Young cattle graze and paddle around a coastal Whanganui stream. Photo / Nicola Patrick
Kai Iwi landowners George Matthews and David Cotton are calling a public meeting to address the water quality of local streams.
The meeting is at the Rapanui/Mowhanau Community Centre at 7pm on Monday, March 9, with a light supper to follow. They want everyone with an interest in freshwater issues
to come.
Attendees will be asked whether they want to form a catchment group and get proactive about water quality. Matthews has tentatively named the initiative the Western Whanganui Catchment Change and Innovation Project.
There are five catchments involved, he said. Starting from the west they are the Okeku, the Ototoka, the Kai Iwi, the Mowhanau and the Omapu. Together they drain an area of 323,666 hectares.
"It's pretty ambitious - that's a big block," Matthews said.
