The Waikato Catchment Ecological Enhancement Trust 2010 funding round for ecological enhancement projects in the Waikato Catchment, was opened on the 14th October by Trust Chair Gwyneth Verkerk.
Applications closed on the 31st January 2010, applicants will be notified of the outcome of their applications prior to March 31st 2010.

On the 14th October at an afternoon function held in Hamilton, the Trust celebrated 5 years of funding projects in the Waikato Catchment. 
Guests from throughout the Catchment including local Iwi, Local and Regional Councils, conservation and wetland enthusiasts, representatives from the organisations who have received funding and founding organisations were welcomed by Tainui’s Gannin Ormsbyand Trust [...]

Fish and Game are currently overseeing an ambitious project to construct a new 24 ha wetland at Ohaaki on the Waikato River. It has been predicted by the year 2030, subsidence, as a result of geothermal abstraction by the Ohaaki Power Station, will be sufficient for the entire site to be covered by water from [...]

In 2008 WCEET confirmed part funding of NIWA’s fish passage project to install spoiler baffles in a 68 m long culvert under River Road, Hamilton to facilitate the passage of fish into Bankwood Stream. This supplements previous work where a fish ramp was installed for the overhanging culvert. The project is now complete and is [...]