Our blog is updated with news and events of interest to our lake community. Click on the Pictures or Headings to read more. Please let us know via our contact page if there are any items you would like added.
LAST CHANCE to have your say to Waka Kotahi on safer speed limits at the Eastern end of Rotoiti. Public submissions on the speed review finish 5pm Wednesday 7 July 2021.
A new page has been added to our website within “The Lake” section covering key boating risk factors, Rotoiti Harbour Master concerns & the BoP Regional Navigation Bylaw.
Our June 2021 Newsletter was E-mailed out Thursday 3rd June. If you have not received it you can read it on our website or become a member of LRCA to receive it by Email.
The 2021 year has begun similarly to 2020 with a prolonged period of drought. Accordingly lake levels have remained well below the desired minimum of RL279.10m.
LRCA recently represented your interests on a number of issues in its submission on your behalf to the BoPRC Long Term Plan 2021-31 Consultation Document.
Read historical updates about the Otaramarae area, the Rotoiti Saw Mill at Mourea, an 1876 health trip to Manipirua springs & discharging Rotorua effluent in the Kaituna river.
Our March 2021 Newsletter was E-mailed out Friday 3rd March. If you have not received it you can read it on our website or become a member of LRCA to receive it by Email.
RLC hopes to conclude onsite sewerage funding and contract matters, advise local communities and then report to Council with recommendations in March/April 2021.
Progress at Lake Rotoiti is delayed whilst BoPRC puts together lake structure data for Ngāti Mākino to enable them to provide their comments and cultural assessment.
Wallabies continue to be an invasive species of concern for BOPRC. This report outlines the results of their search for innovative ideas and new approaches for wallaby control in the Rotoiti area.
The book follows the life journey of Hinemihi, the historic meeting house which survived the Tarawera eruption, was moved to Surrey, England and is now returning home to NZ.