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The Rakaia River as viewed from Mount Hutt. The Rakaia River is in the Canterbury Plains in New Zealand's South Island. [1] The Rakaia River is one of the largest braided rivers in New Zealand. [2] 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]
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.
In early 2007, the Central Plains Water Trust and the Ashburton Community Water Trust went to the Environment Court for a declaration that their 2001 consent application for water from the Rakaia River had priority over the consent application made by dairying company Synlait (Robindale) Dairies.
Flowing through the Ohio counties of Athens, Hocking, Vinton, Jackson, Meigs, and Gallia, according to Ohio Watershed Data, the Raccoon flows for 114 miles, discharging into the Ohio River.
RDR near Methven, looking South. Water is diverted into the RDR canal from the Rangitata River at Klondyke, near the Rangitata Gorge.From Klondyke, the 67 km long route of the RDR follows along the foothills above the Canterbury Plains and passes under several major rivers on the way to the end point at Highbank, above the Rakaia River.
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 most recent significant crest on the Ohio River was at just below 65 feet on March 5, 1997. That ranked as the ninth-highest crest recorded on the river in Cincinnati. The river crossed the ...
The Acheron River is a river in Canterbury, New Zealand, that flows from Lake Lyndon south into the Rakaia River. [1]Small deposits of coal are found near the river. In the 1870s, a proposal existed to extend the Whitecliffs Branch, a branch line railway, through the Rakaia Gorge to the Acheron River to access these coal deposits.