# The ground, chch.live

What the ground under Christchurch is like: where floods have run, what’s buried, what slopes and stones can do, and what the district plan says each piece is for.

- [What stood here](https://www.chch.live/map?layer=heritage)
- [Flood hazard](https://www.chch.live/flood-hazard)
- [The floods on record](https://www.chch.live/floods)
- [Tsunami reach](https://www.chch.live/tsunami)
- [Slope failure](https://www.chch.live/slope)
- [Rockfall & boulders](https://www.chch.live/boulders)
- [Fill & made ground](https://www.chch.live/fill)
- [Buried landfills](https://www.chch.live/landfills)
- [Remediated ground](https://www.chch.live/remediated)
- [The vulnerability map](https://www.chch.live/vulnerability)
- [Flood defences](https://www.chch.live/defences)
- [Hazardous sites](https://www.chch.live/hazards)

## The plan’s word on it

- [Zones](https://www.chch.live/zones)
- [The rules on the ground](https://www.chch.live/rules)
- [Designations](https://www.chch.live/designations)
- [Plan matters](https://www.chch.live/matters)
- [The listed city](https://www.chch.live/heritage)
- [Cultural sites](https://www.chch.live/cultural)
- [Ecological sites](https://www.chch.live/ecology)
- [Landscape overlays](https://www.chch.live/landscape)
- [Density standards](https://www.chch.live/density)
- [Noise contours](https://www.chch.live/noise)
- [Water margins](https://www.chch.live/water-margin)
- [All of it, counted](https://www.chch.live/geography)
- [Before: the founding question](https://www.chch.live/before)

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