Te Auaunga Awa Te Auaunga Awa is one of Auckland’s longest uninterrupted watercourse at approximately 14km in length, running from the catchments around Keith Hay Park and Puketapapa (Mt Roskill) to the outlet near Pollen Island in the upper Waitemata Harbour. The stream has strong cultural, community, landscape, and amenity values and a wide range of groups regularly utilise the reserves along the stream, including local schools. The name chosen for the project is Te Auaunga Awa, which translates as ‘swirling waters’. The name relates to the stream and wetland that once extended across the area. Te Auaunga Awa, Walmsley and Underwood Reserves (TAAWUR) project is intended to remedy significant flooding issues in three Local Board areas, while establishing a regionally significant river park along Te Auaunga Awa (Oakley Creek). The project will be a flagship for Auckland Council, to deliver a vision of a water-sensitive city.
Wai o Rakataura Te Auaunga Awa would have originally meandered through a large expanse of wetland known as Wai O Rakataura. This wetland was formed by the confluence of lava flows from Puketapapa (Mt Roskill) and Owairaka (Mt Albert), resulting in the damming of the watercourse and the formation of large peat swamps and open water lakes. Many Mana Whenua whakapapa to the ancestor Rakataura in this place. The wetland in this area was called Wai-o-Rakataura. Wai-o-Rakataura is the central theme that guides many of the sub-themes of the project. Iwi are committed to developing a strong design that represents their heritage and cultural narratives through Te Aranga Design Principles. Groups that are contributing to the project include: Te Kawerau a Maki, Ngāi Tai Ki Tāmaki, Ngāti Tamaoho, Te Akitai, Waiohua, Ngati Te Ata, and Ngāti Whātua Ōrakei.
TAAWUR is a partnership between the many stakeholders, including multiple units in Auckland Council, Watercare and Auckland Transport, Housing New Zealand Corporation (HNZC), Mana Whenua, Community Groups, Schools, Artists, and the Puketapapa, Albert-Eden, and Whau Local Boards. The Design Team is AECOM New Zealand Limited (AECOM) and Boffa Miskell Limited (BML).
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The natural environment is protected, restored, and/or enhanced
Environmental Health is protected, restored and/or enhanced
Under the guidance of Mana Whenua, the community and Local Boards, the project will:
The rehabilitation of Te Auaunga Awa includes weed control and enhancement planting. Over three and a half hectares of native planting is proposed, along with community orchards, and over a 1000 specimen trees to provide for stream shading.
1. Rehabilitate the concrete channel to have naturalised and planted stream edges and banks, including a meandering stream across the floodplain, and diverse aquatic ecosystems through the formation of pools, riffles, and runs. 2. The existing wetland will be restored to the extent practical through the integration of daylighted streams and wetlands. Restoration will relocate fish species and affected native tree species. In particular, young kahikatea and pohutukawa will be relocated on site. The project will also retain mature trees to the extent practical to assist with immediate stream shading and amenity, in line with the wishes of the community. Extracted basalt to form the stream channel, will be re-used in streamworks, play items, and artwork.
Planting will be in representative native vegetation, including kanuka and podocarp forest, kahikatea swamp forest, and basalt broadleaf forest. Iwi representatives along with Auckland Council biodiversity, and Friends of Oakley Creek, are seeking to ensure shrubs and specimen trees will shade the stream corridor, while still considering crime prevention principles to allow open views through the park. Plants will be propagated, installed, and maintained by Te Whangai Community Trust, working with the community and local schools.
Mana Whenua’s have re-focused the project on water quality outcomes, which includes two raingardens and four wetland-swales to treat urban stormwater. Floodplain wetlands will also treat rainfall events in the channel itself.
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Nature’s Playground
Aro-Takaro
Te Auaunga Awa, Oakley Creek connects the Waitemata Harbour to the Maunga of Owairaka and Puketapapa along a continuous corridor of protected open space. Within this network of Reserves, the development of Underwood and Walmsley Parks will provide a significant amenity to the local community. A wide range of play experiences have been provided, targeted at many age groups.
In Maori society, traditional games and aro-takaro were melded into every facet of ancient Maori society - as game playing, and for learning and fitness. They reinforced social norms and connected users to their environments. Every game was imbued with mauri - a spiritual aspect of life.
Project team representatives met with local schools where students were invited to think about ‘nature’ and the ‘outdoors’ and how they like to play in these environments. The children’s responses to nature included the joy of climbing trees, stepping on stones in the river, adventuring, exploring, and building huts, which is encouraging for an urban population of children. There were also many sensitive responses to the health of Te Auaunga Awa, including concern about pollution and the desire to clean up the river and create homes for tuna (eels) and birds.
Their utilisation today can have a significant and profound impact on the psyche of Maori. Tapsell (1997) contends that,
“The performance … effectively collapses time and reanimates the kin group’s ancestral landscap e, allowing descendants to re-live the events of past generations”. Traditional Maori play elements proposed for this project include ki-o-rahi, tama-taiki, houpara, and wera te patu, amongst others.
PLAY