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Groom Creek

The 883rd longest river in the world

km

Groom Creek, which flows northwards from Fringed Hill then past Tantragee Saddle, is a tributary of the Maitai / Mahitahi River in Nelson, South Island, New Zealand. A 2018 project to recreate a wetland at the confluence of Groom Creek and the Maitai River was carried out by community volunteers and the Nelson City Council as part of Project Maitai, a Nelson City Council initiative to improve the health of the Maitai River and all its tributaries.

Flows through: New Zealand.

River data from Wikidata (CC0); lengths normalised to a common unit.

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