Airport insect study to continue
Christchurch Airport will continue to employ its insect consultant in a bid to prevent bird strikes. A private consultant and entomologist, Dr Roy Harrison, was commissioned, with the airport’s farm consultant, Mr Ron Keating, to make a study on ground cover and insect control.
They recommended that no changes be made to the ground cover, pending evaluation of more effective management. They also recommended continuing evaluation of the cover and alternatives.
Regular monitoring of the insect population and appropriate controls were also recommended.
Dr Harrison’s appointment as consulting ento-
mologist for advice was approved yesterday by the Christchurch City Council’s airport and electricity committee. The long-term study of bird movements by Professor Peter Harper, of the University of Canterbury, and university students began this month with 30 hours of study each week for a year. The study will be the base for monitoring changes in bird population and patterns.
Civil Aviation security staff have shot 70 birds at the airport since November. The birds have been frozen for gut analysis by Dr Harrison.
The programmes will be reviewed in April at a joint meeting of airport,
Civil Aviation and other interested parties.
Lease A 12-year lease for Garden City Helicopters on land in Menorial Avenue at the airport will be signed. The lease was partly executive before Christmas but stopped so the council could check the site against its master plan.
The lease gives the helicopter firm security of tenure at the site, where it has a building and hangar on 4362 square metres of land.
The airport director, Mr Hugh McCarroll, said any development in the undeveloped area, could take place round the helicopter business.
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