These are some of the smaller beautiful lakes within the Rotorua Lakes district which are under the guardianship of the Te Arawa Lakes Trust. They are Ngahewa (at the Murupara turnoff next to Rainbow Mountain), Ngapouri (along Waikiti Valley Road), Tutaeinanga (a very small lake near to Ngapouri) and Okaro (just along the Murupara Road a little). Being small these lakes are susceptible to pollution, particularly farm runoff. Okaro has had major issues and one summer recently suffered from aquatic hypoxia and so most organisms died in the lake. This also happened to Ngapouri number of years ago, but this lake has now improved significantly.
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