This settlement is really important because it provides for Tarawera awa restoration strategy group, an eight-member joint committee of the Bay of Plenty Regional Council with four members from iwi Ngāti Rangitihi alongside Ngāti Awa, Ngāti Mangakino, and Ngāti Tūwharetoa and for local councils. Their mahi will be to restore the mauri and the wellbeing of the Tarawera River and redress the harm that has been done by the pollution and those thousands of tonnes of pulp and paper effluent.