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Barring a tropical low, all settled for Sullivans
A week away from the Mahurangi Regatta, the venue looks set to stay at Sullivans Bay. With the wind rising this morning and 35 knots and heavy rain forecast to peak tomorrow night, it is somewhat reassuring to see that MetVUW’s charts for 26 January, regatta...
What time’s the tide on Saturday 24 January 2060?
Speculative and unhelpful. These are the words the Honourable Peter Salmon QC used when chastising the New Zealand Herald for its front page announcing Auckland is to become a super city with a London-style mayor with executive powers. In May 2008, at the Royal...
Perennial regatta press gang
Updated 20 January, with gratitude In truth, most who toil at the Mahurangi Regatta are regulars in the spirit of Clive Dunn’s Dad’s Army character: ‘I should like to be the one that volunteers, Suh!’ But the difference between it being a breeze or a bother, for those...
Wastewater plant upgrade not exactly nothing
Many reading A Muddy Brown Colour would have suspected, of course, that Rodney District Council was in fact doing something about its notoriously leaky old sewerage system. Most, however, would be astonished to learn the half of the council’s short, medium and...
Council checked stormwater outflows
Letter I read A Muddy Brown Colour today and share the concern expressed about farm and urban pollution that flows into the Mahurangi. I also thought however, that it is worth pointing out one factual error (it might be useful if confronting the council etc.), which...
Warkworth wastewater treatment peak flow upgrade update
Veolia Systems has won the contract to supply a peak flow treatment system, which will be installed and commissioned before December 2008, as required by the new resource consent. Also associated with the upgrade will be a Timbertank (ex Tindall’s Bay reservoir),...
Beyond the action plan rules of engagement
Updated 10 January 2008 The Mahurangi Action Plan has officially entered a new and crucial phase— one in which even the name may change. At a meeting of its environmental management committee, on 11 December, the Auckland Regional Council endorsed the engagement...
Kid’s eco-camps continue wholesome tradition
The two ‘eco-camps’ planned this month for 8–13-year-olds as part of the Mahurangi Action Plan activities continue a worthy tradition of summer camps in the harbour. The Schoolhouse Bay property, which Rex Fairburn found for Mahurangi Action founder…