Haumoana

Haumoana is a coastal town located in Hawke's Bay, New Zealand.

Haumoana is located just south of the Tukituki River outlet, on Hawke Bay on the east coast of the North Island in New Zealand. The area is flat and low lying, with hills to the southwest. The underlying soil material has been laid down by rivers and the sea margin. Particle size ranges from gravel to clay. Nearer the beach the area is underlain by free draining sandy-gravels but further inland the gravels are overlain by poor draining silt and clay rich soils. Parts of the beach are experiencing coastal erosion of 0.7 metres per year, which resulted in the removal of several houses along the gravel beach crest, and other beach front properties being inundated during heavy swells and high tides.