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The Hutt River (Māori: Te Awa Kairangi, Te Wai o Orutu or Heretaunga; officially Te Awa Kairangi / Hutt River) flows through the southern North Island of New Zealand. It flows south-west from the southern Tararua Range for 56 kilometres (35 mi), forming a number of fertile floodplains , including Kaitoke , central Upper Hutt and Lower Hutt .
The Hutt Valley (or 'The Hutt') is the large area of fairly flat land in the Hutt River valley in the Wellington region of New Zealand. Like the river that flows through it, it takes its name from Sir William Hutt , a director of the New Zealand Company in early colonial New Zealand.
Boulcott is a central suburb of Lower Hutt, in the Wellington Region of New Zealand. The suburb lies about a kilometre north-east of the Lower Hutt CBD. Boulcott takes its name from Almon Boulcott (1815–1880), who farmed in the area in the 1840s. [3] His father, John Ellerker Boulcott (1784–1855), was a director of the New Zealand Company. [4]
Silverstream is a suburb of Upper Hutt in New Zealand, just under 7 km (4.3 mi) south-west of the Upper Hutt CBD. It is in the lower (southern) part of the North Island of New Zealand at the southern end of Upper Hutt, close to the Taitā Gorge, which separates Upper Hutt from Lower Hutt. The area is sited at the mouth of a small valley formed ...
In 1928, the Hutt River Board agreed to the clearing of the stream between the road bridge and the outlet. [39] Later in 1929, the Hutt River Board commenced work on deepening and clearing the outlet of the stream. [40] [41] In 1931, the Hutt River Board reported that it had spent £1,000 in the previous 12 months on dredging the Waiwhetū ...
The Hutt Estuary Bridge was built across the Hutt River in 1954 to replace a 1912 bridge, improving the connection between Seaview and Petone. [27] More land was reclaimed from 1955. As of 2024, Seaview is a centre for bulk liquid fuel storage and heavy industry, and is also a base for support services for trucks and transportation businesses.
The Waiwhetu aquifer covers a wedge-shaped area of 75 km² under the Hutt Valley and Wellington Harbour, and by size is the fifth-largest in New Zealand. [ 1 ] The harbour basin contains massive quantities of gravel washed down from the Hutt River, in some places hundreds of metres deep.
The Pākuratahi River, previously the Pakuratahi River, is a river of the Wellington Region of New Zealand's North Island. It flows northwest from its source in the Remutaka Range 15 kilometres (9 mi) east of Lower Hutt to join the Te Awa Kairangi / Hutt River near Kaitoke .