Floodplain Management Plans consider flood hazards, the risks for the community, as well as economic and social costs and develops a solution with the community. There are three floodplain management plans being developed in the Wairarapa. A plan for the Waiohine River is

underway, a local committee has been working with GWRC on flood risk solutions. The wider community will be able to comment on draft proposals in 2016.

Work on the Te Kauru Upper Ruamahanga Floodplain Management Plan began in 2014. Information is being gathered from a range of sources and ideas are being discussed by the Te Kauru subcommittee a combination of community, district and regional council members.

Right now the Te Kauru FMP Sub-committee is looking at the risks and solutions for floods in the Upper Ruamahanga River area. There are two groups of rivers, from the western side of the valley including the Ruamahanga, Waipoua and Waingawa rivers, as wells as those from the eastern Wairarapa hills: the Kopuaranga, Whangaehu and Taueru rivers.