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By David Hill, Local Democracy Reporter
A mahinga kai project in Kaiapoi has been labelled as an "outstanding" community initiative. Mahinga kai is traditional Māori food gathering as well as activities that surround that.
Waimakariri deputy mayor Neville Atkinson says the Huria … View moreBy David Hill, Local Democracy Reporter
A mahinga kai project in Kaiapoi has been labelled as an "outstanding" community initiative. Mahinga kai is traditional Māori food gathering as well as activities that surround that.
Waimakariri deputy mayor Neville Atkinson says the Huria Reserve heritage and mahinga kai area, to the south of Kaiapoi River, was an important part of the town’s regeneration after the 2010 and 2011 earthquakes.
"This is an outstanding project and it has come out at the right cost all the way through," he said.
"It is a very important part of Kaiapoi’s regeneration and it needs to be completed."
The project is a collaboration between the Waimakariri District Council and Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tūāhuriri, and came out of the Kaiapoi residential red zone regeneration plan developed after the earthquakes.
The council has completed physical implementation works over the last two years and has now entered into a formal agreement with Te Kōhaka o Tūhaitara Trust, which will manage the $1.8 million project.
The trust is a partnership between the council, the Rūnanga and the wider community to manage the district's coastal park.
Funding of $390,000 will now be transferred to the trust, from the 2023-24 annual plan.
It was approved at last week’s council meeting, despite a proposal from councillor Paul Williams to defer it due to the economic situation.
He said the trust should be looking for outside funding, like the Honda Forest, which has been developed to the north of Kaiapoi River.
Community and recreation general manager Chris Brown said the council had consulted extensively with the community as part of the regeneration plan and the Long Term Plan process.
"We said to the community we would deliver this project and we intend to deliver it."
Councillor Al Blackie, who is also a Te Kōhaka o Tūhaitara Trust trustee, said the trust intended to seek commercial support and planned to engage with schools and community organisations.
Mayor Dan Gordon said he was pleased to see the project come to fruition.
"The trust will continue to develop this space, which will celebrate traditional Māori customs and promote learning and recreation activity."
Gordon said the council had completed several regeneration projects over the last six years, including sports fields, a BMX track, a dog park, and had redeveloped the marine precinct and the river banks.
A community hub, bringing together organisations such as Satisfy Food Rescue and the Kaiapoi Menz Shed, was also being developed across the road from Huria Reserve.
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By David Hill, Local Democracy Reporter
A project to monitor native birds on the Ashley Rakahuri River has received a funding boost from the Waimakariri Zone Committee.
The Ashley Rakahuri Rivercare Group will receive $9000 from the zone committee’s 2023-24 action plan budget to assist with… View moreBy David Hill, Local Democracy Reporter
A project to monitor native birds on the Ashley Rakahuri River has received a funding boost from the Waimakariri Zone Committee.
The Ashley Rakahuri Rivercare Group will receive $9000 from the zone committee’s 2023-24 action plan budget to assist with the costs of its shorebird monitoring.
The group extended its monitoring efforts last year, engaging a postgraduate student from the University of Canterbury to undertake the work.
The project monitored banded dotterel/turiwhatu, pied stilt (poaka), black-fronted and white-fronted tern/tarapirohe and tara, South Island pied oystercatcher/tōrea and black-billed and black-backed gull/tarāpuka and karoro.
Zone committee chairperson Carolyne Latham said the rivercare group had been working to protect native birds on the river and estuary for several years.
"You have to admire them for getting on with the work," she said.
"We are pleased to be contributing to the extension of that work which will expand the data that we have on the birds."
The rivercare group has been working with Eleanor Gunby, who is studying for a masters of science degree under the supervision of Professor Jim Briskie.
The project was the first to receive funding for the new financial year.
The funding has increased from $50,000 to $75,000 this year and Latham said the committee was keen to hear from other groups working on projects to enhance the environment and water ways.
"We want to hit the ground running this year and so we encourage groups to get in contact with the zone committee if they have a project."
She said the action plan budget funding was similar to the "immediate steps" funding, which zone committees had allocated in the past, but it had greater flexibility.
"We have more scope to support a wider range of projects and an example of this is a water monitoring project by the Waimakariri Landcare Trust, which wouldn’t have qualified under the immediate steps funding. Identifying where groundwater and surface water monitoring is happening in the zone is something we have been talking about at the zone committee for a while.
"We are delighted the trust is proceeding with the project, which will also trial nitrate testing in private wells."
The Waimakariri Landcare Trust’s monitoring project received $26,400 out of the $50,000 available in the zone committee’s 2022-23 action plan budget.
The Waimakariri Zone Committee is a joint committee of Environment Canterbury and the Waimakariri District Council.
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Photo: Banded dotterels (pohowera) pictured on on the the Ashley-Rakahuri River. Photo supplied by Grant Davey of the Ashley-Rakahuri Rivercare Group
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