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Travis Swamp Stream

A stream of the city, 1.2 km as the open map draws it, crossing 1 suburb.

As the line runs
1.2 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

Burwood

The reports along it

442 council reports pinned within 150 m of the line, most often Graffiti & vandalism and Roads & footpaths, 362 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.

Dumped Rubbish 53 Kingsbridge West · 18 September 2026
Bus Shelter Issue Travis Rd, Burwood · 29 August 2026
Bus Shelter Issue Oruapaeroa Travis Wetland Nature Heritage Park 280 Beach Road, Burwood · 29 August 2026
Bus Shelter Issue Canterbury · 29 August 2026

Questions, answered briefly

How long is Travis Swamp Stream?

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

Which suburbs does Travis Swamp Stream pass through?

Burwood.

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