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The river valley near Ruatoria that keeps getting hammered by cyclones and storms

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The Waiapu River catchment near Ruatoria on the East Coast is like a laboratory for the affects of climate change and dodgy land use practices. Cyclone Hale in January carved off large chunks of farmland, brought down slopes and left hundreds of tonnes of forestry slash on the nearby Te Wharau beach. Graeme Atkins says poor land use choice from the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, when native bush was cleared from the hills, is coming back to haunt us today.

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The river valley near Ruatoria that keeps getting hammered by cyclones and storms

When Cyclone Gabrielle ripped through the Waiapu River catchment near Ruatoria, it was just the latest in a long line of destructive storms that are slowly making life unliveable.

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