Hihi volunteer needed
Date posted: 18-Oct-2018
Would you like to volunteer with the Island's hihi team and learn from them how ..
2019 Calendars now available
Date posted: 05-Sep-2018
The new 2019 calendars are now available and this year's is better than ever! Th..
Winners of kokako photo competition
Date posted: 02-Sep-2018
The stunning winning photographs from those submitted to the competition as part..
Kokako Celebration
Date posted: 21-Jul-2018
(https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-great-kokako-story-celebrating-21-years-..
Kokako Photographic Competition
Date posted: 20-Jul-2018
KÅKAKO PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION
Celebrating 21 years on Tiritiri Matangi
To ce..
New monitoring reports published
Date posted: 19-Jul-2018
Reports on monitoring studies carried out over the past year have now been poste..
2018 Concert coming up soon
Date posted: 15-Feb-2018
Our 2018 concert will feature an afternoon of light classics and jazz courtesy of the Auckland Ph..
Wetapunga talk coming soon
Date posted: 05-Feb-2018
For the Social on 19 March the speaker will be Ben Goodwin of Auckland Zoo, who will talk about t..
Rat caught and now takahe released from pens
Date posted: 28-Jan-2018
Thankfully DOC staff Andre de Graaf and Polly Hall and their assistants have trapped the rat whic..
Your Christmas Shopping for a Song
Date posted: 04-Dec-2017
Aka - The Grand Christmas Shopping Expedition to Tiritiri Matangi Island Shop
Dreading..
New water supply on Tiri
Date posted: 15-May-2011Kiwi Well Drillers have spent a working week on the Island drilling a new well.
They have put a bore down to 85m just opposite the Implement Shed. All the sub-soils have been cased off and cemented to 27m which means no impurities can come from the surface. The bore went straight from topsoil to yellow clay then rotten rock and into the weathered greywacke. They struck water at 78m in a natural fracture/aquifer – right at sea level. The water looks clear and tastes good though it might have a slight amount of iron in it. A solar-powered pump will soon be installed and once it has run for 24 hours a sample will be taken for water quality analysis.
The bore is capable of supplying 5,000 litres/hr though has only been tested to 2,600 litres/hr. The pump will pull 400 litres/hr.
