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Waiau Toa/Clarence River at Jollies (ESNZ)

24.3m³/s

Sat, 17 Oct, 11:05 pm · 27 min ago

Steady

Good ClearingClearing: 2.8 d since the last peak, still 1.5× the 30-day median

Good now, and holding · base flow 12.2 m³/s stays above 10

3 h change: +0.66 m³/s
Steady for: 5 h
7-day peak: 27.1
Thu, 15 Oct, 5:15 am
30-day median: 15.8
30-day range: 12.1 – 33.3
Mean annual flood: 190 m³/s
1-in-10-year flood: 310 m³/s
Highest gauged: 13.1 m³/s
Stage: 0.45 m
Recession: halves in 36 h
median of 2 past rises, toward 12.2

JBNZ: minimum 10 m³/s at Jollies, ideal about 15; the upper thresholds are placeholders

Flow

m³/s · New Zealand time

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Recent rises

detected from hourly means

Peak	From	To	Rise	Settled
Thu, 15 Oct, 4:00 am	12.2	26.9	2.2×	receding
Sun, 27 Sept, 4:00 pm	12.4	33.1	2.7×	4.7 d
Thu, 17 Sept, 8:00 pm	15.2	21.5	1.4×	17 h

Along the Waiau Toa / Clarence

Downstream

Waiau Toa/Clarence

119 m³/s

JBNZ river guide

Waiau Toa / Clarence River, sections that cite this gauge are marked

Sections

Waiau Toa / Clarence River

Sea to Jollies Pass Class 3 Note: for the part in the Kaikōura District a restricted discretionary resource consent is required

Boulders, gorgy, rapids, isolated · 185 km · 5.25 m/km

Minimum 10 cumecs at the Jollies Pass recorder, ideal about 15. Waiau Toa Jollies now 24.3 m³/s, above the minimum.

Launch Near the Acheron accommodation house, or from farmland near Glen Alton; Quail Flat with permission from Muzzle Station

Jollies Pass to Leader Stream Class 3

Rocks, boulders · 12 km · 6.7 m/km

Launch Off the riverbed where possible

Leader Stream to Lake Tennyson Class 4

Rocks, boulders · 24 km · 10.4 m/km

Launch Off the riverbed where possible

Requires above-average flows

From the Jet Boating New Zealand Canterbury river information sheet of July 2024, transcribed by hand on 17 October 2026. Uplifting is whether the 5-knot limit is lifted for the section. JBNZ can update the sheet at any time; flo checked it 5 h ago. Open the PDF.

Weather

at Waiau Toa Jollies · Open-Meteo

10pm

Clear

1.7°

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3 N

1am

Clear

0.1°

–

3 N

4am

Clear

1.3°

–

3 N

7am

Clear

1.3°

–

4 N

10am

Clear

9.7°

–

2 NW

1pm

Clear

14.2°

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2 SW

4pm

Clear

15.6°

–

8 S

7pm

Clear

12.9°

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3 SE

10pm

Clear

7.2°

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4 N

1am

Clear

4.3°

–

5 N

4am

Fog

-0.7°

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8 N

7am

Fog

-3.2°

–

9 N

Sat Clear 1.7°/ 0.5° dry

Sun Clear 15.6°/ 0.1° dry

Mon Fog 17.3°/ -3.2° dry

Tue Fog 18.4°/ 4.4° dry