Regional Council scientists estimate that the current amount of nutrients and bacteria entering the estuary will need to reduce by 30–60 percent if we are to stop this decline in estuary health.
It will take investment, co-operation and compromise from all sectors of the community to achieve that reduction target, and to restore estuary health so it can once again sustain people and wildlife as it has for generations past.
Regional Council is working collaboratively with tangata whenua, industry groups and other relevant stakeholders in the catchment to deliver environmental programmes that are focused on improving the quality of the water that is entering the estuary.