Big rain, big pain, big cost - Canterbury's week of flooding devastation
Martin Van Beynen05:00, Jun 05 2021 ALDEN WILLIAMS/STUFF Beef and dairy farmer Rob Withers saw his Springburn farm, near Mt Somers, ravaged in the Canterbury floods, the geography of the land itself entirely redrawn by the power of the water. An intensively farmed region of Canterbury lying between the north branch of the Ashburton/Hakatere and Hinds rivers was one of the hardest-hit by this week's floods. Reporter MARTIN VAN BEYNEN spent four days in the area assessing the impact. Farmers in Mid-Canterbury knew it would be bad. The MetService warned that 200-300 millimetres of rain was exp...
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