2y ago

Rotorua lakes full to bursting

'A slow-moving disaster': Rotorua lakes full to bursting

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Expect much worse for the next few decades.
- Yeah, I kinda feel sorry for these folks
  
  I think they should have known better than to get lakeside property so close to the waterline.
That's interesting, so do quite a few of these lakes not really have an outflow anywhere?
- I think so, Rotorua is a crater lake that apparently drains to Rotoiti, but Rotoiti doesn’t seem to drain to anywhere.
  I guess you could dig canals to connect all these bodies of water, and then connect that out to sea, but it would be a massive job.
- Yup, the one that feeds into Tararua, lake Rotomahana, where the pink and white terraces are buried, doesn't have an outfall. I think an artifical tunnel may have been built, but it doesn't normally have one.

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