Thursday, 14 January 2021, 2:41 pm
Bay of Plenty Regional Council are implementing Level 2
of the Water Shortage Event Standard Operating Procedure for
some streams with headwaters in the west-southwest of
Rotorua.
The New Year has brought some weather
extremes to the Bay of Plenty, with some intense rainfall in
the Eastern Bay while dry conditions have been experienced
in most of the central and western parts of the
region.
This has resulted in several streams near
Rotorua experiencing very low flows. The Ngongotahā Stream
has reached its lowest recorded flow, for this time of the
year, since records began in 1975.
Both the