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Any consultation, consent?

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A109 Light Utility Helicopter flight with mayor Gisborne City from the air in November 2023.

A109 Light Utility Helicopter flight with mayor Gisborne City from the air in November 2023.

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When did council discuss the spraying of spartina grass in the Taruheru River?

I cannot recall any discussion — or was it one of those “working sessions” that are still unavailable to the public?

As the spraying will bring about landscape and other changes, one assumes that the work has the appropriate resource management consent?

And, dare I ask if the public has in any way been consulted before this decision was taken?

The last discussion I remember that mentioned spartina grass was a hare-brained proposal to construct a weir across the Taruheru to create a recreational lake.

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Roger Handford

Footnote response from Joanna Noble, GDC Sustainable Futures director

Councils have responsibilities to maintain biodiversity for biosecurity management and river flood management.

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We engaged with DoC and there was consultation on the Regional Pest Management Plan (as required by the Biosecurity Act).

Additional context:

DoC has led Spartina eradication projects elsewhere in New Zealand.

See: www.doc.govt.nz/our-work/controlling-spartina/

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