Powell's Road Waterway Project

Check it out - Fonterra and the farmers want to work together!

Living Water Website

We have been asked to be part of the re-generation of the Powells Road waterway. Read all about it on this link and in this article. 

Powells Road link

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Newspaper Article

We would need five teams of data collectors who would work as a team to develop a proposal and presentation for the Council. They would then lead the rest of the class in our action during Term 4. You would need to be good team workers and be able to lead the rest of the class. You would need to prepare the presentation and so would focus on this during writing and inquiry for the remainder of the term.

Who is UP FOR THE CHALLENGE? (Not Kapa Haka people as it clashes)

Team 1: Digging the angles of the stream.
1. Rylan
2. Max W
3. Deklyn
4. Ryan  
5. Maddy 

Team 2: Checking on stream habitat.
1. Liam
2. Heidi 
3. Nate
4. Eliot 
5. Sam

Team 3: Planting around the banks of the stream.
1. Toby
2. Fletcher
3. Thomas
4. William
5. Thomas

Team 4: Stream invertebrates - what lives in there!
1. Frida
2. Rohan
3. Sammy
4. Ben 
5. Brody


Our Questions and thinkings......
Trial - will it work so other areas can use it.
Purpose - fix the habitat so our creatures will flourish - mahinga kai.
It was dug in the 1800 to drain the swamps but is now an important habitat.

Problem: 
no shade, weeds grow and sediment blocks the drain.
Contamination from the farm into the waterway and lake.

Our plan...... proposal for DOC
What are the causes and consequences in our area?
What action can we take and what will be the consequences?

Set up a scale model.... decide on the scale.

Each group plan the things that need to be done for them... on the small copy of the river.
Share with the team & overlay on our large copy.