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Rights: Photograph by John Greenwood, J Greenwood Photography Published 19 March 2014 Size: 62 KB Referencing Hub media

The confluence - or joining - of the Waipā River and Waikato River at Ngāruawāhia, laden with sediment after rainfall in 1998. Sediment may come from hill slopes or from eroding banks.

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    This resource provides explanations of the key terms encountered when exploring freshwater streams and rivers and native fish. This resource is intended to be used alongside other articles about ...

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    The Waikato River is 442 km in length – New Zealand’s longest river. Earliest history Earliest historical records suggest that, for at least a million years, a large lake in the centre of the ...

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