Opahu Stream Community Open Day

Get to know your local awa at this drop in day with Mountains to Sea Wellington’s Wai Connection team and the Anglican Parish of Lower Hutt.

Take part in water quality and species identification activities from Opahu Stream, celebrate over a year's worth of freshwater quality monitoring and learn about ways you can take part in conservation mahi going on in Lower Hutt.

We’ll be running water quality monitoring [https://niwa.co.nz/.../stream-health-monitoring-and...] and identifying fish and macro invertebrates living in the awa.

Our catchment co-ordinators will be onsite to chat about other ways you can get involved in conservation in your area too.

This event is for the whole whānau, drop in anytime between 10am-1pm. Water quality monitoring and fish identification will take place between 10-11am.

Wai Connection is a national programme delivered by Mountains to Sea Wellington aimed at connecting local communities to their waterways to improve them. We support communities and mana whenua with the knowledge, tools and expertise to monitor and care for their local freshwater places.

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