Bay flooding victims and emergency services getting back to normal

Flooding at Bledisloe Holiday Park in Maketu. Photo/Leanne Brown

Saturday was a much calmer day for those affected by Friday's flooding.

Tauranga City Council communications adviser Marcel Currin said the council's call centre logged about 100 calls on Friday. About 80 were for tree-related issues.

"Calls quietened down by mid-afternoon and by Friday night the council's response team was scaled down as the weather had settled," he said.

It did not appear there were any more flooding related requests for assistance after 6pm on Friday, Currin said.

A total of 95mm of rain was recorded at Tauranga Airport from 12am Thursday to 12pm Sunday, according to MetService. The most rain fell at 7pm on Thursday, with the airport recording 12.6mm that hour.

Tauranga, Mount Maunganui and Greerton fire stations also confirmed they had not logged any flooding related calls after that time.

Silver Birch Holiday Park co-owner Tony Makai said after major flooding woes on Friday, he had been extremely worried they were in for another storm late Friday night.

"But luckily things turned out all right and we were back to normal by Saturday morning."

Tauranga City councillor Leanne Brown, holidaying at Bledisloe Holiday Park in Little Waihi Beach in Maketu, said campers who left during the storm were starting to return again.

"All the clean up at the park was completed by Saturday morning. Everyone pitched in to help clear away the debris. The campers who left are starting to come back again."

"It was a pretty calm night on Friday and while the power was out for several hours things getting back to normal," she said.

Western Bay of Plenty District Council was not able to confirm how many flood related calls its call centre received since Friday until today.