Hawke’s Bay Regional Council contractors and staff have now installed two cameras to monitor the Wairoa River mouth.
The cameras are positioned to the north and south of the river mouth to provide maximum coverage of the potential areas that the mouth opening could travel or move to, Council said in a statement.
The cameras will take hourly pictures of the river mouth that will feed back to the Regional Council’s monitoring centre. The frequency of photos will be increased during weather events.
Hawke’s Bay Regional Councillor, Di Roadley said, “We are pleased to get these cameras up, and get them up earlier than planned. These cameras will now be part of our region-wide river level monitoring during weather events.”
Council says the next steps will be to set up a regular feed to the Wairoa District Council,
The camera views are also set to be made available to the public via Council’s website in the coming weeks.
