{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=July 2019}} {{Infobox lake | name = Lake Ohakuri | image = Ohakuri Dam Ohakuri Lake.jpg | alt = The lake from the crown of the dam | caption = The lake from the crown of the dam | image_bathymetry = | caption_bathymetry = | location = [[North Island]] | coords = {{coord|38.42273|S|176.125474|E|region:NZ_type:waterbody|display=inline,title}} | type = [[Reservoir]] | inflow = [[Waikato River]] | outflow = [[Waikato River]] | catchment = |pushpin_map=North Island | pushpin_map_alt = Location of Lake Ohakuri | basin_countries = [[New Zealand]] | length = | width = | area = {{convert|12|km2|abbr=on}} | depth = | max-depth = | volume = | residence_time = | shore = | elevation = | islands = | cities = }} '''Lake Ohakuri''', at {{convert|12|km2}}, is the largest artificial [[lake]] of the [[Waikato]] river system in [[New Zealand]]. It forms the reservoir for the [[Ōhakuri Dam|Ōhakuri hydroelectric power station]]. Construction of the dam, approved in 1955, began in 1956 and was completed in 1960.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mightyriverpower.co.nz/generation/aboutus/hydrostations/ohakuri/default.aspx |title=Ohakuri |publisher=Mighty River Power |accessdate=2008-02-13 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927043038/http://www.mightyriverpower.co.nz/generation/aboutus/hydrostations/ohakuri/default.aspx |archivedate=2011-09-27 }}</ref> The lake was filled over 14 days in January and February 1961. This drowned two thirds of the [[Orakei Korako]] [[Geothermal (geology)|geothermal]] area, including two of the world's largest [[geyser]]s, Minginui Geyser and Orakei Korako Geyser.<ref>{{cite web|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090402110522/http://www.wyojones.com/tall.htm |archivedate=2009-04-02 |url=http://www.wyojones.com/tall.htm |title=Tall Geysers |publisher=Minority Geoscience Program, [[University of New Orleans]] |first=Gregory |last=Jones |year=2006 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==See also== * [[Ohakuri Dam]] * [[List of dams and reservoirs in New Zealand]]
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