Drier weather tidy up plus Health and Safety.

As the land dries out we have been able to clean up the ruts made by the digger so that when the grass grows it will be smooth underfoot. We have used a couple of the piles of the felled taiwan cherry trees to mark the path edges and done quite a bit of spraying to get rid of the ginger other weeds.
The last job was to widen the car park by a few metres so that cars can turn round more easily.
When the stream dries out a bit more we can put in a couple of small dams to make shallow pools.
Its starting to look like a proper park.

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​As part of our consent procedure with FNDC, various groups attended a Health and Safety briefing at Kaikohe. As approved groups working on FNDC land we have the same responsibility to our volunteers as council employees and need to keep them safe from harm. We are a pretty risk averse group anyway but need to be disciplined over how we go about it.

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We have also taken advantage of the dry period to add a second dam to the stream but we now need some rain to fill it. 
The plan is to hold some water back to plant reeds and sedges and have a school use the area for educational purposes.

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