Northland Flooding

Northland — Diggers will be a common sight in the Waiarohia Stream over the next several months as a major river maintenance project to reduce urban Whangarei flooding continues.

By Northland Regional Council
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Whangarei — An end to long-standing flooding in the Morningside area may be in sight following a decision by Council to progress with a flood management project this financial year.

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Northland — Police have received reports of flooding on some roads in and around the township of Ohura in the Ruapehu District.

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Northland — Civil Defence officials are warning Northlanders to brace themselves for widespread flooding over the next day in the wake of a new heavy rain warning issued for the region.

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Whangarei — Diggers will be a common sight in the Waiarohia Stream and Hatea River over the next two months as a major river maintenance project to reduce urban Whangarei flooding gets underway.

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Northland — The NZ Transport Agency says sections of State Highways 1 and 10 in Northland have been closed by flooding.

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Northland — A combination of $161,000 extra government funding and desire to better accommodate affected landowners has prompted changes to planned flood protection work for Kaeo.

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Northland — Northland is cleaning up in the wake of Tropical Cyclone Wilma with crews working to reopen roads around the region.

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Northland — The peak has past but about 50 people displaced by flooding in the Far North are still being assisted at temporary welfare centres at Kerikeri, Kawakawa, Kaeo and Haruru Falls.

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Northland — River levels in Northland are already dropping after the worst of the torrential rain moved south early this morning.

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Northland — Water supplies in the Paihia-Waitangi area remain a major concern in the Far North after the treatment plant at Haruru Falls was flooded earlier today.

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Northland — The remains of Tropical Cyclone Wilma that hit Northland overnight exceeded expectations lashing the region with heavy rain causing surface flooding, road closures and rain-swollen rivers topping their banks The bad weather arrived as forecasted with heavy rain saturating the region’s eastern hills north of Kaeo with 270mm to Whangarei in the south with 220mm.

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Northland — Northlanders – especially those in northern and eastern parts of the region – are being warned they may face widespread flooding this weekend with up to 350mm of rain predicted to fall by midnight Sunday.

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Kaitaia — More than $2 million of work including more than 200,000 cubic metres of earthworks and the removal of 2000-plus trees has resulted in marked improvements to the Awanui Flood Management Scheme, local authority experts say.

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Northland — Development on floodplains – particularly housing – has emerged as one of several key public concerns expressed during a recent round of meetings in flood-prone Northland communities.

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Northland —  A series of meetings with residents of some of Northland’s most flood-prone communities has begun and is already paying dividends according to local authority river management staff.

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Northland — A large landslip has reduced SH 11 at Lemons Hill Pahia side down to one lane.

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Northland — Rain has caused heavy flooding on State Highway 14 in the vicinity of the intersection with Whatitiri Road, Maungatapere.

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Northland — Residents of some of Northlands most flood-prone communities are being invited to meet with local authorities to update existing knowledge about - and help find possible solutions to  flooding issues.

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Kaitaia — More than 20,000 litres of water has been drained from a large, unstable hill posing a potential threat to Kaitaia township.

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Northland — Kaeo township roading north of State Highway 10 intersection with Whangaroa Road has suffered flooding overnight.

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Northland — There has been a sting in the tail of the severe weather which has been hammering the Far North over the last 48 hours.

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