Table: Taieri Catchment: Site Name: Island Stream - Maheno

Catchment condition

1

Runanga comments, when they visited the site, were as follows:

Safety drinking the water

• No way!!

Fishing at the site

• No.

Eating the fish

• Pollution evident.

Balance

• Beautiful rich farmland well watered at the river's expense. The farmland is healthy while the river suffers.
• Shitty land use, shitty river.

Overall health

• Polluted, smelly, area changed heaps.

Access at the site

• Site has been destroyed.
• Runoff from surrounding lands. This is a dairying area.

Harvesting mahinga kai from the site

• Polluted.

Final comments

• I said Yuck for an earlier river. God knows what I could say here.
• The worst water quality I have seen so far.

Riverbank condition

2.6

River shape

-

Riparian vegetation

2

Indigenous vegetation
(on adjacent land)

1

Mahinga kai birds

1.25

Riverbed condition

1

Use of the river
(modifications)

1.3

Use of the river
(takes / discharges)

1.25

Flow visible

1

Flow heard

1.25

Odours present / absent

1.25

Water quality

1

Water clarity

1

Sediment present / absent

1

Use of riparian areas

1

Safety tasting water

1

Suitability for fishing

1

Safety eating fish

1

Balance between land and water

1

Abundance of birds

1.5

Diversity of birds

1

Abundance of plants

1.5

Species that were harvested in the 19th century include:

• eels, kanakana, whitebait.

Species that were present when the site was surveyed were:

• wiwi, tussock
• ducks
• tuna (short finned) (15), tuna (long finned) (4), inanga (1).

Diversity of plants

1

Access to the site

2.75

Suitability for harvesting mahinga kai

1

Overall score

1

MCI score 78

SHMAK score 1