A Day in the Catchment
Wednesday, 22 October 2003
Open to all Project Leaders, programme participants, interested Stakeholders and Community Members
Field trip to Tapawera and Ngatimoti with poster displays and discussion of progress to date on key projects in the Motueka ICM Programme, and opportunity for community comment on environmental and growth challenges in the catchment.
The bus for the Wednesday field trip
leaves the Cawthron/Landcare office in Nelson at 9 a.m. To plan for
catering, transport etc please advise Mark Adamson at our Nelson office
(ph 03 545 7701 email AdamsonM@landcareresearch.co.nz ), by Friday 17 October if
you wish to come on the bus trip.
Below is a list of the poster titles/topics
available on the field trip.
09:00 Bus leaves Nelson
10:15 Motueka River at Tapawera Bridge:
Reviews and discussion on
- Trends in Riverbed levels and Implications for River Gravel Extraction
- Upper Motueka Rivercare Group perspective and river management issues
- Upper Motueka Groundwater Resource Availability and Age, and Water Allocation Implications
- Water resource issues for irrigators
11:30 Bus departs to Ngatimoti
12:30 Ngatimoti Hall (possibly via school and/or Peninsula Bridge)
LUNCH (provided)
1:00 Poster displays and short talks:
- Overview of ICM research programme (Andrew Fenemor)
- 5-minute introduction to each poster (poster authors)
Includes opportunity for riverbank, bridge or hall discussion on questions like……
- How does water quality and fish habitat change down the catchment?
- Where's the sediment entering the rivers and can we control it any better?
- If Moutere groundwater is 20000 years old, why worry about effects of forestry on groundwater recharge?
- How often will Motueka River floods damage the scallop and mussel harvest?
- What objectives do local iwi have for environmental management in the Motueka?
- What native plants look best for stabilising riverbanks, or improving water quality?
- How best can we learn together about being good stewards of our catchment environment?
- Residents and visitors' perspectives on local environmental and catchment management issues
4:00 Bus returns to Nelson via lower Motueka River, and Motueka
7:00 Dinner with Community Reference Group members and partners; venue to be advised
Poster Titles
- Overview of ICM with copies of Technical Report (Andrew Fenemor)
- Catchment nutrient discharges: Good and bad news for the management of fish and shellfish resources in Tasman Bay. (Paul Gillespie)
- Riparian vegetation classification and enhancement opportunities, Sherry River (Lisa Langer)
- Cows & creeks (Rob Davies-Colley)
- Cows OUT of creeks. Water quality improvements in the Sherry R following raceway bridging (Rob Davies-Colley)
- Waiwhero water use and Moutere aquifer recharge (Tim Davie, Mike Stewart and others)
- Is the Motueka Healthy? - Insights from Invertebrates (Roger Young)
- What's happening to the Motueka riverbed? (Les Basher)
- How does sediment affect trout in the Motueka River? (Roger Young & Les Basher)
- Performance of native riparian plants - how different are they? (Chris Phillips & Mike Marden)
- Modelling Impacts of Land Cover on Critical Water Resources of the Motueka River Watershed, NZ (Cao, Bowden, Davie, Fenemor)
- Iwi poster(s)… (Garth Harmsworth)
- Collaborative learning? (Will, Margaret, Glen)
There is also likely to be a range of other information such as maps, phototgraphs and reports on display.