Horrell Contracting foreman Dave Kenny stands on some rock overhanging the Waitahuna Stream, which flooded over night and washed away the diversion his team had in place, allowing them to work on the retaining wall which protects the road through the...
Students battle with the wind and rain crossing Forth Street on Wednesday. PHOTO: CRAIG BAXTER
Motorists drive through water on the Mosgiel side of Three Mile Hill on Wednesday morning. PHOTO: STEPHEN JAQUIERY.
The main trunk line south of Dunedin is partly submerged on the Taieri Plain. PHOTO: STEPHEN JAQUIERY.
Riverside road dairy farmer Shane Hildred loads up the last of his cows less than an hour before these yards filled with floodwater. PHOTO: STEPHEN JAQUIERY
Water spills over a natural spillway from the Taieri River into the lower ponding area at Riverside road. PHOTO: STEPHEN JAQUIERY.
Kayakers head down a swollen Water of Leith on Wedensday morning. PHOTO: CRAIG BAXTER
Otago Regional Council environment officers (from left) Matt Salmon, Ali McArthur and Simon Cullen measure the flow yesterday morning of the Kakanui River at the SH 1 bridge just north of Maheno, part of monitoring of rivers and streams carried out...
A student has wind assistance as he makes his way long Clyde Street on his skateboard on Wednesday morning. PHOTO: CRAIG BAXTER
The playground at the Lake Waihola waterfront is swamped. PHOTO: JORDAN KEAN.
Images of flooding in the Otago region from Wednesday, 26th May, 2010.