Clean Streams is an Environment Waikato project to encourage and support farmer efforts to reduce the impacts of farming on waterways. Advice and financial support of up to 35 percent of farmers’ costs for fencing and planting waterway margins is available.
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You can view or print more information about the fund, including an application form, and the Clean Streams booklet from this page (PDF file format).
Clean Streams – fund facts
The project runs for 10 years and commits up to $10 million from the earnings on our investment fund to provide advice and financial support of up to 35 percent for farmers who want to exclude stock from water margins by fencing them out.
Fund facts
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Clean Streams – guideline booklet
The guideline booklet 'Clean Streams' explains how farming can affect waterways. It offers practical suggestions about what farmers can do, and what works best where on a farm, together with illustrations and photographs of Waikato examples.
Clean Streams - guideline booklet
(991 kb, 141 seconds to download, 56k modem)
The Farm Environment Awards Trust factsheet 'Managing Waterways on Farms' gives examples of farmers who have taken action, and shows the benefits they have found as a result.
Work out the cost of managing waterways on your farm
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Managing waterways on farms
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Livestock exclusion areas
The livestock exclusion rule in the Waikato Regional Plan, which came into effect in April 2006, means stock must be kept out of specified waterways in the region, including:
- any stream flowing into Lake Taupo
- streams flowing into a harbour or estuary and within two kilometres of the coastal marine area
- margins of significant wetlands in the region and most Waikato lakes
- some specified streams on the Coromandel Peninsula and other specified streams throughout the region.
If you are farming in a livestock exclusion area you are guaranteed Clean Streams funding. This means Environment Waikato will pay up to 35 per cent of the costs of fencing and planting the natural waterways on your property. However, this offer closes at the end of June 2008 - so get in now.
A full list of stock-excluded waterways is available in the Regional Plan. You can also ask your local Environment Waikato land management officer for more information - call them on our freephone 0800 800 401.
Apply for Clean Streams assistance
To apply for Clean Streams assistance, print out this application form and send it to Environment Waikato.
Clean Streams application form
(197 kb, 28 seconds to download, 56k modem)
Environment Waikato staff can help with the preparation of your proposal, call our freephone 0800 800 401.
More information
You can also check out our river management guidelines, and find out more about river and catchment management in the Waikato region.
Check out the Ministry for the Environment's culvert and bridge design guidelines.