Cup and Saucer Creek

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Cup and Saucer Creek
Cup and Saucer Creek and SugarMill NSW.jpg
Cup and Saucer Creek, at its confluence with the Cooks River.
Location
Country Australia
State New South Wales
IBRA Sydney Basin, Canterbury-Bankstown
District Southern Sydney
Municipality Canterbury
Physical characteristics
Source 
 • locationnear Wiley Park railway station
Mouth confluence with the Cooks River
 • location
 Earlwood
Length4 km (2.5 mi)
[1]

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.

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Course and features

Cup and Saucer Creek, 1901 Cup and saucer creek 1.jpg
Cup and Saucer Creek, 1901

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. [2]

The creek is so named because of sandstone formations in the former bed of the creek. [3]

A concrete culvert over Bexley Road constructed in 1920 is listed on the NSW State Heritage Register. [3]

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References

  1. ↑ "Cup and Saucer Creek". Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales . Retrieved 9 April 2013. OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  2. ↑ "Existing Catchment Conditions: Cup and Saucer Creek" (PDF). Cooks River Stormwater Management Plan. Canterbury City Council. 1999. p. 46. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 March 2012. Retrieved 9 April 2013.
  3. 1 2 "Cup and Saucer Creek Culvert". Office of Environment & Heritage . 29 October 2004. Retrieved 23 March 2022.

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