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Hutt River in flood

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Hutt River in flood

Flooding in the Hutt Valley is a periodic problem. In November 1994 heavy rain swelled the Hutt River, which breached its stopbank and burst across its floodplain. This photograph looks south over Hutt Central to Seaview.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1994/3556/30

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Chris Maclean, Wellington places – Hutt Valley – south, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/13464/hutt-river-in-flood (accessed 11 June 2026).

Story by Chris Maclean, published 3 March 2009, updated 1 March 2016.