Just some posts, wire and perhaps a few thousand trees required. Not much, unless you're the person doing it.
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Bang in some fences, pop in some native riparian plants and what a beautiful effective improvement in water quality you have ... yeah, nah.
Living close to Tui brewery I really think this is a yeah right moment.
Last year we fenced 2.4km around waterways ourselves as our fencer kept
getting delayed, these guys are flat out. So it was with open arms that we welcomed two fencers this year, we actually waited around 18 months.
Make no mistake, this will be a beautiful wetlands area. That is once it's fenced, the animals have an alternate water supply and native plants out-compete the current willows. Job done, sounds easy? Let's put some metrics around this fencing venture, in other words, will it cost?
A total of 466m of three-wire electrics up and down hills $3973 ($8.53/m) and 312m eight-wire on the flats $5606 ($17.97/m). It's both hard to get fencers, and hard to accept that doing the right thing comes at a high price, but we have achieved this bit.
