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Rangitātā diversion race

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Rangitātā diversion race

Water is diverted from this main race into smaller distribution channels that feed farm races leading to individual paddocks.

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Terry Heiler, Irrigation and drainage – Beginnings of irrigation, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/19689/rangitata-diversion-race (accessed 10 June 2026).

Story by Terry Heiler, published 1 March 2009.