IA offers further $11.6 million to Create Healthy Harbour
Statement made by John Robertson, Chairman, Infrastructure Auckland
Infrastructure Auckland (IA) today announced it is offering a further $11.6 million in stormwater grants across the
region. Improvements to Auckland’s stormwater system are essential if we are to avoid a “dying lakes” scenario right
here in Auckland.
Contaminants, ranging from car exhaust and brake pad particles to silt, fertilisers and litter are being washed into
Auckland’s streams, estuaries and harbours with every passing shower. In some of Auckland’s estuaries, levels of
contaminants have reached internationally recognised limits for the protection of aquatic life. In others these levels
have been exceeded.
Today’s grants are being offered to Waitakere City Council ($7.3 million), Papakura District Council ($2.9 million),
Franklin District Council ($1.3 million) and North Shore City Council ($93K). Kaipatiki Stream Ecological Restoration
Trust is to be offered a grant of $60,000 and last month the West End Rowing Club was offered a grant of $22,000.
The projects include a range of initiatives from constructing stormwater ponds in Papakura and riparian planting that
will naturally filter stormwater, to the installation of raintanks in Glenfield that will divert and store stormwater
onto grass, gardens or into the waste water network.
IA has to date approved grants totaling $39 million to 64 stormwater projects across the region. It has a notional
allocation for stormwater projects of $150 million.