Cup and Saucer Creek | |
Subdivision Type1: | Country |
Subdivision Name1: | Australia |
Subdivision Type2: | State |
Subdivision Name2: | New South Wales |
Subdivision Type3: | IBRA |
Subdivision Name3: | Sydney Basin, Canterbury-Bankstown |
Subdivision Type4: | District |
Subdivision Name4: | Southern Sydney |
Subdivision Type5: | Municipality |
Subdivision Name5: | Canterbury |
Length: | 4km (02miles) |
Source1 Location: | near Wiley Park railway station |
Mouth: | confluence with the Cooks River |
Mouth Location: | Earlwood |
Cup and Saucer Creek, an urban watercourse of the Cooks River catchment, is located in the Canterbury-Bankstown region of Sydney, in New South Wales, Australia.
Cup and Saucer Creek rises in Canterbury local government area, near Wiley Park railway station and flows in an east north-easterly direction through the suburbs of Roselands, Kingsgrove and Clemton Park, where it makes its confluence with the Cooks River, within the suburb of Earlwood. The upper reaches of the creek are a piped drainage system, which becomes part drain and part creek in the lower reaches. The Cup and Saucer Creek Catchment Management Study by the Water Board in 1992 showed extensive toxic organics in the form of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and organochlorines.[1]
The creek is so named because of sandstone formations in the former bed of the creek.
A concrete culvert over Bexley Road constructed in 1920 is listed on the NSW State Heritage Register.[2]