearing committee has approved resource consents for a new tyre disposal facility in Pukemiro, north-west of Ngaruawahia.

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WAIKATO — Several close calls in the Waikato region this summer have prompted an Environment Waikato plea for boaties to take care when crossing bars.

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WAIKATO — An Environment Waikato economist has won a prestigious international fellowship to study the impacts of environmental policy on farming communities.

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WAIKATO — Three Waikato high school students are off to Wellington this month to help create a better future for the planet.

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A “nasty” environmental offender who burnt off plastic coated wire in the open has been sentenced to six weeks jail.

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WAIKATO — More and more farmers are asking Environment Waikato where to recycle plastic wrapping from silage bales.

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WAIKATO — Public recycling bins for bottles and cans are coming to shopping areas in Taupo and Raglan and could soon be introduced to other Waikato towns.

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WAIKATO — Environment Waikato is keeping a close watch on declining Waikato River levels which are being affected by the region’s ongoing drought.

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HAMILTON — Environment Waikato and Hamilton City Council are to help shift more than 200,000 litres of contaminated liquids and sludge away from the site of the still burning Tamahere industrial fire.

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HUNTLY — Huntly residents wanting to catch a slice of V8s action can more easily take a bus to the event thanks to extra services.

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WAIKATO — Environment Waikato’s regional pest management committee has heard a range of presentations about the use of toxins to control animal and plant pests, including views both for and against using 1080 to kill possums.

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WAIKATO — Environment Waikato is reminding farmers about rules preventing the draining or clearance of ecologically important wetlands.

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WAIKATO — With the end of summer fire bans around the region likely as autumn approaches, Environment Waikato is reminding people of environmental rules regarding outdoor burning of waste.

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WAIKATO — Environment Waikato councillors are visiting all local councils in the Waikato region over the next few weeks to present the regional council’s proposed work plan and spending for next financial year.

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WAIKATO — Environment Waikato's alligator weed eradication programme has been praised by a leading aquatic pest plant expert.

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