As part of our introduction to Rangitikei and Manawatu the Horizons and PNCC emergency management teams did a tour of the districts with a few experts in tow to give us the low-down on some of the highlights...
First stop, the Reid Line Makino River spillway. Rob and Cliff (Horizons Ops staff in orange) provided us with an overview of the works and some of the activities being undertaken in the next construction season. It was pretty boggy and still raining, but the team was interested in learning about this project. One quick lesson was to stay on the hard!
Malcolm (Environmental Management) and Jeff (Catchment Data and Information) helped us on the rest of the tour by providing overviews of the sandy hill country erosion, sustainable land use initiative, Utiku and Taihape landslide issues, Rangitikei at Mangaweka monitoring site and Dam 100 in the upper Hunterville flood detention scheme. General discussions about historical events and issues in the districts also helped as we moved from site to site.
Evan did a great job organising this so thanks to Evan and the staff that helped us out. Also to PNCC for the use of their van... great day guys.
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