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Submitted by model.citizen on Tue, 09/02/2010 - 9:02pm.
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i'm trying to find anything in NZ that's ditch/spillway-like and potentially skateable.

who knows of anything?

there's a 200m straight ditch in matarangi, though it's a bit hidden in the bush and potentially overgrown.

there's one opposite the Albany oxidation pond ("poopy pond" as my girls call it).

there's one on Hugh Green Drive, looks short, and ends in a pond (if yr not careful).

seems as though the North Shore has the potential to have a few tucked away i reckon.

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I have been looking

Submitted by nickfoard on Tue, 09/02/2010 - 9:05pm.

I have been looking on Google Earth but haven't found any yet. We should approach the councils or water company as they would know where they built them suckers. If they built any at all that is.

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nz doesn't have large desert plains

Submitted by Joe on Tue, 09/02/2010 - 9:30pm.

so we don't have the need for massive concrete rivers. I'd love some New Mexico style ditches

The only thing i've seen that's close to skatable is some canals in the central north island, but they're always full of water.

That's not to say there's none. Canterbury Plains and McKenzie country would be the best place to look I think

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around tekapo has quite a

Submitted by Seth on Tue, 09/02/2010 - 10:50pm.

around tekapo has quite a few

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whoa that big one from the

Submitted by model.citizen on Wed, 10/02/2010 - 7:45am.

whoa that big one from the Tekapo power station is a beast! imagine if that were dry?

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I was meaning the

Submitted by Seth on Wed, 10/02/2010 - 5:09pm.

I was meaning the tributaries but hell yes that would be pretty epic

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I found a layer to go on

Submitted by Joe on Fri, 02/04/2010 - 11:07am.

I found a layer to go on google maps of all NZ water races. Some of them are old (>100) mining races and farm ditches through to new hydro dam races. If there are some this is probably the best way to find them

http://koordinates.com/#/layer/1374-nz-water-races/

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Whats the matarangi one

Submitted by Kiwibomber on Fri, 02/04/2010 - 8:53pm.

Whats the matarangi one like?
It may be of my interests lol

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matarangi ditch????

Submitted by Lee on Fri, 02/04/2010 - 10:08pm.

oh shit there's one in matarangi? im there right now for a holiday ive got my longboard and camera, could someone please give Google map coordinates or something? ill try to find it and get footage

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looking pretty rough on google these days

Submitted by model.citizen on Fri, 02/04/2010 - 10:33pm.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=matarangi+co...

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thanks

Submitted by Lee on Sat, 03/04/2010 - 12:06am.

Thanks im in skating distance of that ill take a look tomorrow or the next day

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matarangi ditch help

Submitted by Lee on Sun, 04/04/2010 - 2:58pm.

I went to check this ditch out and the start which looks brown on google maps is made of dirt with sick yellow water, but if you follow this down on google maps you can see the ditch turns into what looks like white concreate, is this the skatable part?

Has anyone even skated this?

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