Kāwhia Catchment Management Plan

Report: TR 2025/02

Authors: Waikato Regional Council

The development of a catchment management plan provides the opportunity for communities to identify what they want their natural environment to look and feel like in the next 10 to 50 years.

The west coast harbour catchment management plans (HCMPs) recognise the physical, biological and cultural inter-connectedness of harbours with their catchments and communities. They ensure that individual resource management issues such as water quality, soil conservation, erosion and sediment control, sites of significance, flooding and biodiversity are not managed in isolation, but as part of an integrated plan that also considers the cultural, social and economic impacts of activities in the catchment.

The Kāwhia Harbour Catchment Management Plan is an important operational document for Waikato Regional Council (the council) that will guide the implementation of integrated catchment management activities within the Kāwhia Harbour catchment in collaboration with iwi, landowners and communities.