Mangaone River Catchment Area
The Mangaone River Catchment Care group came together to build a community working group, initiating regular water testing to understand the state of our environment.
Mangaone River Catchment Group Vision:
Our vision is to ensure prosperous, proactive, proficient farming businesses, many of which are multigenerational while maintaining good relations with community stakeholders, school, regional council, and industry professionals.
Our group are passionate people providing for our future farmers with a view to maintaining potable drinking water (and swimmable) within the catchment and a plan to continue introducing of native birds/trees/plants.
We are part of the Massey University Catchment Solutions “Enhancing Rural Capability to Achieve Essential Freshwater Outcomes” project.
On-going projects
Catchment Solutions Project
This is a 3 year project involving catchment groups in the Hawkes Bay, Taranaki and the Manawatu River Catchment (Mangaone and Haynes Creek).
Mitigation demonstration projects will be built in all participating catchments with an in-depth analysis of each catchment.
Water has been collected from farm drains in the Mangaone River catchment and analysed by Massey. This initial monitoring is to investigate and understand the catchment issues, to identify the correct mitigation options with plans to implement, monitor and analyse a demonstration site.
