Students from local schools are participating in Albert-Eden Local Board’s Drains for Rain Programme.
Children from Marist Primary were first up, with Pasadena Intermediate and Point Chevalier Primary School taking part soon.
This programme supports increased community awareness around the Meola/Waitītiko awa and the restoration work to improve the awa, also supported by Albert-Eden Local Board. The target is to educate more than 900 pupils across the three schools with support from the Great Drain Game education trailer.
The school children enjoyed writing poems and learning about how stormwater and contaminants in the stream can be impacted to raise awareness that stormwater catch-pits are for rainwater only.
“It is necessary for us to raise awareness of the use of stormwater catch-pits so that people know to be careful of not introducing pollutants through these into our streams and waterways,” says Lee Corrick, Chair of the Albert-Eden Local Board.
"I’m pleased that we’re able to do it in a way that’s engaging for the community and our school kids had fun,” she says.
