All the Latest News and Events for your Omaha Beach Community.
Further to our earlier post, and following representations to Beth Houlbrooke, Chair of the Rodney Local Board, along with Councillor Greg Sayers, we have now been advised by Beth as follows: Quote: Dear community groups Several of you have expressed your concerns either verbally or in writing regarding the impending closure of the Lawrie Road…
As we have previously noted, the Golf Club and OBC are working in tandem with the Rodney Local Board and the Auckland Council’s Property people to renew the leases for the Golf Course and the Community Centre. However, we are aware of Auckland Council’s review relating to its continued ownership of certain assets – one…
Below is Auckland Council’s media release on their proposed closure of the Waste Transfer Station … at this stage without a workable solution for a replacement! We would note that the Rodney Local Board was not consulted on this, nor involved in the decision making! We’ve also learnt that Councillor Greg Sayers is also on…
We’d like to draw your attention to a regional grant opportunity the Rodney Local Board has advised us of … thinking Omaha residents may have eligible suggestions and ideas they’re interested in. Click here for more details: Any relevant ideas and suggestions … feel free to email us at us@omahabeach.co.nz. We’d be happy to consider…
From Sunday 30 September 2018, Warkworth will be connected to Hibiscus Coast Station in Silverdale with new bus route 995. New bus routes 996 and 997 will replace the Kowhai Connection. These services will operate 7 days a week. Buses replacing the Kowhai Connection New route 997: will operate between Warkworth, Matakana, Point Wells and…
The Golf Club and OBC are working in tandem with the Local Board and the Auckland Council’s property people to renew the leases for the Golf Course and the Community Centre. This process commenced late 2016 and action is underway to achieve that outcome. Feedback from the Local board and Council officers has been both very…
Thanks to everyone who came out on last Sunday and helped get rid of the mangrove seedlings from the estuary! A special thanks also to those who cleaned up the beach areas on their own initiative before the others got there … Much appreciated! Thanks also to the Golf Club for providing the coffee and…
Why not have dinner at the Golf Club’s Cafe and Bar Friday night! Not a golfer, nor a member of the Golf Club? … No worries, as members of the Omaha Beach Community Inc. (OBC) are automatically social members and are welcome to use the facilities at the Community Centre. A great place to meet…
As you may recall in our summer newsletter we received a grant from Kiwibank Predator Free Communities Trust. We received 20 Good Nature possum traps, 40 DOC 200 stoat and rat traps and 40 rat traps. We deployed the rat and stoat traps in mid February mainly along a line behind the houses in Tawharanui…
If you are an Omaha Beach Community (‘OBC’) member, you should have received an email invitation to participate in our Rubbish & Recycling Survey. If you haven’t, please email us at us@omahabeach.co.nz and let us know. We think we have the Recycling sorted (or, it’s better, at least) … with additional weekly Recycling collections over…
Healthy Waters (part of Auckland Council) have provided an update on progress with the Omaha stormwater ‘issues’. Click here to read their full report.
Quick action from a group of locals, with assistance from Chris Martin of Insite Security, this week saved a young gull from a pretty horrible death as it was fully entangled in the discarded nylon & squid bait from a crab pot! The bird was located next to the large groyne at the Northern end…
The annual subscriptions for membership of the OBC are now due. At the AGM in January, it was agreed that the annual subs would remain at $70. For those members we hold email addresses for, you should have received an email from the OBC, requesting payment. For others, we have posted the request for payment…
Civil Defence – Coordinator Required! Current OBC resources are stretched, and we are urgently in need of some assistance / support in the form of a coordinator for Omaha’s Civil Defence, working with Auckland Council / local areas. Denis O’Callahan has done a great job with this so far, but can’t do it alone. We…
Download the Auckland City Council power point presentation on A Pest Free Omaha.
Please be vigilant this year when swimming – particularily at the north end, as unfortunately an illegally abandoned set net and crab pot were recently removed. These nets do pose a risk to swimmers, so if you do see one, please alert a lifeguard, or call Insight Security. You might be aware the Omaha Beach…
The Omaha Pou refurbishments have now been completed, with all five Pou being lovingly restored by the good folks from Ngati Manuhiri. Some of the brass plates are missing from the bases, and we have been informed that these are also being refurbished by members of Auckland Council. The Pou are a much treasured part…
The council have recently erected some more signs to warn people off from walking on the sand dunes. They have very good reasons to do this. Firstly, the Sand dunes are the communities first and major line of defence in the event of a major storm surge or Tsunami. Weaknesses in the dunes (where people…
After a number of concerned residents banded together with the OBC, we then had a great turnout by a number of Auckland Councils engineering experts, who agreed that the groynes system in Omaha was in urgent need of repair. We have subsequently had the first round of repairs agreed, and the work being carried out…
All dog owners please take note of the Rodney wide dog access rules, which apply to Omaha Beach: For the summer period, from Labour Weekend to 1 March , dogs are banned from the beach between 10am to 6.30pm. However, dogs are allowed on the beach before 10am and after 6.30pm, but must be under…
Former President Peter Jackson, with support from current President Peter Hooper, presented to the Rodney local Board in March to push for the development of a footpath from the roundabout to the Community Centre. The footpath is a project that many members of the community have been asking for well over 10 years, and is…
Check out this awesome video captured by long term local Sam Price. Sam used a remote control drone with go pro camera, and the footage show just how close the whale got to the beach. It was busy winter for wildlife in Omaha, with a rare leopard seal giving us a show on the boatramp,…
Thanks to all residents who responded to the newsletter after the flooding on Christmas Eve. We have now mapped some key areas for the council to consider while they draft plans to (hopefully) fix the northern end stormwater issues once and for all. To recap, In January, the OBC arranged a comprehensive site visit from…
We held a good meeting with the Council team who instructed us on the correct usage of the Pindone product and bait stations. Following this meeting we have given out 7 of the bait stations to residents and a have a total of 12 stations placed in and around the northern end. We still have 5 bait…
Significant works have commenced at the North end of Omaha Beach to repair and future proof the 3 groyne network. This is a major logistical project, with rocks up to 5 ton each being transported from the quarry in Hokianga. The much larger sized rocks are expected to provide Omaha with significant protection for many…
After a very long road, Omaha has secured a seasonal set net ban from Labour Weekend until Easter. The ban does not include crab fishing which is still of issue but apparently there will be closer monitoring of this by warrant officers in the area. The ban will be in place for a year and…
Auckland Council have agreed that Omaha has serious issues regarding stormwater that need to be addressed. A suburb wide study will commence in December 2016 to help build a modern flooding model, data assessment and schematisation. Tonkin and Taylor is the selected contractor to undertake this work. Once this data has been gathered the team…
As expected the long anticipated motorway extension from Puhoi to Warkworth has been approved with construction starting in December 2016. The expected finish date is October 2022. This is exciting news and shortens the existing Omaha commute by approximately 15 minutes. In addition, the Matakana link road was also recently approved which will open in…
Many local residents have been spotting a number of huge jellyfish that have been in our region for the past week. One jellyfish spotted in the Estuary was described as being bigger than a washing machine, while a number of boaties spotted very large ones in the bay. They are said to be Lions Mane…