Ōpara Stream
A stream of the city, 8.0 km as the open map draws it, crossing 1 suburb. Also recorded as “Ōpara”.
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
Okains Bay estuary, the LAWA monitor that sits on its reach, LAWA’s long-term grade for it is very low risk.
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
25 council reports pinned within 150 m of the line, most often Roads & footpaths and Trees & parks, 19 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.
Street Gutters / Storm Water
Animal - General
Pothole
Abandoned Vehicle
Abandoned Vehicle
Overgrown Vegetation
Fallen Tree
Hazard, vehicle
Overgrown Vegetation
Overgrown Vegetation
Roads - General
Facility - General RequestQuestions, answered briefly
8.0 km as mapped, 1 way in the open map, crossing 1 suburb.
Okains Bay.
The map also records “Ōpara”, the page answers to all of them.
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/opara-stream.md · every waterway as data: /waterways.geojson · /waterways.json · every roll, counted: /geography.