Otukaikino Creek
A stream of the city, 8.6 km as the open map draws it, crossing 3 suburbs. Also recorded as “Ōtūkaikino”.
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
Ōtūkaikino Creek Swimming hole, the LAWA monitor that sits on its reach, LAWA keeps it on special status, graded unsuitable for swimming. 1 more monitored spot sits on its reach.
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
608 council reports pinned within 150 m of the line, most often Trees & parks and Rubbish & dumping, 461 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.
Graffiti on a road, footpath or bridge
Rubbish and Bins - General
Dumped Rubbish
Sediment - Construction
Park - General Request
Facility - General Request
Damaged Road
Damaged Road
Fallen Tree
Graffiti on a road, footpath or bridge
Dumped RubbishQuestions, answered briefly
8.6 km as mapped, 6 ways in the open map, crossing 3 suburbs.
Belfast, Coutts Island, Northwood.
The map also records “Ōtūkaikino”, 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/otukaikino-creek.md · every waterway as data: /waterways.geojson · /waterways.json · every roll, counted: /geography.