by Cimino | 24 Nov 2018 | Action plan planning
Billed as a district and regional council initiative, the goal of the Mahurangi Action Plan, when launched in 2004, was to kickstart the fencing and planting of riparian margins, and after five years leave a community motivated and organised to continue the work to...
by Cimino | 9 Nov 2018 | Marine farming, Membership and bequests, Mussel action
Text as published in the 2019 Mahurangi Cruising Club Yearbook Green-lipped-mussel-reef establishment might seem an unlikely choice for a climate-change tour-de-force by the organisation that revived the Mahurangi Regatta 42 years ago this summer. But Mahurangi Action...
by Cimino | 11 Aug 2018 | Action plan, Aquaculture, Marine farming, Mussel action, Sedimentation
The first time science brought its muscle to bear was in 2004. After ten years of studies aimed at baselining selected catchments ahead of urban development impacts, the scientists involved persuaded the former Auckland Regional Council that urgent intervention was...
by Cimino | 27 Mar 2018 | Dredging
As submitted by Mahurangi Action Incorporated 28 March 2018: Mahurangi Action supports the urgent funding of the consented dredging of sediment from the Mahurangi River, to restore the navigability of the river up to and including the Warkworth Town Basin. The...
by Cimino | 24 Mar 2018 | Dredging, Local, Local board, Warkworth
At least Ōrewa is equally inconvenient for all Rodney residents. In its case for twin local board areas, the Mahurangi Magazine pointed out: So disparate are the areas, that meetings of the Rodney Local Board are held in Ōrewa, which is in neither half. Now,...
by Cimino | 6 Oct 2017 | Fauna, Sedimentation, Warkworth, Warkworth Town Hall Talk, Weirs
Mahurangi was always going to need all the help it could get. When, in 2004, the then Auckland Regional Council announced a $3 million, 5-year kickstart to address the harbour’s elevated sediment accumulation rate, Mahurangi Action was advised, regarding a similar...
