Anger and questions over Edgecumbe Flood as talk turns to legal actionCHRIS McKEEN/Stuff.co.nz Work on rebuilding Edgecumbe's flood wall has begun. "A [regional council contractor] digger and a truck were there putting metal up against the foundations to bolster it. Furthermore, cracks had been appearing in the stopbank wall for years and he believed it needed to be reinforced earlier. For more technical questions, he deferred to Bay of Plenty Regional Council flood manager Roger Waugh. Therefore, it is not possible to stop any significant flood event; rather, it is matter of using what storage is available to reduce downstream flows during the peak of the flood event – and this is what was achieved.

Source: Stuff April 08, 2017 03:33 UTC