Bennett Brook (Australia)

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Bennett Brook
Bennett Brook at pedestrian bridge in Caversham 02.jpg
Bennett Brook viewed from a footbridge in Caversham in August 2021
Location
CountryAustralia
StateWestern Australia
Physical characteristics
Source Gnangara Mound, Stormwater from surrounding urban area
  location Whiteman Park
  coordinates 31°49′05″S115°55′08″E / 31.818°S 115.919°E / -31.818; 115.919
Mouth Swan River
  location
Border of Eden Hill and Caversham
  coordinates
31°53′38″S115°57′36″E / 31.894°S 115.960°E / -31.894; 115.960
Length13 kilometres (8.1 mi)
Basin size217 square kilometres (84 sq mi)
Discharge 
  average5.1 gigalitres

Bennett Brook is a stream which runs from Whiteman Park to the Swan River in Western Australia.

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Overview

Bennett Brook's catchment area covers 217 square kilometres (84 sq mi). Approximately half of the catchment area is covered by Whiteman Park and the Gnangara Pine Plantation. The rest of the catchment is urbanised, covering the suburbs of Ballajura, Beechboro, Bennett Springs, Kiara, Lockridge, Malaga, Morley and Noranda. The tributaries to the west are highly modified and partially underground. The tributaries to the north are mostly natural. [1] [2]

Upstream areas only flow between August and November. Groundwater pumping from the Gnangara Mound has made the flow lower than the natural flow. Downstream areas flow year round. Urbanisation has made the flow downstream higher than the natural flow, due to higher surface runoff from roads and houses. [1] [2]

Crossing

In the late 1930s the local authority, the Swan Road Board considered a bridge to cross the brook. [3] In the 1980s, the status of the area relative to indigenous concerns and environmental concerns made bridge making and other activity more restricted. [4]

Fauna

Animals found in and around Bennett Brook include:

Name

Bennett Brook is named after Matilda Bennett, the wife of John Septimus Roe. [6]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Bennett Brook 2011" (PDF). Department of Parks and Wildlife. Retrieved 1 August 2020.
  2. 1 2 "LWQIP Bennett Brook" (PDF). Department of Water. Retrieved 1 August 2020.
  3. "BENNETT'S BROOK BRIDGE". The West Australian . XLIX (9, 562). Western Australia. 18 February 1933. p. 12. Retrieved 1 August 2020 via National Library of Australia.
  4. Western Australia. Metropolitan Region Planning Authority (1985), Planning control area No. 5 : Bennett Brook, Metropolitan Region Planning Authority, retrieved 1 August 2020
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 "Bennett Brook". Whiteman Park. Retrieved 1 August 2020.
  6. New suburb of Bennett Springs Archived 15 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine – City of Swan Media Release. Published 29 April 2011.