Category: Surveys

Summer Survey Results

4/13/2023

Lake Dunstan Charitable Trust launches biannual (twice a year) surveys to ensure the community’s voice is captured and shared with trustees and key stakeholders.

The summer 2022/23 survey focused on:
•Establishing high-use areas for boats and other uses (e.g. swimming, picnics, family)
•How to improve these spaces
•LDCT engagement
•Lagarosiphon (lakeweed) control works
•How information on control works reaches the community
•How it could be improved

Next biannual survey now live!

12/12/2022

Every six months we like to ask the community feedback on various aspects of Lake Dunstan to provide us and interested parties with information to use in future advocation and management of Lake Dunstan. The following questions will help us better establish commonly used areas around the lake, how you get information relating to LDCT and Lagarosiphon (lakeweed) control works and community planting days.

All information provided is confidential.
Survey closes 15th January 2022

Take the survey now

CRUX: Public asked to vote on priorities for Lake Dunstan

5/11/2022

Fresh water dolphins, commercialisation of the lake, invasive weeds and growing islands of silt –locals of Lake Dunstan – young and old - have pooled a myriad of aspirations and concerns about the lake as a community plan on its future starts to take shape.

Now, an online voting platform has been launched to determine which of the many Lake Dunstan issues and potential outcomes have the most support by the most people, so the community’s priorities for action can be nice and clear for decision makers.

Busy day with Shaping our Future

3/15/2022

We had a busy day visiting three schools in Cromwell and running our last online workshop to collect feedback for the community visioning report for lake Dunstan

The News: Future of Lake to be Discussed

2/24/2022

Three decades after the creation of Lake Dunstan, Central Otago residents are being urged to use their voice to determine what the next 30 years of the lake will look like.
Lake Dunstan Charitable Trust (LDCT) is partnering with Shaping our Future, a community-focused non-profit organisation, to hold surveys and workshops about the lake.

Crux: Cromwellians invited to guide Lake Dunstan's future

2/1/2022

Locals who get out and about on and around Lake Dunstan are being asked to help create a roadmap to guide how the lake is managed and used.
A survey and a series of workshops and working groups are planned to consult with members of the community on what they see as challenges and opportunities for the lake now and in the decades ahead.

Survey and workshops

Shaping our future coming to Lake Dunstan

1/11/2022

Left to right: LDCT Trustee; Karen Gallagher; LDCT Community engagement Coordinator, Megan Phillips; LDCT Trustee, Karleigh O'Hoera; Shaping our Future Chair, Vanessa van Uden; Shaping our Future executive, John Glover; LDCT Chair, Duncan Faulkner

ODT: Organisation to create lake vision

1/3/2022

The Lake Dunstan Charitable Trust has contracted the Shaping Our Future organisation to create a vision for Lake Dunstan this year.

Results from July/August Biannual Survey

8/31/2021

In July/August 2021 we ran a Biannual Survey to understand the concerns and values of the local community. This allowed us to present the findings to LINZ, council and local stakeholders such as Contact Energy so they could have a better grasp of how the community feels about various issues and uses of the lake.