Lake Rotorangi

Lake Rotorangi is the biggest lake inside the New Zealand vicinity of Taranaki. The reservoir turned into created in 1984 by using the damming of the Patea River. This is the first-rate location to go to on this town. Lake Rotorangi was fashioned in 1984 as a reservoir for producing electricity. The lake was formed by way of building an eighty-metre high earth wall dam near the cease of Ball Road in South Taranaki District. The dam created then filled the Patea River valley for a distance of approximately forty six kilometres to make the longest reservoir of its kind in New Zealand.

The Patea Dam is owned through Trust Power and rated at 31 MW output a hundred and fifteen GWh according to annum. Patea is operated as a peaking station. With round one week's garage capacity, the station generates strength over periods while strength expenses are highest. It is also a public camping floor, used inside the summer season for numerous water sports activities.