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Totara Street

66 reports at 22 addresses in Riccarton, the first in 2019, the latest 2026. 54 separate days somebody filed something about it.

66 reports22 addresses54 days reported onfrom the air, then43 documents carry the namethe 1222nd street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

101 Totara Street, 9 reports149 Totara Street, 7 reports123 Totara Street, 6 reports6 Totara Street, 4 reports141 Totara Street, 4 reports139 Totara Street, 4 reports131 Totara Street, 4 reports92–118 Totara Street, 3 reports142 Totara Street, 3 reports132 Totara Street, 3 reports117 Totara Street, 3 reports106 Totara Street, 3 reports138 Totara Street, 2 reports134 Totara Street, 2 reports111 Totara Street, 2 reports90 Totara Street, 1 report146 Totara Street, 1 report120–146 Totara Street, 1 report118 Totara Street, 1 report113 Totara Street, 1 report103 Totara Street, 1 report10 Totara Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Totara Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Totara Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Totara Street 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. 43 on the shelf; the 8 earliest:

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

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.

Avon River / Ōtākaro river · 76 m away Okeover Stream stream · 120 m away unnamed jetty · 102 m away unnamed jetty · 121 m away

As it was reported

Litter, a report photoPavement - General, a report photoTrees - General, a report photoStreet Gutters / Storm Water, a report photoPavement - Damaged, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photoWater Leak, a report photo more photographs
on the Riccarton wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Totara Street?

In Riccarton, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Totara Street?

66 reports at 22 addresses, most often water & drains (19), rubbish & dumping (12), roads & footpaths (12).

When was Totara Street first reported on?

2019, the record covers 54 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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