From Sunday 1 December sections of the Kaituna and Tarawera rivers will have a new 5-knot speed limit in place. 

The Waihī Estuary has long been under threat, due to decades of draining wetlands, changing rivers and land use, as well as contaminated run-off. 

With the trout fishing season opening on Tuesday (1 October), those coming to the Rotorua Te Arawa lakes are being urged to be vigilant in stopping the spread of freshwater pests.

On 18 February 2020, Bay of Plenty Regional Council’s Strategy and Policy Committee decided to withdraw Plan Change 9.

Plan Change 10 introduced rules to limit the amount of nitrogen entering Lake Rotorua from land use, in order to improve water quality.

Safer speed limits in recreational areas, the future of current ski zones and a buoyed swim lane in Pilot Bay were shot topics as part of the Regional Council’s Navigation Safety Bylaws review.

With the longer days signalling the start of DIY season, Toi Moana Bay of Plenty Regional Council is reminding landowners living in a rivers and / or drainage scheme to check if they need a Bylaw Authority before doing any digging, planting or building.

The Rotorua Airshed boundary will be extended from Friday 3 June 2022 to include future residential housing developments in areas next to the existing airshed.

With the change of season, Bay of Plenty Regional Council is again reminding rural landowners of the requirements to protect the region’s stopbanks from the effects of stock and overgrazing.

After four years of illegally discharging septic tank wastewater into a drain which feeds the Kaituna River, two landlords have been convicted with breaching the Resource Management Act and fined $6,000 and given 75 hours community service each.