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Rakaia River at Fighting Hill (ESNZ)

211m³/s

Sat, 17 Oct, 11:35 pm · 1 h ago

Steady

Good Likely dirtyLikely dirty: 2.9 d since the last peak, 1.6× the 30-day median; glacial, milky in warm weather

Good now, and holding · base flow 122 m³/s stays above 80

3 h change: -1.38 m³/s
Steady for: 15 h
7-day peak: 671
Thu, 15 Oct, 4:20 am
30-day median: 128
30-day range: 107 – 671
Mean annual flood: 2,520 m³/s
1-in-10-year flood: 4,040 m³/s
Highest gauged: 2,350 m³/s
Stage: 1.71 m
Recession: halves in 27 h
fitted to this recession, toward 122

Fighting Hill, just above the Gorge

Flow

m³/s · New Zealand time

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Recent rises

detected from hourly means

Peak	From	To	Rise	Settled
Thu, 15 Oct, 3:00 am	122	662	5.5×	33 h
Sun, 20 Sept, 11:00 am	144	195	1.4×	28 h
Thu, 17 Sept, 4:00 pm	130	177	1.4×	2 d

Along the Rakaia

Downstream

Rakaia Gorge

2.65 m

JBNZ river guide

Rakaia River, sections that cite this gauge are marked

Sections

Rakaia River

Excluding the Hydra Waters above the sign, and Glenariffe Stream.

Sea to the Wilberforce Class 1

Braided, shingle · 96 km · 4.1 m/km

Always boatable.

Launch SH1; Gorge bridge; Rakaia Huts (fee payable, please pay it)

Hazard: old bridge piles are now in all the main stems between the SH1 and rail bridges, visible or just below the surface.

Wilberforce to Jagged Stream Class 3 Closed April to June

Boulders, braided · 32 km · 7.8 m/km

Launch Lake Coleridge power station outfall

Please stop in the backwater before the Hydra Waters.

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 6 h ago. Open the PDF.

Weather

at Rakaia Fighting Hill · Open-Meteo

11pm

Fog

5.1°

–

2 N

2am

Fog

5.4°

–

1 N

5am

Fog

5.4°

–

1 NW

8am

Clear

8.9°

–

1 NW

11am

Clear

14.5°

–

4 SE

2pm

Clear

16.3°

–

6 E

5pm

Clear

16.3°

–

8 E

8pm

Clear

11.6°

–

3 N

11pm

Clear

10.5°

–

2 NW

2am

Clear

10.5°

–

3 NW

5am

Clear

9.7°

–

5 NW

8am

Clear

12.6°

–

7 NW

Sat Fog 5.1°/ 5.1° dry

Sun Fog 16.7°/ 5.1° dry

Mon Fog 16.1°/ 9.5° dry

Tue Fog 17.8°/ 7.4° dry

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