IRRIGATION WATER UPDATE

December 15, 2024

This message is recorded at 12.30pm Monday 16th December 2024.

Works have been completed at the intake this morning. Full flow was reinstated at 11am today at the intake.

Zone 2 will be mostly impacted. Irrigators please turn back ON today. Please allow for 8-9 hours delay from your normal start time that is supplied via the water metrics notifications.
Zone 2 water will start returning from approximately 3.30pm onwards from the Warren Road Eyre Siphon, please restart as water returns.

Jamie Hamilton
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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