Eastern Creek (New South Wales)

Eastern Creek
Eastern Creek
	at Nurragingy Reserve
Location
Country	Australia
State	New South Wales
Region	Sydney basin ( IBRA ), Greater Western Sydney
Local government areas	Cumberland , Fairfield , Blacktown
Physical characteristics
Source	below Sugarloaf Ridge
• location	near Smithfield
• coordinates	33°51′48″S 150°51′39″E / 33.863195°S 150.860733°E
• elevation	116 m (381 ft)
Mouth	confluence with South Creek
• location	Vineyard
• coordinates	33°38′38″S 150°49′39″E / 33.643844°S 150.827626°E
• elevation	3 m (9.8 ft)
Length	30 km (19 mi)
Basin size	36.22 km 2 (13.98 sq mi)
Basin features
River system	Hawkesbury - Nepean catchment
Tributaries
• left	Reedy Creek , Angus Creek , Bells Creek
• right	Bungarribee Creek, Breakfast Creek , Burdekin Creek, Quakers Creek
Nature reserve	Nurragingy Reserve

Eastern Creek , a watercourse ^[2] that is part of the Hawkesbury - Nepean catchment, is located in Greater Western Sydney , New South Wales , Australia .

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Eastern Creek rises in the western suburbs of Sydney , below Sugarloaf Ridge at Western Sydney Regional Park about 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) west by north of Smithfield . The creek flows generally north, joined by the Reedy , Angus, Bungarribee, Breakfast , Burdekin, Quakers, and Bells creeks, before reaching its confluence with South Creek , in the suburb of Vineyard . The creek descends 113 metres (371 ft) over its 30 kilometres (19 mi) course . ^[1]

Eastern Creek is transversed by the M4 Western Motorway and the Great Western Highway between Prospect and Eastern Creek ; and the Western railway line west of Doonside .

References [ edit ]

^ ^a ^b "Map of Eastern Creek, NSW" . Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia . Retrieved 26 December 2013 .
^ "Eastern Creek" . Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW . Geographical Names Board of New South Wales . Retrieved 26 December 2013 .

External links [ edit ]

"Eastern Creek" (PDF) . State of the waterways: Management plan . City of Blacktown . 2005. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 December 2013 . Retrieved 27 December 2013 .
- State of the waterways: Eastern Creek - Associated Map 1 (PDF) (Map). City of Blacktown . 2005. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 December 2013 . Retrieved 27 December 2013 .
- State of the waterways: Eastern Creek - Associated Map 2 (PDF) (Map). City of Blacktown . 2005. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 December 2013 . Retrieved 27 December 2013 .
- State of the waterways: Eastern Creek - Associated Map 3 (PDF) (Map). City of Blacktown . 2005. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 December 2013 . Retrieved 27 December 2013 .

33°45′S 150°52′E / 33.750°S 150.867°E / -33.750; 150.867

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[bonzle-1] "Map of Eastern Creek, NSW" . Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia . Retrieved 26 December 2013 .

[gnb-2] "Eastern Creek" . Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW . Geographical Names Board of New South Wales . Retrieved 26 December 2013 .

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v t e Waterways of the Sydney Metropolitan catchment, New South Wales , Australia
Major inlets and harbours	Botany Bay Broken Bay Middle Harbour Port Jackson Port Hacking
Minor bays and coves	Akuna Balls Head Bantry Berrys Blackwattle Burraneer Canada Careening Cove Cockle Dolans Double Elizabeth Gwawley Gymea Hen & Chicken Homebush Iron Cove Lavender Mosman Neutral Oatley Rose Rozelle Rushcutters Towlers Watsons Weeney White Woolooware
Lagoons	Dee Why Curl Curl Manly Narrabeen
Rivers	Cooks Duck Georges Hacking Hawkesbury Lane Cove Lennox (proposed) Nepean Parramatta Pittwater Woronora
Creeks	A'Becketts Angus Archer Badgerys Bardwell Bare Bedford Bellamy Farm Bellbird Bells Berowra Bidjigal Bilgola Blacktown Blaxland Blue Gum Boggywell Bonds Breakfast Brennans Brickmakers Bunbury Curran Bungarribee Burdekin Byrnes Cabramatta Caddies Cahill Camp Careel Carroll Charity Claremont Clear Paddock Creek Coal and Candle Coopers Cosgrove Cowan Coxs (Belfield) Cup and Saucer Darling Mills Deadmans Devlin Duck Eastern Erskine Eskdale Excelsior Finlaysons First Ponds Forbes Green Valley Frenchs Glenbrook Gore Grantham Greystanes Haslams Hunts Iron Cove Johnstons Kemps Knapsack Lalor Little Lowes Marsden McCarrs McKenzies McMahon's Maxwells Middle Harbour Mill Minchinbury O'Hares Orphan School Orphan School (Fairfield) Pendle Hill Powells Prospect Punchbowl Quakers Reedy Rileys Ropes Saleyards Salt Pan Sawmill Scout Second Ponds Smalls Smiths South Still Stoney Subiaco Tarban Terrys Thompsons Toongabbie Two Vineyard Werrington Whites Williams Wolli
Canals and streams	Alexandra Canal Busby's Bore Guildford West pipehead and water supply canal Hawthorne Canal Tank Stream Upper Canal System
Reservoirs	Balmain (disused) Botany Swamps Centennial Park Lake Burragorang Manly Dam Reserve Paddington (disused) Penshurst Petersham Lake Parramatta Prospect Upper Nepean Scheme Waverley
Adjoining rivers and bays	Akuna Brisbane Water Burke Cataract Colo Cordeaux Coxs Grose Hollanders Jenolan Jooriland Kedumba Kowmung Macdonald Mooney Mooney Mulwaree Nattai Tarlo Warragamba Wollondilly

v t e River systems and rivers of Sydney Basin , New South Wales , Australia
Central Coast	Avoca Lake Budgewoi Lake Lake Macquarie Lake Munmorah Ourimbah Terrigal Lagoon Tuggerah Lake Wamberal Lagoon Wyong Dora
Hawkesbury - Nepean	Avon Bargo Bedford Burke Capertee Cataract Colo Coorongooba Cordeaux Coxs Du Faur Erskine Grose Hawkesbury Hollanders Jenolan Jooriland Kanangra Kedumba Kowmung Little (Oberon) Little (Wingecarribee) Little (Wollondilly) Macdonald Mangrove Mogo Mooney Mooney Mulwaree Nattai Nepean Paddys Pittwater River Lett Rush Tarlo Tonalli Tuglow Warragamba Webbs Wingecarribee Wolgan Wollangambe Wollemi Wollondilly Berowra South
Sydney Metropolitan	Cooks Duck Georges Hacking Lane Cove Parramatta Woronora A'Becketts Archer Badgerys Bardwell Bare Bells Berowra Bilgola Blaxland Boggywell Breakfast Cabramatta Charity Clear Paddock Creek Coal and Candle Cowan Coxs (Belfield) Cup and Saucer Darling Mills Devlin Duck Eastern Erskine Glenbrook Gore Haslams Iron Cove Johnstons Kemps Middle Harbour Orphan School Orphan School (Fairfield) Powells Prospect Reedy Ropes Saleyards Salt Pan Scout Smalls Smiths South Still Subiaco Tarban Terrys Toongabbie Vineyard Whites Wolli
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