In 2004, Boffa Miskell was engaged by Tauranga City Council to prepare a comprehensive landscape concept plan and resource consent application for the Papamoa stormwater reserve corridor of the Wairakei Stream.
The 78-hectare reserve is contained within a very narrow 10km-long drainage area with varying high to low levels of naturalness and urbanisation. The stream has important cultural associations for tangata whenua, despite its modified state, and contains several important archaeological features, including a unique swamp pā.