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A landslide has blocked Scenic Drive between Arataki Visitor Centre and West Coast Rd - in the same place as one in October last year. An Auckland Transport spokesman said he expected it will take til July 19 to open one lane, but it may be longer if more material falls. The slip happened on July … View moreA landslide has blocked Scenic Drive between Arataki Visitor Centre and West Coast Rd - in the same place as one in October last year. An Auckland Transport spokesman said he expected it will take til July 19 to open one lane, but it may be longer if more material falls. The slip happened on July 15 at about 9am. In the meantime motorists have a 20 minute detour via Shaw and West Coast Rds, he said.
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The maximum motorway speed around Auckland's Waterview Tunnel will increase from Monday 23rd July next week from 80kmh to 100kmh. However, the maximum speed limit of the tunnel itself will remain at 80kmh.
"The Transport Agency takes adjusting speed limits very seriously and we have … View moreThe maximum motorway speed around Auckland's Waterview Tunnel will increase from Monday 23rd July next week from 80kmh to 100kmh. However, the maximum speed limit of the tunnel itself will remain at 80kmh.
"The Transport Agency takes adjusting speed limits very seriously and we have appreciated people's patience while the necessary investigations, consultation and legal processes were completed."
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The maximum motorway speed around Auckland's Waterview Tunnel will increase from Monday next week. …
Haven Falls can arrange any type of funeral service depending on your family’s spiritual and cultural traditions. We offer 24-hour quality care and professional service Auckland-wide, with funeral packages from $3,990 + GST. No deposit required, 30 day invoice.
Find us at 3 View Road, … View moreHaven Falls can arrange any type of funeral service depending on your family’s spiritual and cultural traditions. We offer 24-hour quality care and professional service Auckland-wide, with funeral packages from $3,990 + GST. No deposit required, 30 day invoice.
Find us at 3 View Road, Henderson.
Phone 09 838 1616 and 0800 428363 or visit our website www.havenfalls.co.nz for more information.
Join us for week 2 of school holiday fun! We’re partnering with MPHS Vision / Twin Streams Oratia and Opanuku so children can explore our local environment and learn while they’re having fun!
Kids will test the local water from our streams, check contamination levels and learn about what … View moreJoin us for week 2 of school holiday fun! We’re partnering with MPHS Vision / Twin Streams Oratia and Opanuku so children can explore our local environment and learn while they’re having fun!
Kids will test the local water from our streams, check contamination levels and learn about what that means for the environment. This educational activity includes an information exhibition focusing on the different streams, insects and bugs that surround Henderson and the Waitakere Ranges.
Children will enjoy viewing the bug display and learning about the different leaves each insect likes to eat. They can create their own native clay animals dressed in leaves plus their own mini stream to take home. Bookings will be taken on the day.
WestCity Waitakere is the place to be these school holidays, so come join in the fun with our FREE and EDUCATIONAL kids activities this July!
Where: WestCity Waitakere
Activities take place next to Stirling Sports on level 2
7 Catherine Street, Henderson, Auckland
Phone: +64 9 978 6700
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I have a new, never used, stainless steel double sink unit, if anyone wants it for free. Pick up in Henderson.
Mobility car park users are being abused by those without a permit and it's getting frustrating. In the space of half an hour nine cars were spotted without a permit, parked in a mobility park, at Kelston shopping mall.
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Press release below from Titirangi Protection Group (TPG). If you care about this issue, the time for submissions is coming soon.
Media Release
Auckland, New Zealand, 13 July 2018
Goff's claim of ‘scrub and gorse’ is nonsense, say treatment plant protesters
Auckland’s … View morePress release below from Titirangi Protection Group (TPG). If you care about this issue, the time for submissions is coming soon.
Media Release
Auckland, New Zealand, 13 July 2018
Goff's claim of ‘scrub and gorse’ is nonsense, say treatment plant protesters
Auckland’s endangered native bush will be destroyed by Watercare’s proposed Titirangi water treatment plant, two new reports reveal.
Seventy per cent of Watercare’s four-hectare treatment site has been described as "endangered forest ecosystem", seriously questioning Auckland Council's claims that the Titirangi forest is expendable.
Watercare originally tried to place its Water Treatment Plant (WTP) in Oratia but when that proposal was defeated by community protest Watercare was forced to shift its focus to Titirangi’s kauri regrowth forests.
"Mayor Phil Goff has described the site as 'mostly scrub and gorse', which is pure stuff and nonsense," says Belynda Groot from the Titirangi Protection Group, the community organisation trying to stop bulldozers moving into the kauri forest. "Two ecological impact reports pour cold water on the idea that nothing of value is going to be destroyed, and one of those reports is from Watercare itself.”
One of the environmental reports was commissioned by Watercare and conducted by Boffa Miskell, while an independent report was written by respected ecologist, Shona Myers. Both reports recognise the high ecological value of the Titirangi site.
According to the Boffa Miskell report: “Our vegetation assessment identifies that endangered or critically endangered forest ecosystem types cover more than 70% of the Project Site.”
The Myers report goes into further detail: “The site itself is representative of regenerating forest types including kauri, present in this part of the foothills. It contains threatened ecosystem types (regenerating kauri forest, broadleaved forest and kahikatea-swamp maire forest) and nationally and regionally threatened species. The site forms linkages and corridors for wildlife with adjoining regional parkland forest.”
The adjoining parkland mentioned by Myers is home to two of Auckland’s oldest kauri (Clarks and Bishop). The reports also reveal that the proposed WTP site forms the headwaters which flow in to the Waituna Stream and Little Muddy Creek, home to endangered native freshwater fish species such as īnanga and long-finned eel.
Belynda Groot, says: “In a recent interview Mayor Goff described the site as mostly scrub and gorse so we hope that in light of evidence from experts, he will reconsider his position. We know that Watercare has been giving politicians a customised tour of a part of the site with the least ecological value, so confusion is understandable.”
Groot says the Titirangi Protection Group understands the need for a new water treatment plant but questions whether Watercare can decimate significant stands of native bush and still claim to prioritise sustainability.
“They need to go back to the long list or come up with a more innovative solution that doesn’t require the destruction of native forest.”
Groot points out that Watercare’s plans for a Titirangi WTP might also fail on a business-case argument. “Watercare admits the Titirangi site is a lot smaller than ideal for the scope of the project.”
Groot says Auckland Council recently closed the Waitakere Ranges to help save kauri from the very serious threat posed by kauri dieback and implemented a targeted rate of $311m to tackle the problem.
“On one hand ratepayers are saving the Waitakere kauri, and on the other hand they want to chop them down. Clean water shouldn’t be at the cost of our precious native forests - there are other more viable and sustainable options.”
ENDS
For comment or interview please reply to this email or contact:
Belynda Groot - Titirangi Protection Group
021 0235 1166
belyndag10@gmail.com
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