A national campaign has been launched to reduce the amount of household food waste New Zealanders discard each year. The “Love Food, Hate Waste” campaign is being run by councils nationwide and aims to significantly reduce the estimated $872 million in food that Kiwi households waste annually.
With summer now passed, the likelihood of significant rainfall and high winds is increasing, and it’s an opportune time to prepare for the autumn and winter ahead.
A new land-based dredging approach being trialled at the Whakatāne River entrance is providing promising results, with significant improvements in channel depth achieved in the last week.
The second stage of Wainui Road’s safety improvement programme will require the closure of the section of the road between McCoy and Stanley Roads between 9 am and 3:30 pm each day, from Monday, 23 March until Friday, 27 March.
Essential maintenance work on the wastewater system in the north-western area of Whakatāne over the next week will require residents to take action to ensure any pressurisation of sewer lines does not result in water being expelled from their toilet bowls.
A card offering useful information and retail discounts for young Whakatāne District residents has been released by the Whakatāne District Youth Council.
The Whakatāne District Council has delayed a decision to adopt ‘Wharaurangi’ as the name for 136 The Strand – the new pedestrian plaza which forms a visual and physical link between Whakatāne’s escarpment, CBD, riverside area and the coast.
The Waiewe Reserve Restoration Group is celebrating several years of hard work with a Picnic in the Paddock for the local community on Saturday, 28 March 2015.
A condition assessment report on the Whakatāne Wharf has confirmed additional deterioration since it was last inspected in 2009 and sets out a number of options for repairing the structure and carrying out the required level of seismic strengthening.
The Whakatāne District Council’s 2015-25 Long Term Plan (LTP) has been approved for public consultation, together with a raft of supporting documents and draft policies and proposals.
An investigation of possible flood mitigation options for the Wainui Te Whara Stream in Whakatāne has indicated that channel re-grading and deepening is likely to be the fastest and most cost-effective way to reduce the risk of future stopbank overtopping.
Work to upgrade sections of the Nga Tapuwae o Toi walking track and barrier rails between Ōhope Beach and Ōtarawairere Bay has been completed and is receiving praise from the public.
A health warning has been issued for Lake Rotoehu, as routine monitoring results provided by the Bay of Plenty Regional Council have confirmed a bloom of potentially toxic blue-green algae.
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