Hurunui-Waiau Water Management Committee Meeting

Hurunui-Waiau Water Management Zone Committee Meeting

The Hurunui-Waiau Zone Committee will consider its work programme and Immediate Steps biodiversity priorities at its first ordinary meeting on Monday.

The 11 members of the Committee – the first to be established under the Canterbury Water Management Strategy – will meet at 3pm on 26 July in the Hurunui District Council Chambers in Amberley. The meeting is open to members of the public and is expected to finish about 9pm.

Around $100,000 of Immediate Steps funding is available for the Hurunui-Waiau zone in the 2010/11 year. The Committee will begin to consider how this funding should be allocated with final recommendations expected by December 2010.

There will be presentations to the meeting on Nga Runanga and water (afternoon) and on “Hydrology 101” (evening).

The Hurunui-Waiau zone committee is made up of seven community representatives (John Faulkner, Ken Hughey, Andrew Harris, Mike Hodgen, Michele Hawke, Tony Hawker, and David Eder), Norm Kerei-Keepa (Te Runanag o Kaikoura), Makarini Rupene (Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga), Councillor Winton Dalley from Hurunui and Environment Canterbury Commissioner David Bedford.

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