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December 2020 The Greenie This magazine is produced by the Waiau Pa & Clarks Beach Business Association Inc. www.theGreenie.co.nz 1 & CLAR PA KS U B Waiau Pa & Clarks Beach Business Association A EA I C A H W The Greenie B . U C S N IN I Keeping our community informed E N SS IO ASSOCIAT Become a member for $50 and enjoy the benefits Free monthly listing Discounted advertising rate One-off business profile Permanent profile on the website To join the Business Association go to the website: www.theGreenie.co.nz and fill out the online member application form. Submit this and you will be contacted by a committee member. Deadline for the February 2021 issue by 20th January Contact: [email protected] Free notices for “non-profit” community groups Personalised adverts 50 cents a word, maximum 20 words 2020 Business Association Committee Chairman: Graham Guy 027 477 1176 Secretary: Michele Mathieson 027 486 3738 Treasurer: Felicity Reber 022 089 6057 Greenie: Megan Allan 027 279 1128 Jim Jackson 027 473 0226 Kylie Eltham 027 201 6383 Annette Lusk 021 138 8369 In this issue New member profile - OD Enterprises- p3 Fishing trips and excursions - p4 Manukau Harbour water issues - p5 Seagrove Airfield - p6 & 7 What’s next for investors? - p8 & 9 Clarks Beach Yacht Club report - p9 Ratepayers Assn AGM - p10 & 11 Tear Fund quiz night - p18 Kindergarten report - p19 Sitting on the Sofa - p20 Thanks as always to our regular contributors Upcoming Events WPCB Business Association Xmas - 4th December CBYC Xmas party - 12th December Christmas Carols at the Beach - 13th December Americas Cup World Series at the Yacht Club - 17-20th December Yacht Club Thrift Market - 24th January 2021 Ratepayers Assn meeting - 3rd February 2 New member profile : OD Enterprises . Oscar Dickens I have been a local here in Waiau Pa for the last 6 years and have been enjoying living in this great community. For over 15 years I have been working in the RV industry working on motorhomes and caravans & horse trucks, doing maintenance, installation of 12volt electrical systems as well as self-containment & plumbing require- ments. I have also been upgrading all areas of our life style block and making it into our own piece of paradise with my wife who is a nurse and two young boys. We have created a varied fruit orchard on our property, we also run a few cattle, a couple of pigs and plenty of chickens. I am now working from home and am able to provide services to our community for a wide range of requirements from RV work to lifestyle block. Lately I have found myself doing more and more work on lifestyle blocks so am ven- turing out in my business to support people who live on a lifestyle block but don’t have the time, expertise or experience needed for some projects and tasks. I have experience in paddock topping, fencing, water tank installation, gates, building decks and wooden fences and other general main- tenance tasks. If you have a job needing to be done, then I am happy to see if it is something I can help you with. Just call me on 021 918-231. SHOWHOME OPEN 21 JONAH LOMU DRIVE r Builders H r Builders H ste ou ste ou a se a se M o M o d f d f e t e t r h r h e e e e t t s Y s Y i i e e g g a a e e r r R R • • • • Auckland Auckland 3 Harbour Watch : Manukau Harbour - by Robyn Pearce Fishing trips and excursions There’s a lot of positive action in the communi- responses show there is widespread enthusi- ties around our beautiful harbour. Grab yourself asm for getting water transport back on the a copy of the November issue of Boating NZ to harbour, and other waterside communities are see an outstanding article, ‘Trapped by the Tide’. watching with keen interest. It profiles the Manukau Harbour, the Ratahi An outstanding video to watch and the dream of her present owner, Trevor To see what our harbour is really like, check Pennington, to provide a charter boat service out https://youtu.be/bPJI22CDDVU or www. that showcases the harbour. They’re now taking facebook.com/ratahicruises. school parties and fishing excursions as often Navigation markers as the tide allows, but far more locals and A number of boaties have had uncomfortably visitors will enjoy the water once the harbour close encounters with dangerous basalt rocks has a safe all-weather 24-hour jetty. invisible at high tide. These include the black Clarks Beach pontoon/wharf/jetty (it’s a rock at Waiau Beach and others up the Taihiki pontoon, really) River. Harbour authorities have ignored these As the Boating NZ article says, water-based dangers, so public-minded residents have done activities on the Manukau are severely limited something about it. Thanks to Jim Jackson for by the lack of 24-hour deep water docking fa- his work-in-progress on putting markers on cilities. To start the swing back to water-based these danger spots, plus lights on the end of transport and use by the wider community the Boat Club pontoon, Wharf Road. rather than just the lucky people who can afford An interesting side note: The Kaipara, New pleasure craft, the Clarks Beach Public Wharf Zealand’s largest harbour, will receive $100m Society has been working hard this year to get over a 10-year period to address a range of a safe docking facility. The application to Council environmental issues, especially sedimentation. is underway and they’ve received letters of The Manukau, the country’s second-largest support from iwi, local businesses, politicians harbour, with equal or worse sedimentation and sports groups. The community has also and a far greater population base to exacer- spoken. The vast majority of those who complet- bate problems, is so far being ignored. We’re ed two surveys earlier this year are in favour; keenly awaiting action. ALL AUTOMOTIVE REPAIRS • Wof - Safety Inspections - Cars, Bikes, Trailers • Electronic Diagnosis • Scheduled Servicing • Brake And Clutch Servicing • Pick Up And Delivery • Auto Transmission Servicing • Emissions Testing - Vehicle Health Checks • Air Conditioning Repairs • Tyre Sales - Wheel Alignment - Suspension • Exhaust Repairs PH: 09 232 1747 or 0274 389 353 [email protected] - www.wpas.co.nz 4 Manukau Harbour Water Issues - By John Duncan The resource consent for the new outfall land-derived inputs to the harbor, which will from the Watercare wastewater treat- refine the inputs for the hydrodynamic model ment plant, which was issued finally in further, but this may be another two years 2018, requires that Watercare establishes a Community Liaison Group to provide away. opportunity for community engagement • Conditions of the resource consent with the project. include installation of a rain gauge at Clarks Beach, which the meeting urged Watercare The first meeting of the group was held on representatives to do sooner rather than lat- November 17th. er, and enhanced water quality testing up- and Key issues that emerged from the meeting down-stream of the outfall. The meeting urged were: Watercare, despite their reservations that • The expectation is that the outfall in the the system is more difficult to make effective Waiuku Channel, offshore from Clarks Beach in salt water, to use monitoring buoys such Golf Club, will still be used, and the condi- as is already installed in the Tamaki River to tions upon which consent was granted will achieve this task, because they deliver contin- be met. But the architecture of the system uous real-time information. (originally planned to pipe wastewater from It was a pleasure to see the openness of Dr Clarks Beach and Kingseat to Waiuku for Nathaniel Wilson, Watercare Environmental treatment, then piping of the treated water Care Manager, who convened the meeting and back to the outfall) might not proceed as was prepared to address every question that had been assumed earlier. The whole project was put to him. Meetings of this Liaison Group is delayed at present due to uncertainty of are expected to take place every six months, funding; but inevitably enhanced treatment and we will try to attend and keep the com- capacity will be needed because the present munity informed of the outcomes. Matters facilities will become overloaded. The re- that should be progressed before the next source consent lapses in 2026, so there will meeting include the timetable for planning/ definitely be a new system in place by then. construction of the new system, and the plans • Watercare commissioned a hydrodynam- for ‘baseline monitoring’ which the Environ- ic model of the harbor from NIWA in 2016, ment Court requires to commence at least with expected delivery in 2019. It still has not two years before the outfall is brought into been delivered. Most of the model (the parts operation. that address nutrients, salinity etc.) appears to work, but not the part which predicts where algal blooms are expected to arise, and this is throwing doubt on the whole model’s accuracy. Watercare hope to take possession of the still-incomplete model be- fore Christmas 2020, with NIWA expected to still get it refined so that it works fully. This should allow modeling of the gross effects of changing how emissions to the harbour will affect conditions. It is planned to be inte- grated with a further model being developed by Auckland Council Healthy Waters for the 5 Seagrove Airfield - Franklin’s WW2 secret air force base Almost eighty years ago, during WW2 airspace ways with sealed metal surfaces.