Aotea Lagoon

Aotea Lagoon is an synthetic lagoon surrounded with the aid of a 7-hectare public park in the Papakowhai suburb of Porirua, North Island, New Zealand. Aotea and nearby lagoons had been created while primary arterial transport hyperlinks were realigned from the natural shoreline to land reclaimed from Porirua Harbour. The lagoon is five hectares of seawater, connected to Porirua Harbour by way of a culvert below the model windmill. Three stormwater drains empty into the lagoon, two in the east bank, the 1/3 in the south-east under the marina.

The lagoon's "water frame gets restricted flushing and aeration" and "little can be achieved to improve water great with out huge engineering works." Poor water first-class manner swimming is illegal. The North Island Main Trunk railway and State Highway 1 used to run spherical three bays between Porirua and Paremata. In 1960, the railway become realigned to a causeway built between headlands at the mouth of Porirua Stream, Gear Homestead, gift-day Thurso Grove and Forth Place.