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From the air

aerial view of Cashmere Valley Upper Basin and the ground around it
From the air, LINZ / ECan aerial survey, CC BY 4.0

Cashmere Valley Upper Basin

A named wetland in Christchurch, at Cashmere.

On the map as
wetland
The suburb
Cashmere

Where it sits

The pin sits near the water’s middle; the strong outline is the suburb around it, the rest are its neighbours.

The ground under it

The plans and surveys kept here, asked once of the pin. The whole stack answers live: what stood on this ground →

Around it

The reports nearby

9 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Trees & parks and Roads & footpaths, 9 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.

Water Leak 110 Shalamar Dr · 6 December 2025
Roading/Streets 99, Shalamar Drive, Cashmere · 21 April 2021
Roading/Streets 99, Shalamar Drive, Cashmere · 19 September 2017

Questions, answered briefly

What is Cashmere Valley Upper Basin?

A named wetland in Christchurch, at Cashmere, as the open map records it.

Where exactly is Cashmere Valley Upper Basin?

The pin is OpenStreetMap’s own position for the wetland, roughly the water’s middle. Neighbours on the register are near it, not the same record.

The record behind this

The position and the names are OpenStreetMap’s, a named lake, lagoon, wetland or spring inside the city boundary (ODbL). The dual names are recorded as the map carries them; a pin is the mapper’s position, not a surveyed mark.

This page as markdown: /lake/cashmere-valley-upper-basin.md · the whole roll as data: /lakes.geojson · on the big map: /map?layer=lakes · the waterways: /river · the coast: /coast · every roll, counted: /geography.