Bridge washout after Cyclone Bola

Bridge washout after Cyclone Bola

Floods accompanying Cyclone Bola threatened to overtop the river banks and inundate the Hawke’s Bay town of Wairoa on 7 March 1988. The central span of the bridge across the Wairoa River was washed away. It was a serious blow: the bridge linked the two sides of the town and carried the water supply and sewerage pipes.