A new walk and cycle track connecting Tairua and Pauanui will get a $6300 injection from the Tairua-Pauanui Community Board's discretionary fund.

This week the board approved funding for the track that will run along the coastal margin of the Tairua estuary between Pauanui and Tairua.

A new walk and cycle track connecting Pauanui and Tairua has been granted $6300 from the Tairua-Pauanui Community Board this week. Photo: Hikuai District Trust

The total length of the track is 25km and will be a compacted gravel surface approximately 2.5m wide.

This week's grant will help pay for construction of the track but does not include labour and equipment costs.

Tairua-Pauanui Community Board chair Bob Renton says the amount of volunteer work that has gone into the project is phenomenal.

'Through tradespeople providing equipment, to just general volunteer participation it's just fantastic to see.

'Some people in our community have been putting in eight hours a day to help get the track built.”

Developed by the Hikuai District Trust, money from the board's discretionary fund will help build 450m of the track.

It will be constructed on the marginal strip of land administered by the Thames Coromandel District Council and be adjacent to the campground.

From the end of the existing Coastal Walkway track, it will join a bridge over Tangitarori Stream and follow the estuary to the south eastern side of the Tairua River.

The track will then lead to the old Hikuai Bridge before proceeding down the North Western side of the Tairua River and estuary.

Eventually it will link up with the public access way from the Tairua Primary School.

Where there is TCDC requirement for fencing, it will be erected on the land side of the track.

To learn more about the walkway visit www.pauanuitairuatrail.org.nz