Kereru Stream
A stream of the city, 1.4 km as the open map draws it, crossing 1 suburb. Also recorded as “Kererū”.
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.
Can you swim here
Purau Bay, the LAWA monitor that is ~300 m away, its latest weekly sample graded it suitable for swimming.
A water-quality risk grade, not a live verdict, after heavy rain any spot can turn. LAWA (Land Air Water Aotearoa) files the Canterbury sites for Environment Canterbury; its page is the one to check on the day.
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
5 council reports pinned within 150 m of the line, most often Trees & parks and Water & drains, 5 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.
Fallen Tree
Fallen Tree
Fallen Tree
Water Pollution - Sediment
Roads - GeneralWalks that cross it
Questions, answered briefly
1.4 km as mapped, 3 ways in the open map, crossing 1 suburb.
Diamond Harbour.
The map also records “Kererū”, 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/kereru-stream.md · every waterway as data: /waterways.geojson · /waterways.json · every roll, counted: /geography.