Linwood Ave Waterrace
A drain of the city, 1.2 km as the open map draws it, crossing 2 suburbs.
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
Avon-Heathcote Estuary/Ihutai Humphreys Drive, the LAWA monitor that is ~150 m away, LAWA keeps it on special status, graded unsuitable 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
The reports along it
804 council reports pinned within 150 m of the line, most often Rubbish & dumping and Graffiti & vandalism, 594 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.
Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art
General Request
Hazard, vehicle
Dumped Rubbish
Graffiti on a bus stop or public toilet
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure
Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure
Dumped Rubbish
Dumped Rubbish
Facility - General RequestQuestions, answered briefly
1.2 km as mapped, 3 ways in the open map, crossing 2 suburbs.
Bromley, Woolston.
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/linwood-ave-waterrace.md · every waterway as data: /waterways.geojson · /waterways.json · every roll, counted: /geography.