| Lake Kimihia | |
| Pushpin Map: | North Island |
| Pushpin Map Alt: | Location of Lake Kimihia |
| Location: | North Island |
| Coords: | -37.525°N 175.1917°W |
| Type: | riverine lake |
| Catchment: | 1485ha |
| Basin Countries: | New Zealand |
| Length: | 1.1km (00.7miles) |
| Width: | 0.4km (00.2miles) |
| Area: | 0.55km2 |
| Depth: | 3.3m (10.8feet) |
Lake Kimihia is located approximately 5 km to the Northeast of Huntly, in the Waikato Region of New Zealand. Lake Kimihia is a riverine lake, which links to the Waikato River.[1] Lake Kimihia was significantly modified as a result of open cast coal mining, around the early 1940s.[2] A cofferdam was built to allow mining over most of the bed, by reducing the lake from its previous 318ha.[3] In the 1960s there were two lakes,[4] but the westerly one has been replaced by a wetland.[5]
The lake is situated within predominantly pastoral land. An area at the southern end of the lake is being developed into a wetland,[6] as the Huntly bypass of the Waikato Expressway is built across part of the former lakebed.[7]