Encouragement for public submissions to the Board of Inquiry, that will review of the impacts of the proposed Ruataniwha water scheme, were called for last night at a public meeting in Clive.
The meeting was called by Transparent Hawke's Bay which continues to lobby Hawke's Bay Regional Council asking for the water scheme to be paused while the project's impact on ratepayers is identified.
Massey University associate professor and local government expert Christine Cheyne was a guest speaker at the evening and said the proposed scheme was an important issue that all the communities of Hawke's Bay will have to deal with.
"I would just like to encourage people to make submissions to the board of enquiry both as individuals and as group submissions."
The regional council's Tukituki catchment will go to an independent Board of Inquiry, to be considered alongside the Ruataniwha scheme.