Our Northland - Tõ Ttou Taitokerau Our Stories and updates on the great work happening around the region to help our environment, economy and people thrive. Brought to you by Northland Regional Council. Green light for $5M-plus flood works Pamela-Anne says over the past several years, the working group had workshopped about 20 A $5.1 million project to better protect against damaging flooding in and around Otria and Moerewa could be underway within months after more than 40 affected flood mitigation projects and shortisted three. Turntable Hill Bridge SH1 flood mitigation works - completed this year (A New Zealand Transport Agency/NRC project landowners recently gave their blessing to a proposed new Pokapu Rd bridge and an associated spillway. Otiria-Moerewa Flood Mitigation Spillway - under way A Kawakawa flood deflection bank - News construction of the bridge could begin in April next year has been welcomed by Taumarere Flood Management Working Group member Pamela-Anne Ngohe-Simon for whom the build can't come soon enough. approved in the NRC's Long Term Plan and scheduled for 2024. Pamela-Anne Ngohe-Simon, left, and NRC's Chantez Connor-Kingi discuss the proposed considerable patience as it worked through the floodworks She says the regional council had shown issues with the community, something she wanted to see acknowledged on behai of locals. Pamela-Anne, who represents the Otiria Rugby Club on the five-year-old working group, says it met recently at Moerewa to receive the news members had been hoping for, that the project would go ahead. The spilway will skim the flood flow from the Otiria Stream and restore natural flow towards "I really think some of our people don't realise just how beneficial this will be. It's been a long time coming and we've al worked hard to get to this point." the Waiharakeke Stream. (Currently the flow is deflected towards houses and two marae and The bridge - which will have three 20-metre spans - will replace an existing smaller structure and be built from April, with construction of the spilway likely to begin in about a year's time then eventualy fows to the Waiharakeke after going through houses and the marae.) Pamela-Anne says while the works would not stop 552 annually, or roughly one dollar a week, for 12 flooding altogether, they would deliver 'enomous benefits, including reducing the severity of a typical flood by about 75% and importantly reduce the risk Working Group members include iwi/tangata We're only paying S600,000 of the $5.1M involved." That meant the scheme would cost ratepayers just years. in late 2022. Pamela-Anne says in heavy rain the Otiria and Waiharakeke Streams flood at Otiria and Moerewa o currently flood prone marae and the rugby club. whenua, KiwiRail, business, farmers, the New because their natural flows are affected by roading The residents of Otiria are supportive of the and railroads in the area. Zealand Transport Agency and others. Meanwhile, the regional council has acknowledged local siblings Emma Mathews and Sydney Baker who were instrumental in organizing whanau support for the project. spilway." In a big flood, about 80 percent of the water from The council says $2.8M of the project cost wil the Otiria Stream spils over nearby land as does be met by the central government's regional 70% from the Waiharakeko Stream, development organisation Kanoa - RDU, another It will be the third bridge built on what was their family land with the current bridge built in the 1940s. $1.6M from the NRC and the balance -about The regional council plans to restore the streams se00.000 - via a local rate on about 2300 natural flows by replacing the existing Pokapu Rd Bridge and building a new three span 60-metre-long single-lane bridge. properties in the affected area. That replaced an older bridge Sydney Baker remembers catching eels from as a child. ARA M MENT Northland Regional Council Justine Daw has taken the reins as Pou Tataki or head of the programme to restore the health and mauri of Kaipara Moana, the world's second-largest natüral harbour. The Kaipara Moana Remediation Programme (KMR) is an ambitious $300 million, decade-long plan to reverse ongoing environimental degradation by halving sediment loss from land to sea. Proud to help fund these life-saving services Working together to keep Northlanders safe thanks to Jastine is an experienced executive leader and director who has worked in international relations, commercial consultancy, the environmental sector, and the scierice and innovation system More information about KMR can be found online at www.kmr.org.nz funding collected through our emergency services rate. For more info visit www.nrc.govt.nz/emergencyservices Our Northland - Tõ Ttou Taitokerau Our Stories and updates on the great work happening around the region to help our environment, economy and people thrive. Brought to you by Northland Regional Council. Green light for $5M-plus flood works Pamela-Anne says over the past several years, the working group had workshopped about 20 A $5.1 million project to better protect against damaging flooding in and around Otria and Moerewa could be underway within months after more than 40 affected flood mitigation projects and shortisted three. Turntable Hill Bridge SH1 flood mitigation works - completed this year (A New Zealand Transport Agency/NRC project landowners recently gave their blessing to a proposed new Pokapu Rd bridge and an associated spillway. Otiria-Moerewa Flood Mitigation Spillway - under way A Kawakawa flood deflection bank - News construction of the bridge could begin in April next year has been welcomed by Taumarere Flood Management Working Group member Pamela-Anne Ngohe-Simon for whom the build can't come soon enough. approved in the NRC's Long Term Plan and scheduled for 2024. Pamela-Anne Ngohe-Simon, left, and NRC's Chantez Connor-Kingi discuss the proposed considerable patience as it worked through the floodworks She says the regional council had shown issues with the community, something she wanted to see acknowledged on behai of locals. Pamela-Anne, who represents the Otiria Rugby Club on the five-year-old working group, says it met recently at Moerewa to receive the news members had been hoping for, that the project would go ahead. The spilway will skim the flood flow from the Otiria Stream and restore natural flow towards "I really think some of our people don't realise just how beneficial this will be. It's been a long time coming and we've al worked hard to get to this point." the Waiharakeke Stream. (Currently the flow is deflected towards houses and two marae and The bridge - which will have three 20-metre spans - will replace an existing smaller structure and be built from April, with construction of the spilway likely to begin in about a year's time then eventualy fows to the Waiharakeke after going through houses and the marae.) Pamela-Anne says while the works would not stop 552 annually, or roughly one dollar a week, for 12 flooding altogether, they would deliver 'enomous benefits, including reducing the severity of a typical flood by about 75% and importantly reduce the risk Working Group members include iwi/tangata We're only paying S600,000 of the $5.1M involved." That meant the scheme would cost ratepayers just years. in late 2022. Pamela-Anne says in heavy rain the Otiria and Waiharakeke Streams flood at Otiria and Moerewa o currently flood prone marae and the rugby club. whenua, KiwiRail, business, farmers, the New because their natural flows are affected by roading The residents of Otiria are supportive of the and railroads in the area. Zealand Transport Agency and others. Meanwhile, the regional council has acknowledged local siblings Emma Mathews and Sydney Baker who were instrumental in organizing whanau support for the project. spilway." In a big flood, about 80 percent of the water from The council says $2.8M of the project cost wil the Otiria Stream spils over nearby land as does be met by the central government's regional 70% from the Waiharakeko Stream, development organisation Kanoa - RDU, another It will be the third bridge built on what was their family land with the current bridge built in the 1940s. $1.6M from the NRC and the balance -about The regional council plans to restore the streams se00.000 - via a local rate on about 2300 natural flows by replacing the existing Pokapu Rd Bridge and building a new three span 60-metre-long single-lane bridge. properties in the affected area. That replaced an older bridge Sydney Baker remembers catching eels from as a child. ARA M MENT Northland Regional Council Justine Daw has taken the reins as Pou Tataki or head of the programme to restore the health and mauri of Kaipara Moana, the world's second-largest natüral harbour. The Kaipara Moana Remediation Programme (KMR) is an ambitious $300 million, decade-long plan to reverse ongoing environimental degradation by halving sediment loss from land to sea. Proud to help fund these life-saving services Working together to keep Northlanders safe thanks to Jastine is an experienced executive leader and director who has worked in international relations, commercial consultancy, the environmental sector, and the scierice and innovation system More information about KMR can be found online at www.kmr.org.nz funding collected through our emergency services rate. For more info visit www.nrc.govt.nz/emergencyservices