River Buddy

Rainfall, Flow, Stage, River Guide and Lawa swimming suitability

See an overview of rainfall, flow and stage gauges that affect some of New Zealands Rivers.

** Favourites are now stored in the database, so you will need to re-asign your favourite gauges.

Covered Regions :

- Wellington

- Horizons

- Genesis

- Bay of Plenty

- Hawkes Bay

- Tasman

- West Coast

- Canterbury

- Otago

Key features:

- View gauge list

- indicates by colour if river is flowing above minimum flow

- indicates by colour if there has been rainfall in the last hour

- shows minimum flow or stage in brackets

- shows date and time of most recent reading

- indicates swimming suitability at site if available

- Google Map

- shows the gauges location on a Google Map

- indicates by colour if the river is flowing above minimum flow/stage

- indicates by colour if there has been rainfall during the last hour

- Gauge Details Chart

- Flow and Stage gauges displayed as line charts

- Rainfall gauges displayed as bar charts

- View specific values by touching the chart

- Zoom in to view more details

- River Guide

- Google Map containinig White Water NZ River Guide locations

- select a site on the map to navigate to the entry on the River Guide website.