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Rodney Local Board is offering funding to help landowners and community groups protect and restore waterways with high E. Coli concentrations in three river catchment areas – the Lower and Upper Kaipara, Makarau and Rangitopuni.
The Board’s Healthy Harbours Waterway Fund 2018/2019 is open to applications from all landowners, including farmers and lifestyle block owners, community groups and environmental groups, within the catchments that fall in the Rodney ward area.
The targeted funding programme was set up to support community-led initiatives to improve water quality in the Rodney area by protecting, enhancing or restoring streams, waterways, wetlands, and riparian and coastal margins.
It is mainly targeted at projects involving fencing of streams, wetlands, seeps and drains, but is also available to provide alternative water supplies for livestock needed as a result of fencing, for restoration planting and for plant maintenance within fenced-off areas.
The Board says the Lower and Upper Kaipara, Makarau and Rangitopuni river catchments are being targeted as they had been identified as having high E. Coli concentrations.
“This is an opportunity to get financial support and professional advice for improving the health of waterways, supporting the Rodney Local Board’s long term vision of improved water quality in Rodney’s three harbours.”
The Board is working with partners such as Fonterra, Beef + Lamb, Dairy NZ and groups such as the Forest Bridge Trust, who will work directly with local landowners and give them support.
Applications for funding are open until Monday, October 29. For more information and to apply, search for ‘Healthy Harbours fund’ at aucklandcouncil.govt.nz, or contact Alan Phelps on 022 197 8230 or alan.phelps@aucklandcouncil.govt.nz
