Kōrero: Floods

Ētahi atu tūhononga, pae tukutuku hoki

• Environment Waikato – River levels and rainfall

  This page on the Environment Waikato site has extensive information about river flooding, and the council’s risk mitigation plans.

• GetThru - Flood

  New Zealand Government website with information of what to do before, during and after floods.

• Greater Wellington – Rivers and streams

  The Wellington Regional Council site includes graphs of river levels recorded by the flood metering equipment around the region.

• West Coast Regional Council - River Level and Rainfall

  This site outlines the flood monitoring operations on the West Coast of the South Island – a high rainfall area.

Ētahi whakaaro puaki, takenga

• Grayland, Eugene C. New Zealand disasters. Wellington: A. H. & A. W. Reed, 1957.
• Knight, Catherine. New Zealand’s rivers: an environmental history. Christchurch: Canterbury University Press, 2017.
• McCloy, Nicola. New Zealand disasters: earthquakes, eruptions, wrecks and fires. Events that rocked a nation.. Auckland: Whitcoulls, 2004.
• Morris, Bruce. Darkest days. Rev. ed. Auckland: Wilson & Horton, 1987.
• Mosley, M. Paul, and Charles P. Pearson, eds. Floods and droughts: the New Zealand experience. Wellington: New Zealand Hydrological Society, 1997.