Meanings of stopbank in English

There have been 13 trucks and three diggers working to repair the stopbank.

The council will buy the land to put a new stopbank along the river banks.

Photo: RNZ The Bay of Plenty Regional Council hoped to finish work on the stopbank tonight.

Work has started to repair the stopbank breach.

Sir Michael Cullen is heading an independent review into the breach of the Rangitaiki River stopbank.

He said an investigation would be needed to determine how the breach in the Rangitāiki River's stopbank occurred.

Whakatāne District Council said it had been advised the amount of rain forecast would not threaten the stopbank.

Dairy farmer breaks stopbank without consent.

He says a critical part of the inquiry will be what led to the failure of the stopbank.

For 30 years, Reuben Cohen has owned his home on College Road, near where the Rangitāiki river stopbank breached.

But it says the reasons why a crucial stopbank collapsed are complex and no one thing would have prevented what happened.

The Whangarei Council is considering prosecuting dairy farmers who cut into a stopbank to let flood waters out following recent storms.

The West Coast Regional Council has given the the go-ahead to rebuild the Waiho River stopbank destroyed in flooding two weeks ago.

Richard Molloy said parts of his farm on the flats beside the Waiho River were two-and-a half-metres underwater after the stopbank breached.

It comes after a stopbank burst near their properties on Friday and another 150mm of rain fell on the district last night.

The Edgecumbe homes that were red stickered after a wall of water burst through the town's stopbank in April are finally being demolished.