Page 3 - Brian Halstead News Today

Braden Fastier/Stuff Grape grower Brian Halstead says members of the Waimea Irrigators and Water Users incorporated society believe the council should not “continue to drag its feet” over the issue of nitrates in the groundwater. Tests of some bores in 2019, arranged by Waimea Plains landowner Cathy Hughson and fellow Tasman District resident Lew Solomon, also showed some nitrate levels exceeded the drinking water standards. The Richmond urban water supply is drawn from aquifers under the...

Dougherty said any decision about increasing NCCs contribution would be for the full council to make. “Nelson City Council and Tasman District Council are currently finalising the agreement to pay the originally requested contribution of $5m,” Dougherty said. “This is still on track to be agreed in the first quarter of this year. However, the agreement will require the approval of a full council meeting.” Under construction in the Lee Valley, about 36km southeast of Nelson, the dam ...

Virginia Woolf/Stuff The level of nitrate in the waters under parts of the Waimea Plains has long been of concern. Agricultural and livestock land uses are the primary sources of nitrate contamination in the waters on and under the Waimea Plains, a new report has found. A summary of existing science from catchment management consultant Andrew Fenemor for the Tasman District Council said monthly groundwater data suggested that historic contamination from a piggery that closed in the 1980s has �...