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Waterman Place

46 reports at 13 addresses in Ferrymead, the first in 2017, the latest 2026. 38 separate days somebody filed something about it.

46 reports13 addresses38 days reported onfrom the air, then1 document carry the name15 businessesthe 1589th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

39A Waterman Place, 9 reports2 Waterman Place, 9 reports39 Waterman Place, 5 reports30 Waterman Place, 5 reports27 Waterman Place, 4 reports36 Waterman Place, 3 reports1/27 Waterman Place, 3 reports1 Waterman Place, 3 reports59 Waterman Place, 1 report2A Waterman Place, 1 report20 Waterman Place, 1 report2/1 Waterman Place, 1 report1E Waterman Place, 1 report

Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Waterman Place, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Ferrymead.

From the air, then

Waterman Place from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Waterman Place from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Waterman Place from the air, 1975-1979
1975-1979 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. LINZ, CC BY 3.0 NZ. Each frame is cut from Environment Canterbury’s historic imagery MapServer for that decade, only where the Footprints layer names a CC BY survey (NZAM-covered spots stay out). RetroLens holds more Crown aerials →

The addresses on it

What got reported

Year by year

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history.

The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →

The businesses on it, 15

Premises whose address in the directory is Waterman Place, the commercial record alongside the civic one.

…and 3 more whose address names it.

The named ground

Named water within 150 m of a reported pin, measured to the line or the edge; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Waterman Place in 7 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

As it was reported

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Waterman Place?

In Ferrymead, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Waterman Place?

46 reports at 13 addresses, most often water & drains (16), graffiti & vandalism (11), rubbish & dumping (8).

When was Waterman Place first reported on?

2017, the record covers 38 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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