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Ilam Stream

A stream of the city, 2.9 km as the open map draws it, crossing 2 suburbs. Also recorded as “Kā Waimaero”.

As the line runs
2.9 km
Suburbs crossed
2
Register places near it
10

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

Avonhead · Ilam

On the register along it

Listed places within about 200m of the line, near the water, not necessarily of it.

The reports along it

1,259 council reports pinned within 150 m of the line, most often Roads & footpaths and Trees & parks, 968 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.

Water Leak 128 Waimairi Road, Ilam · 9 October 2026
Dumped Rubbish Staveley St near Nortons Rd, Avonhead · 7 October 2026
Pothole 151 Avonhead Rd · 3 October 2026
Pothole 159 Avonhead Rd · 3 October 2026
Overgrown Vegetation 29 Solway Ave · 30 September 2026
Trees - General 1 Thoresby Mews · 27 September 2026
Pavement - Damaged 91 Withells Rd · 24 September 2026
Water Leak 130 Waimairi Road, Ilam · 23 September 2026
Water Leak 33 Dovedale Ave · 21 September 2026
Dumped Rubbish 37 Tintern Avenue, Avonhead · 16 September 2026

Walks that cross it

The college and the homesteads

Questions, answered briefly

How long is Ilam Stream?

2.9 km as mapped, 11 ways in the open map, crossing 2 suburbs.

Which suburbs does Ilam Stream pass through?

Avonhead, Ilam.

What else is Ilam Stream called?

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

What’s on the record along Ilam Stream?

10 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/ilam-stream.md · every waterway as data: /waterways.geojson · /waterways.json · every roll, counted: /geography.