The Sherry River Farmer Catchment Group is half way through its project with the Sustainable Farming Fund on Improving Water Quality Through Whole Catchment Planning.

The three year project is designed to work with farmers on improving water quality through the Motueka ICM project´s underpinning research and established relationship with the group. Landowner Environmental Plans (LEPs) have been completed with farmers, foresters and landowners with waterways on their properties, and these will be the basis for development of a Sherry Catchment Community Plan in the final stage of the project.

Progress was discussed at a community field day on 1 October, with...
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• 1/12/2022 - "Upper Motueka river gravel management (including new Gravel Envelope assessment method)" presented by David Stephenson, TDC at MCC workshop, Tapawera 29 September 2022
  
• 5/07/2022 - "Alternative Approaches to River Management and how they may relate to the Motueka River" by Mike Harvey and Seb den Doncker. Presentation to Motueka Catchment Collective on 27 June 2022
  
• 31/05/2022 - MCC Forestry in the upper Motueka catchment - Heather Arnold OneFortyOne - May2022
  
• 11/04/2022 - Presentation to Motueka Catchment Collective – River Gravel Management (by David Stephenson, Tasman District Council), 11 April 2022
  
• 1/11/2021 - Presentation to Upper Motueka Water Users and MCC Nov 2021 - Water allocation update and monitoring review (J Thomas, A Fenemor)
  
• 1/09/2021 - Upper Motueka Flood Management and the July & Sept 2021 Flooding - TDC presentation to MCC 11 Oct 2021 (M Doyle, B Scoles, R Lowe)