Lake Rotoehu’s quality is generally poor. Over a number of years, Maori landowners have worked with Environment Bay of Plenty to plant lake margins, and this may have helped improve water quality by filtering nutrients.
Lake Rotoehu is a relatively quiet lake valued for trout fishing, kayaking and some
waterskiing. However since 1993 it has suffered major cyanobacterial blooms, and more
recently the spread of hornwort beds through much of the shallow areas.
Te Arawa value the Te Arawa Lakes and the Lakes' resources as taonga and continue to
maintain their spiritual, traditional, cultural and historical relationships with their ancestral
lakes.
Other information on this webpage includes draft working papers, lakes newsletters and minutes from community meetings and the working party.
Latest newsletter - August 2007
We are pleased to release the Lake Rotoehu Action Plan, which aims to significantly improve
the water quality of Lake Rotoehu through lake restoration actions over the next ten years.
To view click here.
The Action Plan outlines some key actions to improve lake water quality, such as:
Land use and land management changes on pastoral land to meet a nutrient loss reduction
target.
Implementation of Environmental Programmes to protect waterways.
• Hornwort biomass harvesting.
• Wetland construction.
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