Funded: $1.2m
Total cost: $2m
Project start year: 2024/25
This project will identify and upgrade floodgate assets east of Huntly in the Mangawara catchment, to ensure they continue to meet their required level of service to protect productive agricultural land.
Project benefits, adaptation, resilience and collaboration
Upgrading floodgate infrastructure is critical to ongoing flood resilience, for example, maintaining headwalls mitigates erosion of productive farmland and replacing pipework enables correct waterflows through the catchment, minimising ponding and upstream backflow issues.
This work will maintain the level of service of the assets for the purpose of agricultural production, while providing improved resilience to increased frequency and severity of rainfall events due to climate change.
Continued pastoral and agricultural production supports the local, regional and national economy, including through employment.
Local contractors and suppliers are also being used for design, materials and implementation of the project.
This work is co-funded by Waikato Regional Council and central government through Kānoa’s Regional Infrastructure Fund.
This project increases flood resilience for productive agricultural land, which supports the local, regional and national economy.
