advertising is carried out each year on locally broadcast stations which involve many short educational messages, as well as personal interviews with staff when recent issues can be discussed. 4.2.3 Public Alerting The Council’s website provides an alerting tool known as Floodwatch which most residents in flood prone areas in the District use to monitor river levels and rainfall in their local catchments. It can provide sufficient warning to move stock or make further preparations as necessary. The public are also able to use various apps such as NZ Red Cross Hazards and Geonet and can find weather alerts on the Metservice website. Weather warnings are emailed and texted to all key stakeholders. Marlborough CDEM staff are proactive once alerts have been received from MCDEM or the Metservice and will contact key members of communities alerting them to the probability of an event escalating to a point where active management will be required. These contacts are generally members of the Volunteer Rural Fire Forces scattered throughout the District, Rural Support Trust members, residents’ association members, neighbourhood support coordinators or owners and managers of significant assets at risk such as campgrounds near rivers or the coast. Once alerted the community contacts then advise key members of the community and initiate an appropriate response. In some cases this is formalized through the Community Response Plans. Radio NZ and public radio broadcasters are channels which are used to get messaging out to communities but their coverage of the district is patchy at best. A privately owned radio station, Brian FM, has established a network of repeaters in Marlborough which give coverage of a significant proportion of the Marlborough population. The station owner has funded the installation of a repeater in the Emergency Operation Centre which allows CDEM staff to break into live transmissions and broadcast emergency information over the entire network. In late 2017 MCDEM implemented its emergency mobile alert system. This system enables messages sent by authorised emergency agencies to capable mobile phones. The alerts can be targeted to areas affected by serious hazards and will only be sent when there is a serious threat to life, health, or property and in some cases for test purposes. 4.2.4 Māori Engagement Māori make up 11% of the population of Marlborough. Three of the eight tangata whenua tribes in Te Tau Ihu (Rangitane, Ngati Kuia and Ngati Apa) are of Kurahaupo waka origins; three (Ngati Toa, Ngati Koata and Ngati Rarua) descend from the Tainui waka; and two are from northern Taranaki (Ngati Tama of Tokomaru waka origins and Te Atiawa of Aotea or Kurahaupo descent). In April 2014 the Te Tau Ihu Treaty Settlement legislation was passed giving effect to the final deeds of settlement for historical Treaty claims in the South Island. Iwi are now in a position to restore their mana whenua and they already run many community projects, including marae restoration and health centres. In the 2013 census, more than 8,800 people claimed affiliation with the Te Tau Ihu tribes. Te Atiawa and Ngati Kuia have made their marae in Waikawa and Canvastown respectively available in the event of emergency accommodation being needed. They have also installed radio communication equipment so are able to contact the EOC during an emergency. Iwi have been invited to be on the various operational and governance committees. As a result they are now represented on the Welfare Coordination Group, the Readiness and Response Committee and the Coordinating Executive Group. Marlborough Civil Defence Emergency Management Plan, 2017-2022 Page 34