Waipara River at White Gorge

6.97m³/s

Sat, 17 Oct, 11:00 pm · 30 min ago

Steady

3 h change: -0.23 m³/s
Steady for: 7 h
7-day peak: 13.9
Fri, 16 Oct, 2:10 am
30-day median: 1.93
30-day range: 0.71 – 13.9
Mean annual flood: 110 m³/s
1-in-10-year flood: 250 m³/s
Highest gauged: 98.6 m³/s
Stage: 0.65 m

Flow

m³/s · New Zealand time

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JBNZ river guide

Waipara River, sections that cite this gauge are marked

Sections

Waipara River

Sea to White Gorge Class 3

Shingle, braided, willows, gorgy at the top · 24 km · 5.8 m/km

Launch Double Corner bridge, or SH1

Seldom boated due to low flows. Boatable in a fresh; watch for stock wires across the stream bed.

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 4.9 h ago. Open the PDF.

Weather

at Waipara White Gorge · Open-Meteo

10pm

Clear

6.0°

–

2 NE

1am

Partly cloudy

5.5°

–

4 N

4am

Fog

4.6°

–

6 NW

7am

Fog

4.6°

–

7 NW

10am

Partly cloudy

8.5°

–

8 N

1pm

Clear

15.5°

–

4 NE

4pm

Clear

16.8°

–

9 E

7pm

Clear

14.4°

–

5 E

10pm

Clear

9.3°

–

5 N

1am

Clear

8.5°

–

8 NW

4am

Fog

5.9°

–

11 NW

7am

Fog

5.4°

–

11 NW

Sat Partly cloudy 6.0°/ 5.8° dry

Sun Fog 16.9°/ 4.6° dry

Mon Fog 17.6°/ 4.9° dry

Tue Fog 18.4°/ 5.4° dry