Healthy Streams
Healthy Streams is Council's freshwater improvement programme. It pulls together the many streams of our work to improve Nelson's freshwater assets, including community programmes like Project Maitai/Mahitahi and Wakapuaka Bursting into Life, and work funded by the Ministry of Primary Industries' Hill Country Erosion Fund.
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Story Maps
These story maps tell the tales of our community actions around our local streams
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Maitai Oral Histories
Oral histories of the Maitai Valley, from the people who grew up, lived and worked here.
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Healthy Streams Field Guides
The Field Guide project is the result of collaboration between Council, Cawthron Institute and Media Design students from Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology.
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Videos
Healthy Streams publishes a regular page in the Nelson Leader, showcasing what is happening in our Healthy Streams programmes.
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Wakapuaka Bursting with Life
The Nelson North community is partnering with Council and the NZ Landcare Trust, in a project that aims to restore the health of the Wakapuaka River and strengthen community connections in the area.
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Erosion and Sediment Control
Activities that disturb the land must be adequately controlled to avoid sediment ending up in infrastructure and waterways.
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How to wash your paint brushes safely
Council has produced a brochure explaining how to wash your paintbrushes without polluting our rivers and streams.
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Project Maitai / Mahitahi
Project Maitai is a 4-year project, working in partnership with Iwi, the community and key agencies in the region, to improve the water quality of the Maitai / Mahitahi River.