Cup and Saucer Creek explained

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.

Course and features

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]

External links

-33.9261°N 151.0969°W

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Existing Catchment Conditions: Cup and Saucer Creek. Cooks River Stormwater Management Plan. Canterbury City Council. 1999. 46. 9 April 2013. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120326083937/http://www.canterbury.nsw.gov.au/resources/documents/cookssmp_3.pdf. 26 March 2012.
  2. Web site: 29 October 2004 . Cup and Saucer Creek Culvert . . 23 March 2022.