A pair of bridges—for pedestrians (background) and vehicles (foreground)—span the Opanuku at Great North Road. Kauri logs would once have thundered down this stretch of water on their way to Henderson’s Mill, but now the stream sees little traffic of any sort. With its sister stream, the Oratia, the Opanuku has become the focus of a project by Waitakere City Council to improve public awareness of the city’s waterways and inspire greater efforts to conserve them.