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Bower Avenue

58 reports at 5 addresses in Waimairi Beach, the first in 2020, the latest 2026. 40 separate days somebody filed something about it.

58 reports5 addresses40 days reported onfrom the air, then6 documents carry the namethe 1556th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

570 Bower Avenue, 30 reports562A Bower Avenue, 17 reports601 Bower Avenue, 4 reports574 Bower Avenue, 4 reports572 Bower Avenue, 3 reports

Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Bower Avenue, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Waimairi Beach.

From the air, then

Bower Avenue from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Bower Avenue from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Bower Avenue from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Bower Avenue 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. 6 on the shelf; the 5 earliest:

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

As it was reported

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Bower Avenue?

In Waimairi Beach, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Bower Avenue?

58 reports at 5 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (35), roads & footpaths (9), graffiti & vandalism (7).

When was Bower Avenue first reported on?

2020, the record covers 40 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

What is the busiest corner on Bower Avenue?

Bower Avenue and Travis Road, 48 police-reported crashes at the pairing.

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