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From the air

aerial view of Platinum Drainage Reserve and the ground around it
From the air, LINZ / ECan aerial survey, CC BY 4.0

Platinum Drainage Reserve

A named wetland in Christchurch, at Wigram.

On the map as
wetland
The suburb
Wigram

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

252 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Roads & footpaths and Trees & parks, 198 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.

Park - General Request 2 Carrs Rd · 12 October 2026
Pothole 190 Awatea Rd · 2 October 2026
Pothole 115 Awatea Rd · 10 September 2026
Roads - General 135 Awatea Road, Wigram · 10 September 2026
Hazard, vehicle 47 Dow Square, Wigram · 7 September 2026
Hazard, vehicle 8 Atatu Lane, Wigram · 7 September 2026
Hazard, vehicle 51 Dow Square, Wigram · 14 August 2026
Pothole 135 Awatea Road, Wigram · 15 July 2026
Pavement - General 25 Dow Sq · 2 July 2026
Damaged Street Sign 7 Dow Sq · 2 April 2026

Questions, answered briefly

What is Platinum Drainage Reserve?

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

Where exactly is Platinum Drainage Reserve?

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/platinum-drainage-reserve.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.