Nguturoa Linton Catchment Area
The Nguturoa Linton Catchment is a small catchment south of Palmerston North in the heart of the Linton district. It reaches from the tributaries in the foothills of the Tararua Ranges and extends westwards on through rolling and flat country to become the Nguturoa Stream.
It has a great base of like-minded people with ongoing stream and bush planting supported by NIWA, Horizons, Iwi and KapAg, members nursey plants and a catchment trap library.
The catchment has undertaken extensive freshwater monitoring with exciting finds of kakahi, Koura and long and short fin eels.
Nguturoa Linton Catchment Group Vision:
The catchment has a vision to improve water quality, increase biodiversity and leave the catchment in a better place for their mokopuna.
Pest trapping will continue aiming for zero pests and target the removal of all pest weeds in the catchment.
- Oranga wai – Healthy water
- Oranga whenua – Healthy land
- Oranga tangata – Healthy people
- Oranga hapori – Healthy community
On-going projects
Joint AgResearch/DairyNZ Project
Nguturoa Catchment Group is involved in a research project exploring E. coli behaviour through the Nguturoa Catchment.
This five-year project will help understand sources and sinks of E. coli (bacteria). In doing so, it will deliver options for reducing E. coli losses from rural land to streams, and inform regulations with respect to what mitigation levels are achievable in pastoral-dominated catchments.
