Farmers and council at odds over management of Tasman’s flood-hit Upper Motueka River

Farmers and council at odds over management of Tasman’s flood-hit Upper Motueka River

Reading Time: 4 minutes By Monique Steele of RNZ A group of Tasman farmers and the district council are working to find a balance between managing the mighty Motueka River with the environmental impacts of gravel extraction. The district’s farmers and growers were dealing with the trail of destruction left by the flooded upper Motueka and Wangapeka Rivers, following two serious flooding events within two weeks at the top of the South Island sinc…