Waikato Regional Council

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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WAIKATO — A “missing” mating pair of Western North Island Brown kiwi has been successfully located and fitted with radio transmitters as part of a project aimed at helping the critically endangered and iconic birds survive in the wild.

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WAIKATO — Following the success of last season’s effluent field days, Environment Waikato, Federated Farmers, Fonterra and Dexcel are running another five in October.

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WAIKATO — A big corporate dairy farmer which blamed its sharemilker for a literal stream of effluent flowing across its Reporoa property has had its appeal against a $35,000 fine tossed out by the High Court.

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WAIKATO — A Waikato company which unlawfully buried illegal toxic chemicals in a way that risks them getting into waterways has been found guilty of charges laid by Environment Waikato under the Resource Management Act.

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WAIKATO — Environment Waikato is undertaking a wide range of measures to help adapt to the effects of climate change, and to lessen human contributions to the problem.

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HAMILTON — Hamiltonians can ride the city’s buses for free this Saturday as Environment Waikato gets in behind the international World Car Free Day.

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HAMILTON — The proposed new bus network for Hamilton has been given the thumbs up after a hearings committee heard public submissions on Environment Waikato’s Draft Regional Passenger Transport Plan.

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WAIKATO — Environment Waikato’s environment committee has recommended the council contribute $4,900 towards an electronic waste collection day in Hamilton on Saturday, 29 September.

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WAIKATO — Aquaculture in the Waikato region has expanded to the stage where it now has annual turnover of around $35 million, says a report to Environment Waikato’s policy and strategy committee.

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WAIKATO — Moves to further protect the endangered Maui’s dolphin off the west coast of the North Island have been backed by Environment Waikato’s environment committee.

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WAIKATO — Environment Waikato and the Raukawa Trust Board have signed a new agreement to facilitate cooperation between the regional council and the board on environmental issues.

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WAIKATO — Volunteer Beachcare groups helped protect more than 37 kilometres of beach and sand dunes over 2006/07, says a report received today by Environment Waikato’s environment committee.

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COROMANDEL — Environment Waikato is to trial an innovative approach to flood management that involves removing gravel to fix one problem, and then using the same material to fix another.

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WAIKATO — Environment Waikato has granted $4500 from its Environmental Initiatives Fund to help Whaingaroa Environment Centre develop an environmentally friendly shopping bag.

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LAKE ROTOMA — Aerial and ground-based inspections show most farmers in the Lake Taupo catchment have not been excessively grazing their cows this winter, but some isolated cases of over-grazing are concerning Environment Waikato.

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HAMILTON — New bus fares approved today by Environment Waikato’s council are aimed at ensuring users pay a fair share of the direct costs of expanding passenger transport in Hamilton.

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HAMILTON — He recycles.

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