Our Northland - Tõ Ttou Taitokerau Stories and updates on the great work happening around the region to help our environment, economy and people thrive. Brought to you by Northland Regional Council. Green light for $5M-plus flood works A $5.1 million project to better protect against damaging flooding in and around Otria and Moerewa could be underway within months Pamela-Anne says over the past several years, the working group had workshopped about 20 flood mitigation projects and shortlisted three. Turntable Hill Bridge SH1 flood mitigation works - completed this year (A New Zealand Transport AgencyNRC project after more than 40 affected landowners recently gave their blessing to a proposed new Pokapu Rd bridge and an associated spilway. Otria-Moerewa Flood Miligation Spilway - under way A Kawakawa flood deflection bank - approved in the NRC's Long Term Plan and scheduled for 2024. News construction of the bridge could begin in April next year has been welcomed by Taumarere Pamela-Anne Ngohe-Simon, left, and NRC's She says the regional council had shown Flood Management Working Group member Pamela-Anne Ngohe-Simon for whom the build can't come soon enough. Chantez Connor-Kingi discuss the proposed floodworks considerable patience as it worked through the issues with the community, something she wanted to see acknowledged on behalf of locals. Pamela-Anne, who represents the Otinia Rugoy The spilway will skim the flood flow from the Club on the five-year-old working group, says it met recently at Moerewa to receive the news members had been hoping for, that the project would go ahead. "I really think some of our people don't realise just how beneficial this will be. N's been a kong Otiria Stream and restore natural flow towards the Waiharakeke Stream. (Currently the flow is time coming and we've all worked hard to get to deflected towards houses and two marae and this point." then eventually flows to the Waiharakeke after The bridge - which wil have three 20-metre spans will replace an existing smaller structure and be built from April, with construction of the "We're only paying $600,000 of the $5. 1M involved." That meant the scheme would cost going through houses and the marae.) Pamela-Anne says while the works would not stop flooding altogether, they would deliver 'enormous' benefits, including reducing the severity of a typical flood by about 75% and Pamela-Anne says in heavy rain the Otiria and importantly reduce the risk to currently flood ratepayers just $52 annually, or roughly one dollar a week, for 12 years. spilway likely to begin in about a year's time in late 2022. Working Group members include witangata whenua, KiwiRail, business, farmers, the New Zealand Transport Agency and others. Waiharakeke Streams flood at Otiria and Moerewa because their natural flows are prone marae and the rugby club. Mearwhile, the regional council has acknowledged local siblings Emma Mathews and Sydney Baker who were instrumental in organizing whanau support for the project The residents of Otiria are supportive of the spilway." affected by roading and railroads in the area. In a big flood, about 80 percent of the water from The council says $2.8M of the project cost will the Otiria Stream spils over nearby land as does be met by the central government's regional development organisation Kanoa - RDU, another will be the third bridge built on what was their 70% from the Waiharakeke Stream. The regional council plans to restore the streams' $1.6M from the NRC and the balance -about natural flows by replacing the existing Pokapu Rd $600,000 - via a local rate on about 2300 Bridge and building a new three span 80-metre-long single-lane bridge. family land with the current bridge built in the 1940s. properties in the affected area. That replaced an older bridge Sydney Baker remembers catching eels from as a child. KAIPARA MOANA APPOINTMENT Northland Regional Council Justine Daw has taken the reins as Pou Tataki or head of the programme to restore the health and mauri of Kaipara Moana, the world's second-largest natural harbour. The Kaipara Moana Remediation Programme (KMR) is an ambitious $300 million, decade-long plan to reverse ongoing erivironmental degradation by halving sediment loss from land to sea. Uustine is an experienced executive leader and director who has worked in international relations, commercial consultancy, the environmental sector, and the science and innovation system. Proud to help fund these Efe-saving services Working together to keep Northlanders safe tharks to funding collected through our emergency services rate. More information about KMR can be found online at www.kmr.org.nz For more Info visit www.ne.govt.nzlemergencyservices Northland RECORAL COUNCL Our Northland - Tõ Ttou Taitokerau Stories and updates on the great work happening around the region to help our environment, economy and people thrive. Brought to you by Northland Regional Council. Green light for $5M-plus flood works A $5.1 million project to better protect against damaging flooding in and around Otria and Moerewa could be underway within months Pamela-Anne says over the past several years, the working group had workshopped about 20 flood mitigation projects and shortlisted three. Turntable Hill Bridge SH1 flood mitigation works - completed this year (A New Zealand Transport AgencyNRC project after more than 40 affected landowners recently gave their blessing to a proposed new Pokapu Rd bridge and an associated spilway. Otria-Moerewa Flood Miligation Spilway - under way A Kawakawa flood deflection bank - approved in the NRC's Long Term Plan and scheduled for 2024. News construction of the bridge could begin in April next year has been welcomed by Taumarere Pamela-Anne Ngohe-Simon, left, and NRC's She says the regional council had shown Flood Management Working Group member Pamela-Anne Ngohe-Simon for whom the build can't come soon enough. Chantez Connor-Kingi discuss the proposed floodworks considerable patience as it worked through the issues with the community, something she wanted to see acknowledged on behalf of locals. Pamela-Anne, who represents the Otinia Rugoy The spilway will skim the flood flow from the Club on the five-year-old working group, says it met recently at Moerewa to receive the news members had been hoping for, that the project would go ahead. "I really think some of our people don't realise just how beneficial this will be. N's been a kong Otiria Stream and restore natural flow towards the Waiharakeke Stream. (Currently the flow is time coming and we've all worked hard to get to deflected towards houses and two marae and this point." then eventually flows to the Waiharakeke after The bridge - which wil have three 20-metre spans will replace an existing smaller structure and be built from April, with construction of the "We're only paying $600,000 of the $5. 1M involved." That meant the scheme would cost going through houses and the marae.) Pamela-Anne says while the works would not stop flooding altogether, they would deliver 'enormous' benefits, including reducing the severity of a typical flood by about 75% and Pamela-Anne says in heavy rain the Otiria and importantly reduce the risk to currently flood ratepayers just $52 annually, or roughly one dollar a week, for 12 years. spilway likely to begin in about a year's time in late 2022. Working Group members include witangata whenua, KiwiRail, business, farmers, the New Zealand Transport Agency and others. Waiharakeke Streams flood at Otiria and Moerewa because their natural flows are prone marae and the rugby club. Mearwhile, the regional council has acknowledged local siblings Emma Mathews and Sydney Baker who were instrumental in organizing whanau support for the project The residents of Otiria are supportive of the spilway." affected by roading and railroads in the area. In a big flood, about 80 percent of the water from The council says $2.8M of the project cost will the Otiria Stream spils over nearby land as does be met by the central government's regional development organisation Kanoa - RDU, another will be the third bridge built on what was their 70% from the Waiharakeke Stream. The regional council plans to restore the streams' $1.6M from the NRC and the balance -about natural flows by replacing the existing Pokapu Rd $600,000 - via a local rate on about 2300 Bridge and building a new three span 80-metre-long single-lane bridge. family land with the current bridge built in the 1940s. properties in the affected area. That replaced an older bridge Sydney Baker remembers catching eels from as a child. KAIPARA MOANA APPOINTMENT Northland Regional Council Justine Daw has taken the reins as Pou Tataki or head of the programme to restore the health and mauri of Kaipara Moana, the world's second-largest natural harbour. The Kaipara Moana Remediation Programme (KMR) is an ambitious $300 million, decade-long plan to reverse ongoing erivironmental degradation by halving sediment loss from land to sea. Uustine is an experienced executive leader and director who has worked in international relations, commercial consultancy, the environmental sector, and the science and innovation system. Proud to help fund these Efe-saving services Working together to keep Northlanders safe tharks to funding collected through our emergency services rate. More information about KMR can be found online at www.kmr.org.nz For more Info visit www.ne.govt.nzlemergencyservices Northland RECORAL COUNCL