Current River Maintenance Planned Works

Tuesday 15 January 2013

Updated two-monthly, this page contains a list of current river works being carried out throughout the Tasman District. Please note that the list is indicative only as weather, personnel availability and unforeseen emergency events may affect proposed works at short notice. 

  • The table below shows works programmed under the 2012/13 Annual Operations Management Plan (AOMP).
  • Non-programmed work is ongoing.
  • The next round of Rivercare meetings will be held in mid March 2013 (see below).

RiverCare Onsite Meetings – March 2013

Council invites interested landowners to make an appointment to discuss specific river management issues or problem areas with Council’s Rivers team.

The  informal meetings will be held on site at the location(s) in question. Preferably appointments should be made between 11 and 22 March.

Please contact us via the details below to arrange a time and day:

Current River Maintenance Planned Works 

January/February 2013

RiverProgrammed Activities

All rivers

Release Riparian Native Plantings where present

All rivers

Fairway spraying of brush weeds

Tadmor

Complete winter 2012 flood damage repairs

Golden Bay rivers

Rock bank protection - extend, top up and create new

Golden Bay rivers

Willow layering

Tadmor

Riparian Native Plantings

Upper Motueka

Rock bank protection, willow layering

Aorere River Works

Rock bank protection work restarted in December 2012 at various sites in the lower reaches and will be ongoing through February 2013.

The Council is preparing to extract/relocate gravel at two sites in the Lower Aorere - the beach on the right bank where it has formed immediately above the Ferntown Bridge (Riddles Beach) and at the beach in the vicinity of the 4km mark, right bank. Access and gravel storage issues are being investigated with the work anticipated to begin in the period indicated above. 

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Further Information

  • Contact the Transportation Asset Engineer Giles Griffith, for more information. 
  • Phone 03 543-7244.