August 23 2022
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Community power digs deep Crop tests rebooted
Crops have been chosen for the second yearly …
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Truth on the election trail
With a heated 30-person race for council and mayoral office …
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p Local muscle power and an excavator supplied by the Kaipara District Council joined forces to make improvements to the Baylys Beach dunescape this month. It was a chilly day, but a warm feeling pervaded the small army of Baylys Beach volunteers who turned out last week to beautify and protect the seashore. Three hundred spinifex dune grasses were planted. Locals in their cold-weather gear planted the stabilising, erosion-fighting native flora while an excavator cleared sand from the Baylys Beach boardwalk. With storms lashing the coast during late winter, the importance of dune-forming protective grasses like spinifex has been brought into focus, with planting efforts both at Baylys and down the Ripiro coast at Glinks Gully.
Clearer stormwater strategy u by Andy Bryenton
The Kaipara District Council has made a detailed submission on the Water Services Entities bill, with special mention of how stormwater services in Kaipara may be challenging to homogenise.
Make cats bat safe
The Department of Conservation has physical proof that cats target native pekapeka bats …
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The bill, if enacted, will help usher in Three Waters. However, the KDC and other councils with large areas of stormwater and drainage operations have questioned its implementation, stating that hyper-local drainage authorities will be a difficult fit.
“Stormwater connects closely with a variety of other territorial authority roles and functions, including flood and drainage management, roading, parks, placemaking and greenspace,” said Mayor Jason Smith and elected members in their submission to the government.
“Given the inherent links between stormwater and other territorial authority services and functions, it may be difficult or unnecessary to immediately transfer stormwater assets. Therefore, the bill must provide a provision where the territorial continued on page 3 …
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