North Canterbury News: February 15, 2024
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RURAL LIFE<br />
<strong>North</strong> <strong>Canterbury</strong> <strong>News</strong>, <strong>February</strong> <strong>15</strong>, <strong>2024</strong><br />
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Restoration project. .. The site of atwohectare wetland restoration project at Saltwater<br />
Creek.<br />
PHOTO: CHRISSY TAYLORCLAUDE<br />
Restoration project<br />
By SHELLEY TOPP<br />
The WaimakaririBiodiversity Trust is<br />
leading atwohectarewetland restoration<br />
project at Saltwater Creek.<br />
The twoyear project is being run in<br />
conjunction with the Japaneseowned,<br />
Seftonbased mediumdensity fibreboard<br />
manufacturer Daiken New Zealand.<br />
Daiken will fund plants, fencing,<br />
maintenance and public access for the<br />
project.<br />
The company suggested the project<br />
during ameeting with the Sefton<br />
Saltwater Creek Catchment Group in<br />
November 2022.<br />
The wetlands site is upstream from<br />
where aspill occurred from the Daiken<br />
factory into the creek last September.<br />
The restorationproject has also<br />
received a$<strong>15</strong>,600 grant from the<br />
Waimakariri Water Zone's action fund,<br />
which has funded initial investigations by<br />
an ecologist and hydrologist to determine<br />
site conditions.<br />
Their reports are due later this month.<br />
Atrust spokesperson says that Daiken<br />
has already hosted avisit to the site, which<br />
is on Daikenownedland, from ‘‘keen<br />
AshleyRakahuri Primary School students<br />
who are incorporating the wetland project<br />
into their Enviroschools programme’’.<br />
Trust coordinator Lucy Barltrop held a<br />
stream exploration day last November for<br />
the students.<br />
The first restoration planting days are<br />
scheduled for this autumn.<br />
People wanting to take part can contact<br />
Lucy for more information at: office@wbt.<br />
org.nz.<br />
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