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The Waipawa River is a braided river of southern Hawke's Bay, in New Zealand's eastern North Island. [1] It flows southeast from the slopes of 1,687 m (5,535 ft) Te Atuaoparapara (once known as 'Sixty-six') [ 2 ] in the Ruahine Range , past the town of Waipawa , before joining the Tukituki River . [ 3 ]
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This is a list of rivers in the state of Oklahoma, listed by drainage basin, alphabetically, and by size. In mean flow of water per second, the Arkansas is Oklahoma's largest river, followed by the Red River and the Neosho River .
The river held at that level for two hours, but by then the level at the east end of the dam failed, sending the downstream river level 2 feet (0.61 m) higher in a matter of minutes. [ 8 ] By the time the crisis had passed, Jones, Oklahoma and Spencer, Oklahoma , two towns downstream of Oklahoma City, had been surrounded by water.
Te Awa o Mokotūāraro, formerly known as the Clive River, is a river in Hawke's Bay, New Zealand. [1] At 33 kilometres (21 mi) long, it is the shortest of the main rivers flowing through the Heretaunga Plains .
The Tukituki River is in the Hawke's Bay region of the eastern North Island of New Zealand. It flows from the Ruahine Ranges to the Pacific Ocean at the southern end of Hawke Bay. The river flows for 117 kilometres (73 mi), east and then northeast, passing through the town of Waipukurau before flowing into Hawke Bay, close to the city of Hastings.
The river was forced to seek an alternative route and started to back up, and so the residents of Hawke's Bay dug out a new, alternate path connecting it to the Ngaruroro River, into which it still flows today. [4] On 14 February 2023, the Tutaekuri River experienced a major flood as Cyclone Gabrielle moved over New Zealand.
About 200 households were also evacuated in the Hawke's Bay town of Haumoana while 700 people were evacuated from the Gisborne township of Te Karaka. Local state of emergencies were declared in Wairoa and the Heretaunga Ward due to rising river levels and coastal inundation respectively. [7]