Papatoetoe Stream Project

Papatoetoe Stream Project

From: waiphsproject, 20 minutes ago





Papatoetoe High School Stream Project

Cleaning up the stream

The students have been busy cleaning up the stream and the environment around it, most of the rubbish collected has been loaded into a skip to be taken away to the rubbish dump where is belongs, check out the hard work below.

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PHS has restarted work on the banks of its boundary stream

In 2005 Manukau Water removed low branches from trees there, and other debris that could cause localised flooding. A number of people took the opportunity to express their views to the Habitat contract team. All were in favour of the area being upgraded further by replacing the willows with lower growing native plants.

Wai Care Programme coordinators and teachers have raised funds for:

• removal of the tall deciduous trees, except for protected pin oaks and a few others.
• removal of exotic evergreen trees, but not the native trees.
• planting sedges, cabbage trees, flax, and some more native trees.
• removal of litter.

The work began in August this year, and will continue over the following years, depending on successful funding applications.

Streambank neighbours could benefit -

• attractive outlook
• fewer rats
• more birds
• cleaner stream water
• firewood available
• an interesting place to walk

The process of restoring the stream is to be an educational opportunity for PHS school classes across all learning areas.

The Project workers would like your feedback:

• Could you share with students your knowledge of the stream in the past?
• Are you aware of present problems - rats, other pests, litter?
• If you see the stream change colour, if you see any oil on the surface or the water foaming, report immediately to the Pollution Hotline, 377 3107.
• Have you any suggestions email waiphsproject@gmail.com

Papatoetoe High School in 1959

It has been over 50 years since Papatoetoe High School was built on farm land in Papatoetoe, Papatoetoe was its own town in those days with its own town hall. Now it makes up part of the greater city, Auckland.

Here is an image of what Papatoetoe High School looked like in 1959 and how the stream that we now are busy cleaning up and replanting to provide a healthy environment for the aquatic life and bird life in the area used to look.

The Start

In association with Wai-Care and Papatoetoe High School, the Papatoetoe Stream Project is looking at the health and bio-diverity of the stream (unofficial name Papatoetoe Stream) at the back of Papatoetoe High School.
Below is an aerial photograph showing part of the stream's location.


This image was obtained using Google Earth

This image was obtained from waicare.org.nz

The site is located at
Papatoetoe High, Manukau City
Catchment: Tamaki River-Otara Creek
Longitude: 1766869.167
Latitude: 5905870.225
Information obtained from waicare project database located here

Photos from the Stream

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Papatoetoe Stream Path

Papatoetoe Stream (projected path)

GIS Year 2000 Image

This is an image of the area from the year 2000, click on the image for a bigger size

Images from 2003

Below are some images from 2003 and how the stream and the area looked while the Mountain Bike Track was being built.