Mangaone Stream
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The Mangaone Stream is a small watercourse in Palmerston North, New Zealand.
The stream has its headwaters near Pohangina, and flows south-west across the Manawatū Plains and through Bunnythorpe and the northern and western parts of Palmerston North, including the suburbs of Milson, Cloverlea, and Westbrook, Palmerston North before joining the Manawatū River on the western outskirts of Awapuni. Within the city it is fed by the Kawau Stream.[1]: 9 The total catchment is 165 square kilometres.[2]
In 2018 the stream was discovered to have been contaminated by PFOS from firefighting foams used at Palmerston North Airport.[3]
From 2019 to 2022 the stream was one of the targets of the Palmy's Plastic Pollution Challenge citizen science project.[4]