A voice for Porirua Harbour and its catchments
Join Harbour Accord partners in a mid-week clean up of the cbd foreshore on Wednesday 29 April from Noon until 3pm. Kai provided. Wear suitable clothing for the task and sturdy footware/boots/gumboots.
We know from experience that no matter how many clean ups are done there’s always litter to be removed. This is a great opportunity to do your bit with just a few hours of time commitment.
A good opportunity for Porirua people interested in how other Wellington groups go about catchment rehabilitation to go on a guided walk with the Trelissick Park Group. Wear sturdy footwear for wet tracks. Sunday 26 April at 2pm – 3.30pm
Meet in the Ngaio Gorge at Trelissick Park Entrance 5 (see map) Parking: Parking laybys at Entrances 5 and 6. If parking at Entrance 6, walk up Ngaio Gorge Rd to Entrance 5.
In case of rain check https://www.facebook.com/TrelissickParkGroup after 10am
Postponement day: Monday 27 April (ANZAC Day Holiday).
The Trust salutes Jono Ridler for his epic record breaking 1337km swim of the entire East Coast of the North Island and into Wellington, drawing attention to the dangers to the ocean of bottom trawling. Our shallow water west-coast harbour in Porirua is safe from commercial trawling and has legal protection against nets although individuals from time to time are either unaware of the rules or are determined to ignore them.
Tiaki Wai is the new organisation that will deliver drinking water, wastewater and stormwater services across Lower Hutt, Porirua, Upper Hutt and Wellington from 1 July 2026.
Tiaki Wai is currently seeking feedback on the draft Water Services Strategy, Customer Charter and Significance and Engagement Policy. Together, these documents provide information about what Tiaki Wai intends to do, how water services will be paid for, what they you can expect from your new water services provider, and how you can expect to be engaged with.
You have until 22 April 2026 to let Tiaki Wai know what you think. Find out more and have your say at Have Your Say Tiaki Wai (https://haveyoursay.tiakiwai.co.nz/).
Another huge haul-out of pollutants in and around the Porirua Stream. Thanks to Keep New Zealand Beautiful and the Petone Beach Cleanup Crew plus many local volunteers who turned up in drizzly conditions. Plastic bottles and takeaway wrappers is one thing but tyres, cones, builders waste and those damn trolleys is another… Help protect our awa with better behaviour please citizens of Porirua and northern Wellington…
On one of Porirua’s “sorry for yesterday’s southerly” days, the Pāpakowhai lagoons were showing off the benefits of the planting programmes while in the reserve “freshwater” pond the duckweed bloom from nutrient enriched stormwater runoff didn’t seem to upset the resident eels playful behaviour!.
The Harbour Trust and the Guardians of the Inlet have made joint submissions on the Planning Bill and the Natural Environment Bill.
We support well planned growth and development compatible with environmental limits and ecological capacity. These Bills, as currently written, will not deliver that.
Our concerns are that the Bills lack clear, enforceable and precautionary environmental limits. Furthermore, it is very unclear how the two pieces of legislation would work together along with other changes that the Government has made or is making with fast track legislation, regional government reform and lodcal body rates capping.
Read the detail in our submissions.
The Trust and GOPI made joint submissions to the Environment Select Committee in February 2026 on the above Bills. These two Bills will replace the Resource Management Act 1991. Our organisations are very concerned that unless the Bills are changed to include clear, enforceable and precautionary environmental limits that growth of the built environment will take place without sufficient checks and balances and that environments such as Te Awarua o Porirua will continue to degrade.
SORRY TO ADVISE THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED BY THE HARBOUR ACCORD PARTNERS. A RESCHEDULE DATE WILL BE POSTED WHEN AVAILABLE
Join us as we come together to care for Te Awarua-o-Porirua Harbour and restore its mauri through collective action.
Thursday 26 February 2026
9:00am – 1:00pm
Porirua Harbour & adjoining coastal areas
Meet at Harbourside near Kai Tahi, Porirua
Led by Te Rūnanga o Toa Rangatira and the Harbour Accord
Don’t forget to wear kākahu you’re happy to get dirty – it’s all part of the mahi 
This kaupapa brings together iwi, whānau, schools, community, and corporate partners to:
Clean up our harbour and foreshore
Grow kaitiakitanga and awareness of marine pollution
Strengthen partnerships across our rohe
Finish with shared kai and kōrero
Nau mai, haere mai – bring your friends, your whānau, and your aroha for our Te Awarua o Parirua.
Let’s honour the Harbour Accord and look after our harbour, together. 
A Regional Council team conducting the annual monitoring of sediment plates in the Inlet came across a total of 23 dead rig with slit gills and a stingray with its barb removed. Reports were made to MPI poaching and fisheries teams. While there was no evidence of who was responsible* or how the sharks and stingray were caught, everyone needs to know set netting is banned in the inlet and around the coast. The Porirua Harbour is a precious breeding ground and nursery for rig shark and therefore plays a very important role in sustaining the population of the species. Adult rig, or lemon fish, are a significant source of fish used in “fish and chips”. Further information on rig can be found on the Guardians website page https://gopi.org.nz/rig-shark/
Update: In response to community observation and reporting local police spoke to individuals who acknowledged they were wrong to kill the rig sharks and “the matter is resolved”