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About the Coromandel/Manaia harbour and catchment area

The harbour and catchment plan for Coromandel/Manaia will cover from Long Bay Motor Camp, in the north, to just past Waitotara Stream at the seaward edge of Manaia. 

Collectively, Coromandel and Manaia harbours cover some 2367 hectares, have about 55 kilometres of harbour margins and 73 kilometres of coastline.

The land area covers 14,000 hectares and includes 62 kilometres of main streams.  It can be split into six sub-catchments:

  • Driving Creek
  • Whangarahi/Karaka/Pitoti
  • Te Kouma/Awakanae
  • Waiau
  • Manaia
  • Waitotara.

 Of the land area:

  • 67 per cent is in indigenous vegetation
  • 15 per cent is in pasture
  • 15 per cent is in plantation forest
  • 61 per is moderately steep to very steep (between 21 to >35 degrees)
  • 17 per cent is in beef and sheep farming (no dairy farms identified).

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Manaia River Restoration

The Manaia River Restoration Plan was developed as a stage of the Coromandel/Manaia Harbour and Catchment Plan.

The restoration of the Manaia River by the community was granted $855,592 in funding by Te Uru Rākau’s One Billion Trees Fund as part of the Government’s Shovel Ready programme to create jobs and be of regional benefit.