Christchurch stream to be revitalised with $1. 5m Government boost

The council has received $1. 5 million to help fund natural state work at Cashmere Stream. Photo as well as Supplied

A Christchurch stream which shortly teemed with freshwater fish and as a result was an important food gathering vicinity for Māori has received a finances boost.

The Government does offer given Christchurch City Council some sort of grant of almost $1. 5 people of through its freshwater improvement deposit to help restore Cashmere Stream.

Council city services all manager David Adamson said this particular stream is part of a until just last year significant wetland traditionally used by Māori as a food gathering area.

It is home to a total of threatened species, such as kōura (freshwater crayfish), kākahi (freshwater mussels), comparsa, inanga, pied stilts, oyster battres and southern grass skink.

Over the past few years, about 2200 native trees have been planted by the headwaters of the stream by the Cashmere Stream Care Group to help improve the resilience of the waterway.

Straight away the council has been given funding to enjoy a three-year project that will see it make use of community groups to restore the emotional and ecological health of a 1 . 8km stretch of the waterway out of Sutherlands Rd to Dunbars See free.

Adamson said gunk would be removed and the banks re-sculpted and planted with native fish to improve the ecology of the female. A 30m wide corridor to do with planting will be created to shade & protect the stream, enhancing its habitat for the freshwater fish.

The work is part of your $50 million investment by the council into stormwater treatment, wetland introduction and floodplain management infrastructure in excess of Cashmere Stream.

“The work we are intending to do likely will enhance the biodiversity values of the part and also contribute to the council’s carbon normal target, so we are delighted government entities has decided to use its salt water improvement fund to help finance this is what work, ” Adamson said.

The fund is an area of the Government’s $1. 245 billion Projects for Nature package, which is going to create significant environmental benefits but employ people to help accelerate the particular recovery from the impacts of Covid-19.

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It is expected the work on the stream will create roughly the same as 21 fulltime jobs over the lives of the project.

Surroundings Minister David Parker also televised $4. 15 million from the bear will go to the Styx Living You Trust to support its efforts to increase the ecology of the Styx catchment.

About $2. fifteen million from the fund will also spend Te Taumutu Rūnanga and the co-governors of Te Waihora/Lake Ellesmere to restore a whole catchment along Te Waikēkēwai/Waikēkēwai Stream, on the southwestern edge when using the lake. The five-year project will improve water quality, māhinga kai then biodiversity.