ALBUM - Flooding at Otira Gorge - Wallace`s Point and Lower Otira Gorge.Dec 1979.

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Description24 feet or 7 meters of rain per annum the valley of darkness commonly known as Otira. this was 1979. Normally the river runs about 10 meters lower on bedrock.Date of PhotoDec 1979Map^[1]ContributorNui Fisher

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Location (city or town)Wallace`s PointOtiraEventFlooding Otira Gorge - Wallace`s Point.Dec 1979.

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Date Created11th June 2023CommentsSue Murdoch
Remember that well. One of our more spectacular downpours

Pauline Schafer
That would have been the event that put my husband up there for a few months work building a new bridge.

Graham Robinson
was that the flood that the locomotive went in the river up there

Vic Ollerenshaw
I was road foreman at Otira 1966-69 and had a rain gauge up the top and it used to take 10 inches of rain to cause a decent flood. There must have been a big downpour to cause that.

Lois Iacoppi
When it’s not actually raining it’s dripping off the trees!

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ALBUM - Flooding at Otira Gorge - Wallace`s Point and Lower Otira Gorge.Dec 1979.

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