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Dune Lakes and Lagoons of the Horowhenua
Kete Horowhenua2020-03-23T17:03:19+00:00In addition to these dune lakes, Adkin identified many lagoons - some of which had ceased to exist by 1948. It is hard to work out which lagoons still exist today.
LAKES | ||||||
Name & Size | Picture | Location & GPS | Description | Other Name | Streams out | Streams in |
3.9 sq km | 2km west of Levin 40.6117 175.2498 | The lake, also known as Punahau, lies on a sandy plain two kilometres to the west of Levin and five kilometres from the coast of the Tasman Sea. It is a shallow lake, only some two metres in depth, fed by various small streams, and is drained by the Hokio Stream. | Punahau | Hokio Stream | Mangaroa Stream Pa Drain Patiki Stream (or ‘Kawiu Drain’) Domain Drain Queen St Drain Arawhata Stream. | |
In April 2013, a team of scientists from Waikato University undertook a pest fish monitoring programme. | A medium-sized perch caught in Lake Horowhenua | The results were reported in the local press - read here. | ||||
61.8 ha
UPDATE! |
| South of Lake Horowhenua 40.6423 175.2254 | A tranquil dune lake in the Horowhenua coastal plain,Lake Papaitonga is a dune lake in the Horowhenua coastal plain. The lake contains two islands, Motukiwi (Papaitonga) and Motungarara (Papawhaerangi). The latter is an artificial island constructed by Muaupoko residents in 1820 to extend their village. The reserve is an important refuge for birds that depend on wetlands or lowland forests for their survival. Papaitonga is home to waterfowl and wading birds as well as forest species on the lake’s margins. Lake Papaitonga and its surrounds make up 135 hectares of scenic reserve. Wetland and lush coastal forest surround the lake. | Waiwiri | ||
Mangapirau Lagoon, Waikawa Beach | In the Waikawa Beach dunes- at the end of Waikawa Beach Road. | |||||
28.44ha | Forest Lakes Road, Otaki 40.7252 175.1631 | 'Lake margin vegetation largely reduced and subject to grazing in parts but contains representative elements of this habitat type. Wetland habitat is nationally under-represented. Provides habitat for kapungawha and kereru.' Source: KCDC Heritage Register | Wai-taua Forest Lake | |||
16.72ha | Takapu Road, Otaki 40.7189 175.1690 | 'Dune lake-wetland, swamp forest, tawa forest. Provides an example of ecological sequence between dune lake, swamp forest and dry forest formally characteristic of the area but now uncommon within Foxton Ecological District.' Source: KCDC Heritage Register | ||||
Rotopotakataka Lake 2.38ha | Modified lake, some fingers recently Mixed indigenous/exotic, mown grass. Sedgeland, flaxland. No picture yet. | Forest Lakes Road, Otaki (Lake 2) | 'Tawa forest / Lake. Very small area of uncommon habitat types. The lake has been modified and has an artificial species assemblage. Although this fragment is very small and under threat from pest plant species, tawa forest is uncommon within the Foxton Ecological District. Provides habitat for kereru and is a component of a series of fragments in the area.' Source: KCDC Heritage Register | |||
LAGOONS | ||||||
Name & Size | ||||||
16.75ha | Described as: 'One of the few remaining dune lake and wetland associations within Foxton Ecological District and is representative of a formally more common habitat. Wetland habitat is nationally under-represented. However, the site is modified and exotic species are common. Provides habitat for bamboo spike-sedge and kapungawha. Protected by DOC Covenant.' Source: KCDC Heritage Register | 40.7064 175.1451 | ||||
| 40.4003 175.2628 | Maori-owned lake surrounded by private land. In 1989, Ngati Raukawa lodged a claim to the Waitangi Tribunal regarding Lake Koputara. | ||||
5.34ha |
| Wairongomai Rd, Otaki 40.7351 175.1463 | 'Wetland habitat is nationally under-represented. Small, fragmented and unfenced but provides habitat for spotless crake and kapungawha.' Source: KCDC Heritage Register | |||
Otawhaki Lagoon | Photo: 1 September 1929. | Western side of Lake Horowhenua, exact location unknown. | In his book “Horowhenua” (1948), Adkin states that the lagoon had dried up in recent years apparently from natural causes. Also “Deepest at its western end, the southern end was shallow and swamp-edged, and to north and south, artificial channels connected the lagoon with two small adjacent swamps." | |||
Pukehou Swamp 24.77ha | No picture available. | Forest Lakes Road, Otaki | 'Wetland, swamp forest, secondary indigenous forest - Best and largest representative example of wetland-swamp forest associations in Manawatu Plains Ecological District. Wetland habitat is nationally under-represented. Provides habitat for Korthalsella salicornioides, Hypolepis distans and Doodia australis (Enright et al. 2002; Ravine 1995). Protected under QEII Covenant and DOC Covenant.' Source: KCDC Heritage Register | |||
Purehurehu | No picture available. | Wairongomai Road, Otaki | Very small highly modified, drained and grazed. Dominated by rushland. Currently of low ecological value. | |||
Tangimate Lagoon | Near Waitarere | |||||
Te Hakari Wetland | Kuku Beach, Ohau, Horowhenua. | Despite being drained over the last century and considerably depleted, what remains of Te Hakari Wetland represents the most important area of its type in the region. | ||||
15.1ha | Waikawa Beach, Manakau 40.7154 175.1307 | Described as: 'Best dune lake with outflow to the sea in the Kapiti District. Wetland habitat is nationally under-represented. Provides important habitat for wetland species including kapungawha. Under considerable threat from stock and drainage.' Source: KCDC Heritage Register | ||||
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Staples Bush 1.28ha |
| 426 SH1 Nth, Otaki | 'Small fragment of kohekohe-mahoe forest on river terrace tread; an uncommon vegetation type in Manawatu Plains Ecological District. Indigenous vegetation on alluvial plain is nationally under-represented.' Source: KCDC Heritage Register | |||
Kahuwera Lagoon | 'One of the larger lagoons of the Horowhenua dune belt.' | |||||
Katihiku Lagoon | Need to check this! Possibly located at the western end of Swamp Road, Otaki near Katihiku Marae? |
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