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From the air

aerial view of Lake Tahi and the ground around it
From the air, LINZ / ECan aerial survey, CC BY 4.0

Lake Tahi

A named lake in Christchurch, at Harewood. Also recorded as “Tahi”.

On the map as
lake
The suburb
Harewood

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 is ~300 m away, 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

45 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Trees & parks and Graffiti & vandalism, 38 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.

Water Fountain Canterbury · 18 May 2026
Park - General Request Canterbury · 28 October 2025
Public Toilet 1 Outlook Place, Harewood · 21 October 2025
Water Fountain Canterbury · 27 September 2025
Public Toilet Canterbury · 22 May 2025
Public Toilet Canterbury · 14 May 2025
Public Toilet Canterbury · 24 April 2025

Questions, answered briefly

What is Lake Tahi?

A named lake in Christchurch, at Harewood, as the open map records it.

What else is Lake Tahi called?

The map also records “Tahi”, the page answers to all of them.

Where exactly is Lake Tahi?

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-tahi.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.