From the air
Lake Rua
A named lake in Christchurch, at Harewood. Also recorded as “Rua”.
Where it sits
The pin sits near the water’s middle; the strong outline is the suburb around it, the rest are its neighbours.
Can you swim here
Lake Rua Roto Kōhatu Reserve, the LAWA monitor that sits on its water, it is monitored but carries no grade.
A water-quality risk grade, not a live verdict, after heavy rain any spot can turn. LAWA (Land Air Water Aotearoa) files the Canterbury sites for Environment Canterbury; its page is the one to check on the day.
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
108 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Trees & parks and Graffiti & vandalism, 81 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.
Park - General Request
Park - General Request
Park - General Request
Litter
Graffiti on a playground or in a park
Park - General Request
Park - General Request
Park - General Request
Graffiti on a road, footpath or bridge
Park - General RequestQuestions, answered briefly
A named lake in Christchurch, at Harewood, as the open map records it.
The map also records “Rua”, the page answers to all of them.
The pin is OpenStreetMap’s own position for the lake, 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/lake-rua.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.