Ridge or wall to hold back water.
1 There have been 13 trucks and three diggers working to repair the stopbank .
2 The council will buy the land to put a new stopbank along the river banks.
3 Photo: RNZ The Bay of Plenty Regional Council hoped to finish work on the stopbank tonight.
4 Work has started to repair the stopbank breach.
5 Sir Michael Cullen is heading an independent review into the breach of the Rangitaiki River stopbank .
6 He said an investigation would be needed to determine how the breach in the Rangitāiki River's stopbank occurred.
7 Whakatāne District Council said it had been advised the amount of rain forecast would not threaten the stopbank .
8 Dairy farmer breaks stopbank without consent.
9 He says a critical part of the inquiry will be what led to the failure of the stopbank .
10 For 30 years, Reuben Cohen has owned his home on College Road, near where the Rangitāiki river stopbank breached.
11 But it says the reasons why a crucial stopbank collapsed are complex and no one thing would have prevented what happened.
12 The Whangarei Council is considering prosecuting dairy farmers who cut into a stopbank to let flood waters out following recent storms.
13 The West Coast Regional Council has given the the go-ahead to rebuild the Waiho River stopbank destroyed in flooding two weeks ago.
14 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.
15 It comes after a stopbank burst near their properties on Friday and another 150mm of rain fell on the district last night.
16 The Edgecumbe homes that were red stickered after a wall of water burst through the town's stopbank in April are finally being demolished.
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