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The Toitū Te Hakapupu project team has been working with the community to develop a catchment action plan for the Pleasant River catchment.
A catchment action plan provides important direction in working to protect or enhance an area. It can:
Below is a brief timeline detailing the development of the catchment action plan.
Community workshop #1 (more information below)
Whirika prepared a Context Analysis report to collate information about the catchment, and to inform the development of the catchment action plan. This included, but was not limited to, the following:
Community workshop #2 (more information below)
These hui helped to support the development of the catchment action plan.
Whirika (formally Ahikā) Consulting developed a draft catchment action plan based on workshop feedback and scientific information and submitted it to ORC.
Whirika (formally Ahikā) worked with ORC to ensure the draft plan aligns with:
Work will continue with members and representatives of Kāti Huirapa Rūnaka ki Puketeraki and East Otago Catchment Group to further develop and refine the draft catchment action plan.
The plan will then be released to the community (and available on this web page – see below) and feedback will be collected through a community workshop, likely to be in August 2024.
Following this workshop, the catchment action plan will then be updated based on the community input.
On 24 May 2023 we held a community workshop to discuss and build on previous community input.
We outlined what a catchment management plan is and what it can do before breaking into groups and asking the following of those present:
The workshop also explored the potential for community-led monitoring in the catchment. This monitoring could help evaluate whether actions set out in the catchment management plan are effective.
Another community hui was held on 14 August 2023 focusing on actions that would improve the health of the catchment.
Areas of discussion included: