Kaikorai Stream

Kaikorai Stream
Kaikorai Stream, Dunedin
Country	New Zealand
Basin features
Main source	Wakari
River mouth	Pacific Ocean 0 m (0 ft)
Tributaries	Right: Fraser's Creek, Abbots Creek

The Kaikorai Stream is a short river which runs through the city of Dunedin, in New Zealand's South Island.

The stream drains the south eastern and eastern slopes of Flagstaff, Kaikorai Hill and the Balmacewen area, flows through Kaikorai Valley and Green Island and empties into Kaikorai Estuary. The water catchment area is 4,100 hectares (10,000 acres) and has about 15,000 residents. There are two branches both sometimes known as 'Kaikorai Stream'.

The branch of the Kaikorai Stream which flows through Balmacewen has its source in the Otago Golf Club's Balmacewen Golf Course. From here the stream flows mainly through culverts below Bishopscourt, a group of playing fields used by the Kaikorai Rugby Football Club and an intermediate school.

Below Bishopscourt, the culvert opens into a stream through the Shetland St Community Garden and Kaikorai Common. On either side are a marae and a retirement village. A pond and areas of swamp and forest and a community garden have been developed here in a wetland conservation project of the Dunedin Environment Centre Trust. This land was originally intended for a highway.

The stream is piped through the suburb of Kaikorai, past the Kaikorai Presbyterian Church and beneath social housing built on the former Kaikorai Cable Car depot. It continues partly in open stream but mainly in pipes up to 100 years old maintained by Dunedin City Council through private residential property.