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Mangapōike River

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290: 31: 247:. After over 144 mm (5.7 in) of rain fell on 9–10 March, the 50 m (160 ft) deep lake grew from 9 ha (22 acres) to 30 ha (74 acres) and soon to 33 ha (82 acres). The bridge to Mangapōike Station might have flooded if a channel hadn't been blasted on 28 March and 9 April, allowing water into another new 333:
is 50 ft (15 m), or 40 ft (12 m) high, covers 58 acres (23 ha) and filled in May 1948. A new pipeline and a 330 ft (100 m) tunnel now connects the 1948 Clapcott Dam, the 1972 Sang Dam (347,568 m (76,454,000 imp gal)) and the HC Williams Dam, built in
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in the valley, but they have no direct link to each other. From the tar-sealed Tiniroto Road, Kotare Road runs a few kilometres east. It ends at a gorge (named by one study as Haupatanga), which is over 100 m (330 ft) deep and largely inaccessible. Mangapōike Road runs through the Makaretu
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comes partly from reservoirs at the head of the valley. Water was first piped from the Mangapōike valley in 1917. In October 1942 ratepayers approved a £45,000 loan for a 246 million gallon 246,000,000 imp gal (1,120,000 m) reservoir, designed by G. F. Clapcott, the borough engineer,
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at 962 m (3,156 ft) is the highest point in the catchment, with the Mangarangiora Stream draining its eastern slopes into the Mangapōike. Whakapunake is traditionally where
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Stream valley to join the Mangapōike valley and then along the south bank of the river to Tukemokihi. The upper catchment is partly accessed by Paparatu Road.
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backed up for more than 50 m (160 ft) at the bridge where the Mangapōike joins the Wairoa. Te Puna Bridge, near Tukemokihi, had a pier damaged.
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damaged 9 of the 21water pipe bridges in the network and left two of reservoirs with cloudy water. Sang has an earth dam.
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formed after 25 February 2018, when about 200 m (660 ft) of a sandstone hill slipped and dammed the river. The
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was on Paparatu Road. It was built in 1938, had 14 on its roll in 1947 and closed between 1978 and 1986.
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with a 3.25 mi (5.23 km) pipeline and an 80 ft (24 m) tunnel to Te Ārai valley. The
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was open by 1931. It closed at the end of 2006 and was given back to its previous landowners in 2012.
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Stratigraphy and sedimentology of Pliocene limestones, Wairoa district, northern Hawke's Bay
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Mangapōike River map, showing locations of reservoirs, Whakapunake, Tukemokihi and Paparatu
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The main geological influence on the river is that it drains from the Mangaone
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and Ngātapa, as they served an area thought to have more economic potential.
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1974 (1,833,491 m (403,312,000 imp gal)). In 2023
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in 1905 favoured using the valley, with a tunnel linking it to
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was probably due to the river cutting into the foot of the
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snagged his fish hook. It is the northern boundary of
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in Hawke's Bay 10 kilometres (6 mi) northeast of
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Index


New Zealand
Mouth
Wairoa River
Gisborne Region
New Zealand
North Island
Waingake
Wairoa River
Frasertown
Gazetted
official name
Māui
Ngāti Kahungunu
rohe
Kordia
Anticline
Syncline
Cenozoic
limestones
Miocene
mudstones
sandstones
landslide
dip slope
bedding plane
grebes
Damien O’Connor
gravel roads
Te Ārai

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