by Cimino | 30 May 2016 | Dredging
Statement of support for resource consent application to undertake capital and maintenance dredging within the Mahurangi River and to deposit dredging materials on land at Hepburn Creek Road Mahurangi Action Incorporated is strongly in support of the application for...
by Cimino | 16 Feb 2016 | Brainstorming breakfasts
February’s was a fizzer; literally a non-event. The first Thursday of the month after the Mahurangi Regatta is generally too soon for anyone involved to have had time to come up for air, and thus February’s should be permanently scotched. But March might be mad, and a...
by Cimino | 11 Sep 2015 | Dredging, Warkworth
Warkworth doesn’t boast of much of a town basin. The tidal Mahurangi River, topographically, terminates in a bit of a tight squeeze, compared with, for example, Whangārei. But what Warkworth lacks by way of a commodious tidehead, it makes up for with in its proximity...
by Kim Jones | 18 Aug 2015 | Fauna
Whitebait Connection Event date 29 August 2015 Whitebait season is upon us, running, in most places, from 15 August to 30 November. For most New Zealanders, whitebait season is closely associated with the word fritter. Love ’em or hate ’em, the little white fish...
by Cimino | 14 Dec 2014 | Sedimentation
Omelettes can’t be made without cracking eggs, nor roads and houses built without moving a certain amount of earth. On the big jobs, such as residential subdivisions, the resource consents required ensure that robust controls are put in place, which are then monitored...
by Cimino | 4 Nov 2014 | Brainstorming breakfasts
Sometimes the bulk of the brainstorming had already occurred. On such occasions, the conversation would be more about canvassing support for the new initiative, although it was rare for further brainstorming not to be a feature of the breakfast. Originally titled the...
