The next WET Trustee meeting for 2011 will be held on Monday 18th July, 6.30pm, at Lincoln Events Centre, Lounge 3. A key agenda item will again be be the review of the Community Strategy and the development of an action plan to guide WET’s future activities. All welcome.
One of WET's priorities is education, in the widest sense, and we are happy to assist schools and other groups in planning and organising educational projects that involve the Lake and its catchment. In particular, with the expertise of our Restoration Consultant, we can help groups to organise and undertake riparian planting projects. We can also [...]
Another 20,000 pages of The Ellesmere Guardian went online on April 15th, covering the period 1906 to 1945. A celebration was held at Leeston Library in early May. This a real partnership project, with WET coordinating financial contributions from Lincoln University Library, Selwyn District Libraries, Christchurch City Libraries, Ellesmere Historical Society and from WET. The [...]
The first WET Trustee meeting for 2011 will be held on Monday 18th April, 6.30pm, at Lincoln Primary School library, 130 North Belt, Lincoln. A key agenda item will be the review of the Community Strategy and the development of an action plan to guide WET's future activities. All welcome.
WET is hosting an evening talk about the management of the Lake level. The speaker is David Aires from Environment Canterbury. WHEN: Wednesday April 6th, 2011 at 7pm WHERE: Leeston Community Room (Leeston Library) 19 Messines St, Leeston - look out for the WET flag at the entrance. There is no charge for this event [...]
WET's riparian restoration programme, undertaken over the last couple of planting seasons, has provided a lot of information and helped us to understand what works well in the catchment. We have now produced a new flyer summarising some of the key points to consider when undertaking riparian restoration and outlining the costs of each stage. [...]
WET is keen to keep in touch with schools and community groups interested in education activites around the Lake. From time to time a brief newsletter will be sent out so we can keep in touch with schools. Newletters can viewed here: Term 1, 2011 Term 3, 2011
As part of 'Celebrating Selwyn' 2011 WET will have a display and information at Leeston Library from March 25th to April 10th - come along and find more about what WET is doing. On April 6th, also at Leeston Library, WET is hosting an evening talk on Lake Level Management. The level of the Lake [...]
The hearing planned for late March 2011 on the application for a variation to the Water Conservation Order on Te Waihora/Lake Ellesmere has been postponed due to the recent earthquake. The applicants have requested a delay of 2 to 3 months and the new hearing dates are yet to be set.
Selwyn District Council have reported that Christchurch City Council are now able to start taking and treating sewage from Lincoln, Springston, Prebbleton and Tai Tapu once again. This means that discharge of raw sewage to the Halswell and LII rivers from these settlements has stopped, which is great news for the rivers and the Lake. [...]
Lake is currently:CLOSED to the sea Latest lake level reading:0.83m msl recorded on July 17, 2023 READ MORE >>
