Just a 5 drive from Cashmere Estate is Te Kuru, the new Hoon Hay stormwater basin walking tracks with 4km of new tracks to enjoy now open to the public.
People will be able to enjoy four kilometres of new walking track when Christchurch City Council’s award winning stormwater basin in Hoon Hay opens to the public on Friday.
The stormwater basin is part of a 109-hectare network of basins and wetlands which the Council has been working on in the upper catchment of the Ōpāwaho Heathcote River. The facility as a whole has been named Te Kuru and includes the Eastman Wetlands.
The Council is investing more than $50 million in the project and last month picked up a national award for it.
Council Head of Three Waters Helen Beaumont says this section of the project is now complete and ready for the public to use. It has four kilometres of walking track and large areas of wetland and native planting for people to enjoy.
It will eventually link to three other stormwater storage and filtration basins that will collectively be able to store more than one million cubic metres of flood water in big rain events, reducing the risk of flooding downstream.
In total, the area will provide around 14 kilometres of walking tracks, cycle tracks and bridges as well as large swathes of native plantings. About 110,000 trees and 600,000 native plants are going in the ground as part of the revegetation effort.
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