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Water Level 24 hours
Rainfall 24 hours
Monitoring site comments
The Colliers Creek water level and rainfall recorder is situated on the Hokitika River in the mid Hokitika catchment, 37km upstream of the township of Hokitika. The site has a catchment area of 352km2. This site is operated for flood warning and does not record water levels less than 4.3 metres. A high flood water level of 7.1 metres was recorded at this site in January 1994. The First Stage Alarm Level for Flood Warning at this site is 6.0 metres.
This site records a mean annual rainfall of 7600mm and daily falls of up to 600mm.
This site is operated by the National Institute of Water & Atmosphere as part of the National Hydrometric Monitoring Network, and is a part of the West Coast Regional Council Flood Warning Network.