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Roding Water Reserve

Aniseed Valley Road

Nelson

The Roding Water Reserve covers the headwater catchment of the Roding River inland (southeast) from Nelson City on the slopes of the Bryant Range and Jenkins Hill. Main access is provided from the end of Aniseed Valley Road. Part of the Coppermine Trail traverses the upper reaches of the Roding Water Reserve.

The reserve adjoins the Department of Conservation-administered Mt Richmond Forest Park across the Bryant Range to the southeast, Maitai Water Reserve to the northeast, Brook Conservation Reserve to the north, Marsden Valley Reserve to the northwest and privately-owned farm and forestry land in the lower Aniseed valley to the southwest.

By 1938 Nelson City Council had acquired the land and set about constructing the Roding Waterworks Scheme, which officially opened in October 1941. It represented a great feat of engineering, especially the construction of the 2.68 kilometre pipeline through the hill to Marsden Valley. The level of the dam was raised in 1972 to increase capacity and to this day it supplies one third of Nelson city’s annual water needs. As this is still an active catchment, a caretaker is on duty at all times and walkers are asked to take extra care in the area.

Various walking tracks cover a range of terrain from forestry plantations to some fairly rugged native bush. You can choose short walks of about an hour or so with an easy gradient or choose a range of longer hikes, some linking to the Dun Mountain Railway, the Hackett, the Maitai Dam and the Barnicoat Range.

Plans

Go to the Conservation and Landscape Reserves Management Plan 2009

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Amenities

  • Roding Dam (water supply)
  • Walking Tracks include parts of the historic Dun Mountain Walkway/Coppermine Trail and tracks to historic mines. The Roding is largely free of tracks and is considered a priority for retaining as a wilderness habitat area.
  • Historic sites including several copper and chromite mines and the Dun Mountain Railway.
  • Part of the area is within an ultramafic zone where endemic plants to this area can be found.

Dogs

Dogs and prohibited.

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