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Opuahou Stream

A stream of the city, 7.3 km as the open map draws it, crossing 1 suburb. Also recorded as “Puahou”.

As the line runs
7.3 km
Suburbs crossed
1

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

Little River

The reports along it

34 council reports pinned within 150 m of the line, most often Roads & footpaths and Trees & parks, 27 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.

Pavement - General 4403–4441 Christchurch-Akaroa Rd, Canterbury, Little River 7591 · 17 March 2026
Roads - General 11–43 Church Rd, Canterbury, Little River 7591 · 25 January 2026
Poles and Signage - General 47–147 Harmans Track, Canterbury, Little River 7591 · 14 May 2025
Pavement - Damaged 47–147 Harmans Track, Canterbury, Little River 7591 · 14 May 2025

Questions, answered briefly

How long is Opuahou Stream?

7.3 km as mapped, 1 way in the open map, crossing 1 suburb.

Which suburbs does Opuahou Stream pass through?

Little River.

What else is Opuahou Stream called?

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

Is the line on the map the whole waterway?

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