Avon Stream / Ōrakipaoa
A stream of the city, 1.1 km as the open map draws it, crossing 3 suburbs. Also recorded as “Avon Stream” and “Ōrakipaoa”.
Where it runs
The centre of the water as OpenStreetMap draws it, centrelines, not banks, and not every reach carries water year-round. The faint outlines are suburbs.
The suburbs on its banks
On the register along it
Listed places within about 200m of the line, near the water, not necessarily of it.
The reports along it
801 council reports pinned within 150 m of the line, most often Rubbish & dumping and Roads & footpaths, 583 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.
Rubbish and Bins - General
Pothole
Rubbish and Bins - General
Hazard, vehicle
Trees - General
Pavement - Damaged
Dumped Rubbish
Dumped Rubbish
Poles and Signage - General
Dumped Rubbish
Damaged RoadWalks that cross it
Questions, answered briefly
1.1 km as mapped, 5 ways in the open map, crossing 3 suburbs.
Avonhead, Ilam, Upper Riccarton.
The map also records “Avon Stream” and “Ōrakipaoa”, the page answers to all of them.
7 register places sit within 200m of its line, each opens its own record from this page.
The record behind this
The line is OpenStreetMap’s, every named way tagged river, stream, drain or canal inside the city boundary, merged by name (ODbL). A line says where a waterway runs, not how wide it is; the live gauges are instruments, kept on /rivers.
This page as markdown: /river/avon-stream-orakipaoa.md · every waterway as data: /waterways.geojson · /waterways.json · every roll, counted: /geography.