Waikato Regional Council

TAUPO — A new Lake Taupo flood study identifies two flood zones around the foreshore based on a 100 year flood event.

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WHANGAMATA — Environment Waikato has put on hold any decisions about the removal of mangroves in Whangamata Harbour to allow time to consult with iwi and other stakeholders about further opportunities to consider the draft Whangamata Harbour and catchment plans.

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WHANGAMATA — Environment Waikato has put on hold any decisions about the removal of mangroves in Whangamata Harbour to allow time to consult with iwi and other stakeholders about further opportunities to consider the draft Whangamata Harbour and catchment plans.

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WAIKATO — Environment Waikato is reminding people resource consents are required for some earthworks, particularly those likely to affect environmentally sensitive areas such as waterways.

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WAIKATO — Environment Waikato is again providing its popular Park & Ride bus service to the Hamilton Nightglow at the University of Waikato.

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WAIKATO — Environment Waikato councillors are proposing a total rates revenue increase of approximately $4 million or 6.8 per cent following yesterday’s adoption of the 2008/09 Draft Annual Plan.

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WAIKATO — A large saw blade is sticking out of the Waipa River, causing a navigation safety hazard.

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HAMILTON — Environment Waikato councillors are proposing to introduce Sunday bus services from September and a range of other new and improved bus services in Hamilton over the next three years.

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WAIKATO — Environment Waikato is signalling changes to its policy framework in response to escalating pressures on the environment.

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PUKEKOHE — A Bucklands poultry farmer whose indoor egg laying operation caused such a bad stench that school pupils had to be sent home has been fined $17,500 in the Pukekohe District Court following a prosecution by Environment Waikato.

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HAMILTON — Bus passenger numbers in Hamilton continue to grow strongly, nudging towards 300,000 for last month.

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WAIKATO — Drought-affected Waikato farmers are being warned to be careful not to import silage contaminated with toxic alligator weed from Northland.

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TAUPO — Environment Waikato is warning of consequences if the small number of farmers who continue to graze too many stock during the 2008 winter, and do not get benchmarked, remain in breach of new rules designed to stop too much nitrogen leaching into Lake Taupo.

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COROMANDEL — Work to complete the last length of stopbank within the critical Waihou Valley Scheme is due to get underway on Monday 10 March, as Environment Waikato moves to finish the scheme that protects properties beside the Hikutaia River in the Thames-Coromandel District.

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Effluent seems to be proving its status as a form of liquid gold.

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WAIKATO — The Regional Land Transport Committee has today strongly affirmed its commitment to the current Waikato Expressway programme after Land Transport New Zealand asked for more information and work before it could commit funds.

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WAIKATO — Environment Waikato is continuing its drive to minimise waste in the region with a grant to help more than 50 Waikato schools set up recycling programmes.

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WAIKATO — An Environment Waikato hearing committee has approved resource consents for an extension to the Dockery marine farm in Aotea harbour.

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WAIKATO — The Waikato Civil Defence Emergency Management (CDEM) Group is taking an active role in Exercise Ruaumoko, whose main exercise week is 10-14 March, culminating in a mock national emergency on 13 and 14 March.

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HUNTLY — Coal miner Solid Energy has been granted consents by Environment Waikato enabling it to progress an extension to underground coal mining at Huntly.

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WAIKATO — That’s the message Environment Waikato is promoting heavily in the region for the annual national Seaweek, from 2-8 March, which focuses on the need to protect the sea and coast.

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WAIKATO — Sports star Sarah Ulmer has nominated Lake Karapiro near her home town of Cambridge in Environment Waikato’s One Waikato Seven Wonders campaign.

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HAMILTON — The Super 14 rugby home games kick off this Saturday night with the Chiefs taking on the Warratahs, and Environment Waikato, Hamilton City Council and the Waikato Rugby Union are again supporting the games with free shuttle buses from the central city.

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WAIKATO — The largest ever traffic survey in the Waikato officially gets underway next week, involving approximately 50,000 drivers.

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WHITIANGA — Environment Waikato’s policy and strategy committee has indicated its support for mangrove management in the Whangamata Harbour but has held back from defining the area of mangroves for removal to allow time for further discussions with stakeholders.

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WAIKATO — An Environment Waikato hearing committee has approved resource consents for a new sand quarry operation and associated clean filling activities near Tuakau in the Franklin district.

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WAIKATO — New research into how the trampling of wet pasture by cattle affects carbon loss in the soil has earned University of Waikato student Paul Mudge the $5000 Dr Stella Frances scholarship.

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WAIKATO — A passion for tramping and the outdoors helped University of Waikato student Louise Fisk to the top of her water science class.

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WAIKATO — A half-year update on Environment Waikato’s financial position for 2007-08 shows the council heading for a higher annual surplus than originally expected, mainly because of planned spending not going ahead due to staff shortages.

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WAIKATO — Environment Waikato today launches its One Waikato, Seven Wonders campaign aimed at uncovering the region’s top seven natural wonders.

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WAIKATO — The environmental impacts of a tanker truck fire at Fonterra's Te Rapa site this morning are expected to be minimal, Environment Waikato says.

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CAMBRIDGE — Environment Waikato and Waipa District Council say vandals are putting people's lives at risk by destroying safety signs near Cambridge's Karapiro Bridge.  A new sign erected in the area last weekend was scratched and burnt with a cigarette lighter only hours after being fixed to a jetty near the bridge.

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WAIKATO — The Waikato region has now officially been declared a drought zone, triggering a regionally coordinated response to help the rural community manage the impact of the ongoing dry conditions.

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WAIKATO — Environment Waikato has confirmed it is seeking information from Blacktop Construction Ltd about whether the company is intending to apply for a land use consent from Hamilton City Council for its proposed asphalt manufacturing plant in Riverlea.

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TAUPO — An Environment Waikato hearing committee has approved resource consents related to earthworks, waste water and water supply for a new development on the fringe of Lake Taupo, finding they are unlikely to have adverse environmental effects.

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WAIKATO — Meat company Affco has been granted changes to its resource consent covering waste water odour discharges from its Horotiu plant to accommodate a planned dairy processing operation.

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TAUPO — Stroppy magpies have been given short shrift in the latest pest control operation involving shooting them with shotguns.

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WAIKATO — Transit New Zealand, Environment Waikato, Hamilton City Council, and other Waikato councils, are undertaking a major transport survey to help determine how $4.4 billion worth of transport funds will be invested over the next decade.

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WAIKATO — Further work on the Tongariro River between Turangi and Lake Taupo is to start at the end of this month in a partnership approach between Environment Waikato and Ngati Turangitukua, manawhenua of the area where the works are to take place.

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TURANGI — Further work on the Tongariro River between Turangi and Lake Taupo is to start at the end of this month in a partnership approach between Environment Waikato and Ngati Turangitukua, manawhenua of the area where the works are to take place.

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WAIKATO — Environment Waikato is considering imposing restrictions on using surface water from the Waihou River catchment, including the Ohinemuri River, to irrigate agricultural land.

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WAIKATO — Environment Waikato has announced that it will hold a public hearing related to a proposed asphalt plant in Riverlea Rd, Hamilton.

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COROMANDEL — Environment Waikato has granted $20,000 from its Environmental Initiatives Fund to sponsor the construction of a pest-proof fence around the Driving Creek Wildlife Sanctuary.

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WAIKATO — Environment Waikato is giving the Waikato River Trails Trust $28,000 towards a walkway that will help people enjoy and learn about the Waikato River.

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WAIKATO — Environment Waikato is funding research into plants that could be used to clean up the region's freshwater lakes.

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WAIKATO — Environment Waikato is giving $33,000 to the Waikato Royal Forest and Bird Society to help save the critically endangered Maui's dolphin.

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TAUPO — Environment Waikato is following up concerns that some farms in the Lake Taupo catchment are beefing up stock numbers in defiance of new land use rules that aim to cap the amount of nitrogen polluting Lake Taupo.

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WAIKATO — Every day dozens of customers flood into Rocket café on Grey St and stream out carrying cardboard cups full of steaming hot coffee.

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WAIKATO — Environment Waikato has got behind efforts to save the kiwi from extinction by granting $39,000 to the National Kiwi Trust.

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WAIKATO — The latest Environment Waikato aerial operation checking for illegal dairy effluent management practices has revealed more promising results.

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WAIKATO — Environment Waikato has posted an independent review of the technical aspects of an application to build an asphalt manufacturing plant in Riverlea, Hamilton on its website.

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WAIKATO — A revamped submission on the Land Transport Management Amendment Bill has today been endorsed by Environment Waikato’s council.

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WAIKATO — Proposed national environmental standards for electricity transmission would load some of Transpower’s current costs directly on to ratepayers, says Environment Waikato.

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WAIKATO — Environment Waikato is to advertise its chief executive’s position in March 2008, five months earlier than required by law.

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WAIKATO — Environment Waikato is to advertise its chief executive’s position in March 2008, five months earlier than required by law.

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HAMILTON — Ongoing growth in the number of passengers being carried on Hamilton’s buses reflects the increased value the public is getting across a range of services.

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ROTORUA — He’s not one for the limelight, but Environment Waikato staff member Jim Price was thrust firmly into it at a recent New Zealand Hydrological Society (NZHS) conference in Rotorua.

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HAMILTON — Environment Waikato’s first attempt at blitzing ship rats, a major tui predator, at its Whatawhata Hamilton Halo site has been a roaring success.

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WAIKATO — Housing New Zealand has got behind an Environment Waikato push to clean up the region’s air.

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WAIKATO — When Welshman Matt Foulkes moved into the small farming community of Arohena, near Otorohanga, he naturally wanted to know who was coming to pick up his rubbish and recycling.

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OTOROHANGA — When Welshman Matt Foulkes moved into the small farming community of Arohena, near Otorohanga, he naturally wanted to know who was coming to pick up his rubbish and recycling.

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WAIKATO — The Waikato region’s road fatality toll for this year is already more than 80, compared to last year’s 65, and there is concern it could be on its way to matching 2005’s “horrific” total of 93.

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TAUPO — An Environment Waikato hearing committee has approved resource consents for a new Taupo geothermal power station that will help meet New Zealand’s growing energy demands in an environmentally friendly way.

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WAIKATO — Environment Waikato is to start talking to other local authorities and business about how to best minimise waste in the region and exploit major opportunities from recycling and waste processing.

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CAMBRIDGE — A Hamilton environmental group aims to provide a major boost to Environment Waikato’s Hamilton Halo project with a new plan to control pests at Maungakawa Reserve, near Cambridge.

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WAIKATO — Environment Waikato recently organised a number of effluent management field days for farmers in conjunction with Federated Farmers, Fonterra and Dexcel.

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WAIKATO — Solid growth in use of Hamilton’s expanded bus services is being sustained, new figures for October show.

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WAIKATO — A Hamilton environmental group aims to provide a major boost to Environment Waikato’s Hamilton Halo project with a new plan to control pests at Maungakawa Reserve, near Cambridge.

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WAIKATO — The Turangi community will soon be able to feel much more relaxed when it rains.

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WAIKATO — Managing dairy farm effluent properly can be a particular issue over the Christmas-New Year period as farmers and staff take holidays, says Environment Waikato.

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WAIKATO — Environment Waikato has a responsibility to manage rivers and the land around them to protect people, property and the environment.

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WAIKATO — Environment Waikato is seeking an enforcement order to rehabilitate a protected Hauraki wetland after more than 30 hectares of vegetation was destroyed there.

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WAIKATO — Sixteen Waikato schools have achieved Enviroschools awards this year, with Cambridge’s Te Miro School becoming only the seventh school in New Zealand to reach the prestigious Green-Gold award.

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WAIKATO — An incident in which three horses are suspected to have died due to eating 1080 poison baits near Turangi shows the importance of people following correct procedures to keep domestic animals safe during aerial drops, says Environment Waikato.

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TAUPO — The New Zealand Grassland Association’s 69th annual conference will be held in the Waikato region next month.

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WAIKATO — Waikato dairy farmers will have the opportunity to find out how effluent can be used to boost the growth of maize silage crops at a series of on farm field days in December.

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WAIKATO — Environment Waikato is conducting a telephone survey this month to find out how dairy, dry stock and horticultural farmers use fertiliser.

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WAIKATO — Environment Waikato has received 529 valid submissions on a resource consent application by roading company Blacktop Construction to build an asphalt plant in Hillcrest.

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Environment Waikato is underlining the importance of checking, cleaning and drying any gear being moved between waterways, following the discovery of dead didymo cells in the Waikato region.

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WAIKATO — Environment Waikato’s new council got off to a flying start yesterday with the election of the chair and deputy chair and appointments to committees.

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WHANGAMATA — Whether you are a permanent resident or among the 70 per cent of holiday home owners who visit Whangamata only occasionally, Environment Waikato wants your feedback on proposals to improve the health of the harbour.

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WAIKATO — A collision between a diesel tanker and a truck on SH1 at Horotiu this morning is unlikely to have caused any serious environmental effects.

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PUKEKOHE — A Pukekohe egg producer is facing serious pollution charges after local residents complained of strong offensive smells.

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HAMILTON — Environment Waikato is using beetles to help track the success of pest control work being carried out under its Hamilton Halo project.

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TAUPO — Registrations for three field trips being held as part of the New Zealand Grassland Association’s 69th annual conference in Taupo next month are being called for.

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WAIKATO — A total of more than $160,000 in fines and costs have been imposed on a company and a contractor developing a Waikato hydro power scheme in the upper Waipa River.

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WHANGAMATA — More than 350 people attended last Saturday’s Healthier Harbour information day in Whangamata.

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WAIKATO — With summer approaching, Environment Waikato is appealing for motorcycles and four-wheel drive vehicles to be kept out of sand dunes on the region’s West Coast beaches for safety and environmental reasons.

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HAMILTON — Hamilton City Council can continue discharging leachate and landfill gas from the closed Willoughby Street landfill on the condition it puts in place a range of measures to protect people, property and the environment.

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WAIKATO — Waikato people interested in improving water quality in their local lakes are invited to a community information day in Huntly on November 1.

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TAUPO — The New Zealand Grassland Association’s 69th annual conference will be held in the Waikato region next month.

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WAIKATO — Waikato Weedbusters is providing Hamilton gardeners with an extra incentive to spring clean their gardens on October 28.

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WAIKATO — Ngaruawahia Weedbusters is declaring war on weeds and providing an extra incentive for locals to spring clean their gardens.

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TAUPO — Taupo District Council has been given approval by an Environment Waikato hearings committee for various works associated with development of the major new East Taupo Arterial (ETA) roading project.

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THAMES — If you’re undecided about what to do about the mangroves in Whangamata’s harbour and estuary, drop in to the Healthier Harbour information day anytime between 10am and 2pm this Saturday.

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WAIKATO — Environment Waikato has seven new councillors following today’s local body election, with five councillors losing their seats.

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WAIKATO — Tears flowed at Environment Waikato’s final meeting of the triennium this week as councillors said goodbye to four retiring colleagues.

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WAIKATO — Progressive results from Environment Waikato’s triennial elections will be available on the council’s website tomorrow afternoon from 2.30pm onwards.

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WAIKATO — Waharoa dairy processor Open Country Cheese was yesterday fined a total of $55,000 in the Hamilton District Court after pleading guilty to 11 charges laid by Environment Waikato.

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WAIKATO — The board of transport agency Transit New Zealand was today briefed on key Waikato roading and transport issues by Environment Waikato and greater Hamilton area local authorities, with all parties committing themselves to addressing problem areas as quickly as possible.

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