June 27, 2016
Trust tackles toxic Tutira
Maungaharuru-Tangitu Trust is looking for a manager to oversee a two-year project to improve the mauri and water quality of Lake Tutira in northwest Hawkes Bay
The post-settlement entity has secured $644,000 for the 'Tutira mai nga iwi' project, which will use different knowledge systems including matauranga Maori, local environmental knowledge, science, policy and planning.
Planned actions include wananga, pest plant removal, planting, fencing, science reporting, landowner and community engagement.
The hapu speak of the lake as "ko te waiu o o tatau tipuna" – the milk of our ancestors, in reference to the food it once produced.
But more than 100 years of sedimentation and pollution has affected water quality.
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