The Wendonside Catchment Group formed in June 2019 when our community came together with a combined desire to further understand groundwater and surface water quality in our catchment. We have a growing membership that currently includes 46 properties. These properties cover 82% of the total area of our catchment. Properties in our group are mainly flat land to moderate rolling, and we have several hill country properties included along our northern catchment boundary.

We are an incorporated society that has established a funding model to collect funds from its members to finance approved initiatives.

As a Catchment Group we have many purposes. We wish to promote the role of farming in managing local water quality. We want to provide support to ensure good environmental farm management practices are in place. It is our intent to demonstrate, support and promote sound environmental stewardship amongst our members. We aim to undertake initiatives that will provide our members with sound technical information and give them opportunities to increase our knowledge of water quality and wider environmental topics. Ultimately, we want to ensure the ability of our members to farm sustainably, in a community which thrives and is not socially divided on the basis of nutrient allocation.