The river management team at Horizons is responsible for maintaining the river and drainage systems in the region to minimise erosion and ensure optimum flood protection for our communities. With many urban communities located on flood plains, it is important to have an appropriate standard of flood risk mitigation for the safety of the community. The protection of the flood plains is also important for protecting productive land, which is important to the economic goals of the immediately affected areas as well as the wider region. Flood protection is funded through general and Scheme rates based on the amount of protection benefit each ratepayer receives. Horizons currently manages 34 River and Drainage Schemes across our region, maintains over 500 km of stopbanks, 509 floodgates, over 800 km of river channel, and more than 1,100 km of drains.
Scheme boundaries map
Stopbank grazing guidelines
Moutoa flood gates
River and Drainage Infrastructure Asset Management Plan
A monthly report of planned engineering works for River Flood and Drainage Scheme maintenance, repair, and capital projects is available here.
How to interact with the map
Scheme Liaison Committee Groups are informal groups established by Horizons to:
Click a download button from the list below to view a downloadable PDF of the information presented at the most recent scheme meeting.
Click a download button from the list below to view a downloadable PDF of the relevant drainage scheme.