High water at the Foxton River Loop
High water at the Foxton River Loop.
View from the balcony at the back of Te Awahou Nieuwe Stroom.
Moutoa Floodgate 6 Sept 2010
Aerial vew of the floodgates during a flooding incident in September 2010.
Photo from: http://www.horizons.govt.nz/about-us/who-what-where/news/rivers-watched-through-the-night/
Motor Boat on Flooded Manawatu River, 1980's-90's
Black and white photograph.
Written on back – (4b) Flooding – Whirokino.
A motor boat on the Manawatu River during flooding at Whirokino.
Black and white photograph.
Any use of this image must be accompanied by the credit “Foxton Historical Society”
Foxton Floods 1926
Mounted black and white photograph attached to grey card.
Foxton flood August 1926. This photograph shows four men standing on the jetty at Foxton Beach.
See also f1999.1452
Black and white photograph.
Any use of this image must be accompanied by the credit “Foxton Historical Society”
Rain and more rain.
A wet Sunday afternoon at Mako Mako Rd. and Hamaria Rd., flooding.
Weather in the Horowhenua
The sunshine coast ......... but some times not !
The slow big mend
At the back of the job, the foot-bridge in the front part of the tar surface that was washed away.
Gladstone reserve, Gladstone Rd.
A distant view of the slip
The slow big mend still goes on
What is left of cages that were full of stones to stop this happening.
Kimberley after 2008 flood
''Wow it looks so different" so the locals said,"Like we have been a way for a long time, not just New Year''.
Gladstone reserve, Gladstone Rd.
The river shows the least damage (I think due to good planning restoring the shore and banks over the past few years ) only a big slip and a high area of fresh bank cuttings in places.
The aftermath
The road down to the river.
A new river view.
The new view as you drive to the river ( this whole bank stripped bare to give a nice river vista.)lane lost from the bank to the root in the river .....
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