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The Rakaia River has a mean flow of 203 cubic metres per second (7,200 cu ft/s) and a mean annual seven-day low flow of 87 m 3 /s (3,100 cu ft/s). [3] In the 1850s, European settlers named it the Cholmondeley River, but this name lapsed into disuse. [4] The name Rakaia comes from Māori "Ō Rakaia", meaning the place where people were arranged ...
Pumps used to send water from the Rakaia River back up the penstock to the RDR. In 2010, TrustPower (now Manawa Energy) installed a river intake, fish screening, and pumping facilities to deliver the water from the Rakaia River to the RDR using some of the existing Highbank Power Station facilities. The Highbank Power Station site has been ...
The Rakaia River begins in the Southern Alps, providing approximately 4.2 Mt per year of sediment to the east coast. It is a braided river with a catchment area of 3105 kilometres squared and a mean flow of 221 cubic metres per second. [16] The mouth of the Rakaia River reaches the coast south-west of Banks Peninsula.
The Wilberforce River is a river in the Southern Alps of New Zealand. It is located in western Canterbury and is naturally a tributary of the Rakaia River, [1] but like the Harper River, it has had some of its flow diverted into Lake Coleridge as part of a hydroelectricity project. This diversion boosted the output of the Coleridge Power ...
The Central Plains Water Trust applications for resource consents may not have been technically used as security for the loan from Dairy Holdings Limited. However, the Christchurch City Council report clarifies that Dairy Holdings Limited, will now get the benefit of the first use of water from the Rakaia River, under the loan arrangement.
The water is discharged to the Rakaia River. While it initially started with 3 turbines, this was increased to 9 [ 2 ] by 1930 with a total power output of 34.5 megawatts (46,300 hp).
The Rakaia Gorge Bridge was completed in 1882 The Rakaia Gorge in flood. The Rakaia Gorge is located on the Rakaia River in inland Canterbury in New Zealand's South Island . Like its neighbour, the Waimakariri River , the Rakaia runs through wide shingle beds for much of its length, but is forced through a narrow canyon as it approaches the ...
The Little River is a tributary of Rakaia River, about 7 km (4.3 mi) long, in the Canterbury Plains of New Zealand's South Island. It rises on the 2,185 m (7,169 ft) Mount Hutt and enters the Rakaia 314 m (1,030 ft) above sea level.