Who:
Environment Canterbury and Eos Ecology.
Date / Time:
Tuesday 2 – Wednesday 3 September 2025 / 9am–4pm
Location:
Timaru Golf Club, 87 Lynch Rd, Timaru
Agenda:
DAY 1 Morning – Technical training / Afternoon – Site visit / Morning tea & lunch provided
DAY 2 All day – Site visits / Snacks provided, bring your own portable lunch
Topics covered:
• How to identify opportunities for wetland restoration.
• Examples of the right & the wrong ways to restore & create wetlands.
• ‘The right wetland (type), in the right place, for the right reasons’.
• What wetland type will match the outcomes you’re hoping to achieve, e.g., sediment reduction vs nutrient reduction.
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Dr Rebecca Eivers from Wai Kōkopu Consulting will be sharing her wealth of knowledge about establishing wetlands with us.
Rebecca will share her experience creating small- and farm-scale constructed treatment wetlands
(CTWs), which includes dealing with:
• coarse sediment capture (sedimentation ponds)
• fine sediment and particulate nutrient filtration (filtration wetlands)
• nutrient uptake
• E. coli reduction
• re-wetting and restoring existing drained and degraded wetland restoring natural wetlands.
She’ll discuss water quality and water quantity treatment, and enhancing indigenous biodiversity within intensive farming and horticultural landscapes. This will include lessons learned, and advice on how best to avoid the problems and issues she’s encountered while working with wetlands. Rebecca aims to ensure attendees learn how to achieve ‘the right wetland (type), in the right place, for the right reasons’, and how to search for – and recognise – good opportunities for wetland re-wetting, re-creation, restoration, and construction in their focus areas/catchments
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