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Estuary Drain

A drain of the city, 1.0 km as the open map draws it, crossing 1 suburb.

As the line runs
1.0 km
Suburbs crossed
1

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

Bexley

The reports along it

140 council reports pinned within 150 m of the line, most often Rubbish & dumping and Trees & parks, 121 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.

Dumped Rubbish 208 Bexley Road, Bexley · 23 September 2026
Dumped Rubbish Anzac Dr · 17 September 2026
Dumped Rubbish Bexley Park 188 Bexley Road, Bexley · 5 March 2026
Dumped Rubbish Canterbury · 30 January 2026
Dumped Rubbish 188 Bexley Road, Bexley · 26 January 2026
Dumped Rubbish Canterbury · 11 December 2025
Abandoned Vehicle Canterbury · 11 December 2025
Overgrown Vegetation Canterbury · 11 November 2025
Dumped Rubbish 181F Bexley Road, Bexley · 7 November 2025
Road Signage 143 Bexley Road, Bexley · 6 November 2025
Dumped Rubbish 188 Bexley Road, Bexley · 2 November 2025

Questions, answered briefly

How long is Estuary Drain?

1.0 km as mapped, 4 ways in the open map, crossing 1 suburb.

Which suburbs does Estuary Drain pass through?

Bexley.

Is the line on the map the whole waterway?

It’s the centreline, the middle of the water as mapped on OpenStreetMap, not its banks. A line says where it runs, not how wide it is or whether it carries water today.

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/estuary-drain.md · every waterway as data: /waterways.geojson · /waterways.json · every roll, counted: /geography.