by Cimino | 1 Apr 2019 | Dredging, Warkworth Town Hall Talk
As of midnight last Monday, dredging the town basin and river downstream became the most urgent Mahurangi project. Up until that deadline, feedback on the structure plan that will shape development of Mahurangi’s tidehead town for the next 30 climate-tumultuous years...
by Cimino | 15 Jan 2019 | Dredging, Regatta 2019, Warkworth, Warkworth Town Hall Talk
Mahurangi Magazine has stuck its neck out by soliciting support for its suggested solution to the ugly butt of the Old Masonic Hall. The timing was poor. Six days before Christmas meant that most folk missed the email and, as of this morning, only 30 had clicked the...
by Cimino | 30 Dec 2018 | Dredging, Regatta 2019
There could only be one flagship for the ‘Up the Mahu!’ day-after-the-regatta flotilla. She will lead the demonstration of support, departing the Scotts Landing jetty at midday. The Jane Gifford scow, aside from being the face of the Mahurangi Regatta since 2010,...
by Cimino | 24 Dec 2018 | Dredging, Local board, Paths and trails, Warkworth Town Hall Talk
Warkworth Town Hall, inescapably, is where the community should assemble to make decisions for itself. Not the Auckland Town Hall, with its region-wide responsibilities for a city of 1.7 million. In a slightly less imperfect world, Mahurangi and districts would have...
by Cimino | 15 Dec 2018 | Fauna, Warkworth Town Hall Talk
Whitebait deserve layer too Waiwera – Waipū When a Warkworth Town Hall Talk catalysed the Mahurangi-based green-lipped mussel reef restoration research project, it triggered a veritable chain reaction. The immediate impact was to shock the community into taking...
by Cimino | 8 Dec 2018 | Fauna, Warkworth, Weirs
Millennia before human habitation, the natural sandstone weir at the Mahurangi River tidehead would have formed a formidable barrier to īnanga in their imperative to migrate from the sea to freshwater reaches. Then, over about the last 6000 years, towards its lower,...
