Tuggeranong Creek

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Tuggeranong Creek
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Spring on Tuggeranong Creek
Etymology Aboriginal: word meaning "cold plain" [1]
Location
Country Australia
Territory Australian Capital Territory
IBRA South Eastern Highlands
District Tuggeranong
Town centre Tuggeranong
Physical characteristics
Source Tuggeranong Hill
  locationeast of Theodore
  elevation700 m (2,300 ft)(approx.)
Mouth Confluence with Murrumbidgee River
  location
South of Greenway
  elevation
570 m (1,870 ft)(approx.)
Basin features
River system Murrumbidgee River, Murray–Darling basin
Reservoirs Isabella Pond, Lake Tuggeranong

Tuggeranong Creek, a partly perennial stream of the Murrumbidgee catchment within the Murray-Darling basin, is located in the Tuggeranong district of Canberra, within the Australian Capital Territory, Australia.

Contents

Tuggeranong is derived from the Aboriginal word, meaning "cold plain". [1] The traditional custodians of the land surrounding Tuggeranong Creek are the Aboriginal people of the Ngunnawal tribe.

Course

Tuggeranong Creek rises below Tuggeranong Hill, east of the suburb of Theodore and the Monaro Highway, formed through rural runoff within Monks Pond. The creek flows generally west and north-west, through Theodore, past the playing fields located in Calwell, through Richardson where it passes close to Tuggeranong Homestead, and through Isabella Plains, gathering urban stormwater drainage. Tuggeranong Creek is impounded at Bonython to form Isabella Pond, which is also impounded to form Lake Tuggeranong, a 57.1 hectares (141 acres) man-made artificial lake. [2]

The creek is dammed at Tuggeranong Town Centre along Athlon Drive. Although there is no clear channel, Tuggeranong Creek flows south-west to form confluence with the Murrumbidgee River, south of Greenway.

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References

  1. 1 2 "Tuggeranong Creek". Place name search. Government of the Australian Capital Territory . Retrieved 17 February 2013.
  2. "Carp management objectives and preliminary life history and conceptual models for carp habitat use" (PDF). Upper Murrumbidgee Demonstration Reach. p. 6. Retrieved 17 February 2013.

Coordinates: 35°25′37″S149°6′23″E / 35.42694°S 149.10639°E / -35.42694; 149.10639