Council gives green light to stage 2 of Taylor River
Improvement Project
Marlborough District Council’s
Environment Committee has agreed in principle to fund
$209,600 over four years to enable stage two of the Taylor
River Improvement Project, matching a government
grant.
The government grant of $261,950 was applied for
earlier this year and today’s decision by Council to fund
stage two means once final approval from the Ministry for
the Environment Freshwater Improvement Fund is received, the
programme to help restore the health of the town’s Taylor
River can get underway.
Focusing on the two main issues
facing the river - E.coli and sedimentation from run-off and
bank erosion - a local stakeholder group, including the
Council’s Reserves team, the local landscape group,
schools, iwi, viticulture and pastoral farming
representatives, will expand the riparian plantings along
the riverbank over the next five years.
Native plantings
will not only act as a buffer, protecting the Taylor River
and its main feeder Doctors Creek from sediment, but will
also provide shading and benefit the ecology in the
streams.
Blenheim’s Taylor River is a central feature of
the town and although it’s a floodway, it is also an
important recreational area. These two important
improvements will allow the river to become swimmable most
of the
time.
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