North Canterbury News: December 10, 2020
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36 <strong>North</strong> <strong>Canterbury</strong> <strong>News</strong>, <strong>December</strong> <strong>10</strong>, <strong>2020</strong><br />
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Environmentally friendly ... Kaikoura plains farmers have been working to reduce their environmental impact.<br />
Environmental efforts pay off<br />
By DAVID HILL<br />
Kaikoura farmers are doing their bit for<br />
their environment.<br />
The Kaikoura Plains Recovery Project<br />
team has been supporting landowners to<br />
reduce their impact on the environment<br />
as part of their recovery from the<br />
November 2016 earthquake.<br />
After the 2016 <strong>North</strong> <strong>Canterbury</strong><br />
earthquake, astudy was undertaken to<br />
assess the damage, habitat, and health of<br />
streams in Kaikoura’s Lyell Creek/<br />
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Waikoau catchment. ‘‘Critical source<br />
areas’’ were identified, including newly<br />
created springs, bank slumping, erosion<br />
and <strong>10</strong>4 overland flow paths.<br />
Project manager Jodie Hoggard says<br />
managing these areas can be relatively<br />
straightforward by starting small.<br />
“Getting in touch with your local<br />
Environment <strong>Canterbury</strong> (ECan) office<br />
can be agood first step.<br />
‘‘There are lots of people there ready<br />
and willing to help you find good<br />
methods for protecting our precious wai<br />
(water).”<br />
Such areas can include pugged areas,<br />
raceways, stock crossings, and springs,<br />
which often form in lowlying parts of<br />
farms such as gullies.<br />
They carried contaminants such as<br />
nitrogen, phosphorus and sediment,<br />
which impacts the water clarity, quality,<br />
and freshwater biodiversity values.<br />
By managing critical source areas,<br />
sediment and nutrient loss can be<br />
reduced and water quality improved.<br />
It can also help farmers to meet good<br />
management practice and the conditions<br />
of their Farm Environment Plan.<br />
The project has worked, with ECan<br />
and local landowners showing on two<br />
demonstration sites how simple<br />
interventions such as fencing and<br />
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planting can reduce the impacts of<br />
sedimentation and erosion.<br />
One site was awetland area on asmall<br />
sheep and beef farm on the Kaikoura<br />
Flats. The work was undertaken on<br />
about 1800 square metres and flows into<br />
Warrens Creek.<br />
The first step was to remove stock and<br />
fence off the area to allow it to<br />
regenerate, Mrs Hoggard said.<br />
“By removing stock, we saw a<br />
significant growth of cutty grass (Carex<br />
geminata)which provides great filtering<br />
qualities, stabilises banks, enhances<br />
biodiversity and mahinga kai values,<br />
and increases habitat for native bird and<br />
animal species.”<br />
Willow control was also completed.<br />
The second site, Maghera farm, has<br />
more than 3500 square metres of<br />
waterways across <strong>10</strong> critical source<br />
areas, making it one of the most<br />
significant in the catchment.<br />
The dairy farm sits alongside 507<br />
metres of springfed stream flowing into<br />
Lyell Creek/ Waikoau.<br />
Acommunity planting day was<br />
organised by ECan and Fonterra, and<br />
more than 600 metres of fencing was<br />
completed, with 500 sedges, shrubs and<br />
trees planted to improve water quality<br />
and biodiversity values.<br />
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