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Papanui Stream

A stream of the city, 1.9 km as the open map draws it, crossing 3 suburbs.

As the line runs
1.9 km
Suburbs crossed
3

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

Mairehau · Papanui · Saint Albans

The reports along it

676 council reports pinned within 150 m of the line, most often Trees & parks and Roads & footpaths, 512 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.

Pavement - Damaged 133 Paparoa St · 11 October 2026
Poles and Signage - General Canterbury · 11 October 2026
Road Signage 54 Proctor Street, Papanui · 22 September 2026
Trees - General 30 Mary Street, Papanui · 22 September 2026
Park - General Request 31 Erica St · 20 September 2026
Hazard, vehicle 66 Proctor Street, Papanui · 19 September 2026
Playground Equipment Erica St Playground, Papanui Canterbury 8053 · 14 September 2026
Pavement - General 341 Cranford St · 11 September 2026
Pavement - General 5 Tulloch Pl · 1 September 2026

Questions, answered briefly

How long is Papanui Stream?

1.9 km as mapped, 7 ways in the open map, crossing 3 suburbs.

Which suburbs does Papanui Stream pass through?

Mairehau, Papanui, Saint Albans.

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