Post by Kiwi Frontline on Feb 14, 2017 17:09:02 GMT 12
HAPŪ LEADER CALLS FOR INPUT ON NEW POROTĪ LAKE
The public must have a say in the future of a farmer's illegal dam and lake near Porotī Springs, say the Māori leaders who own the springs.
Northland Regional Council fined the farmer $500 and told him to apply for resource consent after he dammed a stream on his property near the springs, creating a half-hectare lake.
"For anyone to be able to take water just like that, to impound it - it's not just a dam it's an impoundment of eleven-and-a-half million litres of water - you just can't be allowed to do that."
The farmer was not taking water from it and said it was a conservation project aiming to enhance local wetlands.....
www.radionz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/324361/hapu-leader-calls-for-input-on-new-poroti-lake
The public must have a say in the future of a farmer's illegal dam and lake near Porotī Springs, say the Māori leaders who own the springs.
Northland Regional Council fined the farmer $500 and told him to apply for resource consent after he dammed a stream on his property near the springs, creating a half-hectare lake.
"For anyone to be able to take water just like that, to impound it - it's not just a dam it's an impoundment of eleven-and-a-half million litres of water - you just can't be allowed to do that."
The farmer was not taking water from it and said it was a conservation project aiming to enhance local wetlands.....
www.radionz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/324361/hapu-leader-calls-for-input-on-new-poroti-lake