Parts of Anne-Marie and her husband Chris's farm resemble a bombsite. Their six-hectare water storage pond is destroyed, fences are buried, machinery has been damaged and logs, branches, rocks, gravel and up to a metre of silt have been dumped on the Ashburton Forks property. "There's one pivot that was drowned, so we'll probably change its electric motors and of the two generators that run the pivots, one is written off and we're not sure if the other one can be repaired," she says. Photo: RNZ / Cosmo Kentish-Barnes "It's hard to quantify how we are going to tackle this problem," she admits.