More links and websites
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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.
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GetThru - Flood
New Zealand Government website with information of what to do before, during and after floods.
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Greater Wellington – Rivers and streams
The Wellington Regional Council site includes graphs of river levels recorded by the flood metering equipment around the region.
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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.
More suggestions and sources
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Grayland, Eugene C. New Zealand disasters. Wellington: A. H. & A. W. Reed, 1957.
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Knight, Catherine. New Zealand’s rivers: an environmental history. Christchurch: Canterbury University Press, 2017.
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McCloy, Nicola. New Zealand disasters: earthquakes, eruptions, wrecks and fires. Events that rocked a nation.. Auckland: Whitcoulls, 2004.
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Morris, Bruce. Darkest days. Rev. ed. Auckland: Wilson & Horton, 1987.
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Mosley, M. Paul, and Charles P. Pearson, eds. Floods and droughts: the New Zealand experience. Wellington: New Zealand Hydrological Society, 1997.