Halswell River
A river of the city, 18.5 km as the open map draws it, crossing 3 suburbs. Also recorded as “Hurutini”.
A live gauge sits on this water, Halswell / Huritini on /rivers, from Environment Canterbury every few minutes.
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
63 council reports pinned within 150 m of the line, most often Roads & footpaths and Rubbish & dumping, 47 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.
Damaged Road
Roads - General
Damaged Road
General Request
Roads - General
Damaged Road
Damaged RoadQuestions, answered briefly
18.5 km as mapped, 3 ways in the open map, crossing 3 suburbs.
Halswell, Kennedys Bush, Tai Tapu.
The map also records “Hurutini”, the page answers to all of them.
1 register place sits 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/halswell-river.md · every waterway as data: /waterways.geojson · /waterways.json · every roll, counted: /geography.