Our waterways are critical environmental and community assets. They support diverse ecosystems of ecological significance and offer high aesthetic value to the communities they flow through. Just as importantly, they perform the vital function of safely capturing and conveying rainfall away from populated areas and out to the coast.
We provide the critical knowledge and expertise to maintain these waterways to efficiently convey floodwaters in a manner that supports and enhances instream and coastal ecological values.
Our services include
We provide critical expertise to maintain waterways for efficient water conveyance and protection, while supporting and enhancing instream and coastal ecological values.
Our team develops programming and automation solutions for a wide range of control systems, covering pump stations, treatment plants, control gates, and reticulation networks.
Our waterways work is complimented by expertise in water clarity monitoring, over-pumping, and sediment management to ensure that all work is completed with ecosystem health as a core priority for every project.
We are skilled at managing works at the interface between land and sea. From rock armouring to sand management and dune planting, our integrated approach provides enduring and positive ecological outcomes.
Kūmānu offers ecology-led river management services, performing gravel extraction primarily for flood risk mitigation and maintaining natural river systems. Our expertise balances gravel removal with resource consent requirements with river health as our central driver.
We provide our clients with ecology-led stormwater management and flood resilience infrastructure. Our services include building and renewing stormwater systems, such as flood walls, stopbanks, and detention dams, while optimising natural waterways. We integrate environmental solutions to safely move floodwaters, mitigating damage and protecting communities.
Our team is also on standby to respond during flood events and civil defence emergencies. Flooding cannot always be prevented, and when the worst occurs, our teams are deployed with expert knowledge to keep floodwaters flowing, with protection of life and property as a guiding principle. After the worst has passed, our teams are skilled at helping with the recovery phase after significant flood events. Our approach combines our arborists, civil works, ecologists, and horticulturalists to deliver end-to-end support and recovery services.
