Wharf and Waterfront News
Coastal erosion experts visit Kororareka
Jim Dahm, a leading coastal erosion scientist, Rob Brown, a marine structural engineer, staff from Far North District Council and Far North Holdings and key leaders as well as Heritage NZ have been here looking carefully at the beach and foreshore erosion and assessing what is temporary erosion and if there is any new and permanent erosion with the purpose of coming up with recommendations the community can consider that will attempt to remediate the damage. They had a chance [...]
Coastal Process Assessment
Beach access was a high priority for the Placemaking projects, however FNDC advised that any work carried out on the beach and foreshore would be subject to Resource Consent from Northland Regional Council and comply with the District Plan Heritage Precinct zoning for this area. To move things forward, it was recommended by Far North Holdings, that a full Coastal Process Assessment be carried out, which would look at the tidal processes and weather for the past 50 years. The [...]
Russell boat ramp and carpark
Several years ago, the original Wharf Trust Trustees asked Far North Holdings to improve the boat ramp carpark, a dusty metal surface, full of potholes, with no allocated trailer parks. The ramp and carpark are owned by the Far North District Council, but managed by Far North Holdings Ltd, meaning the Council funds the repairs and maintenance from our rates. With so many visitors using the boat ramp being visitors, i.e. people not paying rates, FNHL applied for government funding [...]
Tim Grant Memorial Scholarship
Prior to his death, Tim had tabled an agenda item for the next meeting - that the Wharf Trust should sponsor a local student to go on a Youth Development Voyage on the R. Tucker Thompson. He wanted it to be an opportunity to give a young person who was already interested in sailing the chance to grow their experience, and potentially as he did, think about a career at sea. To honour his memory, this proposal was accepted [...]
High adventures on the high seas
High adventures on the high seas ** Unfortunately since writing this post, the pontoon started sinking - it was probably damaged on its adventure. We have secured a new pontoon, and Johnson Bros have again generously offered to transfer the fixtures across. However, they have a heavy workload, which involves their efforts tackling the exotic caulerpa outbreak, so they will do it when they have capacity.** On 17 September, the pontoon by the wharf decided it needed an adventure! [...]
New Wharf Trust Trustees
The Kororāreka Russell Community Kaitiaki Wharf Trust, or Wharf Trust for short has just completed a refresh and selected a new board of Trustees. The Trust was established in 2019 and the Trust Deed specified that the inaugural Trustees had to step down, and new Trustees appointed. Trustees could choose to reapply, but the places had to be advertised to the local community for them to get involved. There were a number of applications with a wide range of skills, [...]
