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The Silt Recovery Taskforce has moved close to 900,000 cubic metres of silt around Hawke’s Bay, completing over half of the 977 logged jobs in the process. Silt Recovery Taskforce Lead Darren de Klerk says unless more money comes in by the end of October, ...

The milestone has drawn a mixed response by affected property owners heading into buyouts.

The buyout of nearly 300 cyclone-wrecked Hawke's Bay homes that are too unsafe to live in will kick off by the end of this month.

The Hawke's Bay Regional Council says a $10 million boost to help clean up silt is still nowhere near enough.

Central Government has provided the Silt Recovery Taskforce an additional $10 million of funding which will allow sediment and debris collection and management to continue into October. Hawke’s Bay Regional Council Chair Hinewai Ormsby says that while ...

The Hawke’s Bay Regional Council says that Government has made $12 million of funding available for the Silt Recovery Taskforce, however clean-up work will continue to slow down and stop at the end of this month. Today, the Prime Minister Chris Hipkins ...

Hawke’s Bay Regional Council has supported the planting of over 268,000 trees, shrubs, flaxes and grasses this financial year. Around 85 percent of the plants are natives, planted for riverbank protection on the Heretaunga Plains and in Central ...

The Silt Recovery Taskforce has been working hard to clean up Hawke’s Bay, with contractor productivity making great headway in the Cyclone Gabrielle clean-up. Taskforce contractors have been asked to slow work down while further funding is confirmed. ...

Consent has been granted for a Managed Aquifer Recharge (MAR) pilot in Central Hawke’s Bay, which will see mana whenua, landowners and Hawke’s Bay Regional Council working together to build resilience to the impacts of climate change. Funded by both the ...

Draft review report is due by the end of the year.