BROWNS ROCK INTAKE CLOSURE:

June 4, 2025

This message is recorded at 10:00am Thursday 5th June 2025.

Due to continued rainfall in the catchment ECAN have flood warnings in place for the Waimakariri River.

The river flow has peaked at 580m3/sec in the early hours of this morning and the gates were shut down.
Zones 2 & 4 were shut off last night around 9pm due to the weather forecast overnight.

The Water Scheme intake gates will remain closed until further notice. It may require river works to reopen the intake once the flood water subsides.
We will update you as soon as the intake is able to be re-opened.

Jamie Hamilton
WIL Operations Manager

Waimakariri Irrigation Limited

Address:
267 High Street
PO Box 556
Rangiora

Phone: 03 313 0200
Email: admin@wil.co.nz

The Waimakariri Irrigation Ltd Scheme is a shareholder-owned cooperative company with consent to take water 11.041 cumecs from the Waimakariri River. Water is drawn from the Waimakariri River at Browns Rock for distribution through 1,100 kilometres of open race channels to supply around 200 shareholders. The Scheme supplies farms covering approximately 30,000 ha within an overall area of 78,000 ha and is located between the Waimakariri and the Ashley Rivers and between Oxford and Rangiora townships.

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