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The Piako River, which overflowed at least once a year, needed stop banks constructed to prevent flood and tidal overflow.
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It is situated around 33 kilometres east of Hamilton and 22 kilometres west of Te Aroha, close to the banks of the Piako River and Waitakaruru Stream.
Beyond this lie the Hauraki Plains, drained by the Waihou River and the Piako River.
It is the firth of the rivers Waihou and Piako, the former of which was formerly named the Thames River, and the town of Thames lies on its southeastern coast.
In its lower reaches, the river and the nearby Piako River form the wide alluvial Hauraki Plains.
The Piako River near Ngatea
The Piako River is a lowland river system that drains into the Firth of Thames on the North Island of New Zealand.
The Piako River has an annual mean flow of 17 m < sup > 3 </ sup > s < sup >− 1 </ sup > ( at Paeroa-Tahuna Road ), with a total catchment area of approximately 1, 440 km < sup > 2 </ sup >.
The Piako River has two major stems: the main stem arises in the northern slopes of the Te Miro-Tahuroa hills, descending as two distinct tributaries – the Piakonui and the Piakoiti Streams.
On the boundary of Morrinsville, the Waitakaruru Stream, which drains the northwestern Te Miro-Tahuroa Hills, converges with the Piako River.
As it progresses north, the Piako River is feed by small streams draining the eastern slopes of the Maungakawa Hills.
The Waitoa River catchment drains the Hinuera Flats and broad southern Hauraki Plains, before converging with the Piako River in the large wetland known as the Kopuatai Peat Dome, northeast of Tahuna.
The Upper Piako River catchment also drains the eastern aspects of the Hapuakohe Range through small tributaries.
Since the 1930s, considerable flood protection measures have been undertaken on the Piako River and surrounding catchment, especially mainly north of Paeroa-Tahuna Road and the Kopuatai Peat Dome.
* 50 year protection from Piako River flooding with 0. 3m freeboard
The original Piako River Bridge was built in Ngatea and opened in 1917.
In the earliest days all transport or access to and from the land was either by sea, river or canal, but with the first roads being developed, it was essential that a bridge be built over the Piako River so it could become a main route between Auckland and Tauranga.
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Ngatea lies on the Piako River, eight kilometres south of its outflow into the Firth of Thames.
The alluvial plains have been built up by sediment deposited by the Piako and Waihou Rivers, which flow north to reach the sea at the Firth of Thames, and earlier by the ancestral Waikato River.
After the last shift of the Waikato River back to the west coast, the Waihou and Piako Rivers were formed.
Control works in the floodplain of the Piako River played a big role in the draining of the Hauraki PlainsWork started immediately after the passing of the Hauraki Plains Act.
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Before the arrival of the European settlers the Hauraki Plains was 400 km² of peat and swamp land which acted as a big ponding area, through which ran two main rivers-the Waihou and Piako.
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But, once a year the Waihou and Piako Rivers would overflow, making agricultural settlement of the area difficult because of the poor drainage.
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He replaced his father Jack Luxton, who held the seat of Piako then Matamata for 21 years from 1966, and had been Chairman of Committees in Parliament.
Given this, the Toenepi Stream-a small sub-catchment of the Piako River-has been extensively used to research the impact of intensive farming on water quality.
The Piako River is much smaller than the Waihou, but it was just as important in the development of the Hauraki Plains.
Travelling up the Piako you would see Pipiroa, then Ngatea, both on the right, followed by Kerepehi, and the last town accessible by boat was Patetonga.
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No matter how determined or wealthy boating lovers of the Southwest had been, for example, they could never have created anything approaching the fifty square-mile Lake Texoma, located between Texas and Oklahoma, which resulted when the Corp of Army Engineers dammed the Red River.
There you'll witness a view which includes the Adirondack Mts. and the Winooski River.
At Yalta he thought more about the six million Germans who would have to leave, trying to find work in Germany, and Roosevelt objected to the Western Neisse River being chosen in the south, instead of the Eastern Neisse, both of which flow into the Oder.
Selkirk persuaded eighty men and four officers to go to Red River where they were to serve as a military force to protect his settlers from the hostile Northwest Company which resented the intrusion of farmers into the fur traders' empire.
In September 1822 two companies of infantry arrived at the mouth of the St. Peter's River, the head of navigation on the Mississippi, and began construction of Fort St. Anthony which, upon completion, was renamed in honor of its commander, Colonel Josiah Snelling.
In Ireland's County Limerick, near the River Shannon, there is a quiet little suburb by the name of Garryowen, which means `` Garden of Owen ''.
The legend as it exists in Fall River today always includes the solemn assurance that Bridget returned to Ireland after the trial with a `` big bundle '' of cash which Lizzie gave her for keeping her mouth shut.
One of those delightful surprise additions, which so frequently occur in jazz programs, was an excellent stint at the drums by the great Joe Jones, drumming to `` Old Man River '', which seems to have been elected the favorite solo for the boys on the batterie at this year's concerts.
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Even before Johnston arrived in Tennessee, two forts had been started to defend the Tennessee River and the Cumberland River which provided avenues into the State from the north.
Modern Armenia term means Republic of Armenia which occupies part of historical Armenia, whose ancient centers were in the valley of the Araks River and the region around Lake Van in Turkey.
The lowest points are in the valleys of the Araks River and the Debet River in the far north, which have elevations of, respectively.
To the southwest of the range is the Armenian Plateau, which slopes southwestward toward the Araks River on the Turkish border.
Terrain is most rugged in the extreme southeast, which is drained by the Bargushat River, and most moderate in the Araks River valley to the extreme southwest.
Light chose, not without opposition, a site on rising ground close to the River Torrens, which was the chief early water supply for the fledgling colony.
In the Coastal Plain are the Tombigbee River in the west, the Alabama River ( formed by the Coosa and Tallapoosa ) in the western central, and in the east the Chattahoochee River, which forms almost half of the Georgia boundary.
The Black Warrior River is a considerable stream which joins the Tombigbee from the east.
The true alligators are today represented to two species, A. mississippiensis in the southeastern United States, which can grow to 4. 24 m ( 14 ft ) and weigh 1000 lbs ( 454. 5 kg ) and the small A. sinensis in the Yangtze River, People's Republic of China, which grows to an average of 1. 5 m ( 5 ft ).
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