Moonee Ponds Creek

Moonee Pond Creek as rain water drain in Brunswick West

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The Moonee Ponds Creek is a creek in the southern Australian state of Victoria. It is an important tributary of the Yarra River and flows through the northern suburbs and the city center of Melbourne.

In its upper reaches it flows through farmland near Greenvale and the plateaus of basalt at Woodlands Historic Park, which connects north to the airport Melbourne. Near the mouth of the river is dammed by tertiary caps in Essendon and Royal Park before it flows into the Yarra River.

In this highly urbanized area of ​​Moonee Ponds Creek serves as a concrete bed channeled rain water drain.

It winds through the city 's West Meadows, Meadow Heights, Tullamarine, Broadmeadows, Gowanbrae, Glenroy, Strathmore Heights, Oak Park, Strathmore, Pascoe Vale, Pascoe Vale South, Essendon, Brunswick West, Moonee Ponds, Ascot Vale, Flemington, Parkville and North Melbourne ( where his artificially expanded bed ' Railway Canal ' is called ), and finally flows at the Docklands in the Yarra River.

History

Before the colonization by European immigrants of the Moonee Ponds Creek was home to the Wurundjeri, a Aboriginesstammes the Kulin. Although there are no written records from that time, but it is likely that the creek was named after an Aboriginal Moonee Moonee which burned down along with Tullamareena, a tribal elder, in 1838 the first prison in Melbourne and fled. The area of Port Phillip in 1835 first settled by Europeans. The first land was sold in 1843 and 1845 at the Strathmore Moonee Ponds Creek.

The creek is a series of marshy ponds in the Bachaue, which originated near the mouth of the Yarra River extensive salt marshes, the Batman 's Lagoon were called. Was the marsh through the rapid development of Melbourne during the gold rush in Victoria in the 1850s soon became a catch basin for the wastewater from Flemington, North Melbourne and Parkville.

1879 Batman 's Lagoon drained and filled to make way for the railway depot of North Melbourne at its northern end. The southern end of the filled salt marshes was soon Dudley Flats '. There stole the impoverished urban population during the Great Depression in the 1930s, building material for their huts from the landfill.

In the 1890s the lower reaches of the Moonee Ponds Creek as a channel for the delivery transport of coal for the locomotives was used.

Straightened Between 1940 and the 1980s and channeled the Melbourne Metropolitan Board of Works - now Melbourne Water - to prevent the stream from Strathmore to Flemington Road seasonal flooding. These changes were part of a sprawling urban development of the lower Bachaue. In the largest part of its course through the northern suburbs of Melbourn the Moonee Ponds Creek is now a rain water drain in a concrete bed, which is guided parallel to the Tullamarine Freeway.

In 1998, the Moonee Ponds Creek Co -ordination Committee, Inc. ( MPCCC ) established to oversee the planning, restoration, training and the development of policies and procedures to improve the protection of the Moonee Ponds Creek and its tributaries. The MPCCC belong to the four LGA parliaments Hume City, Moreland City, Moonee Valley City and Melbourne City, as well as the Friends of Moonee Ponds Creek. The MPCCC also has excellent relations with Melbourne Water, Parks Victoria, the Department of Sustainability, the Department of Primary Industries and the Port Phillip and Westernport Catchment Management Authority.

2004 described a reporter for the newspaper The Age the creek as " proven to meistmißbrauchten tributary of the Yarra River and part of the real substrate of Melbourne".

In recent years, there have been some improvements, which focused on the expansion of the habitat and the stabilization, the new plant and replanting of the brook. In 2005, the water quality were classified aquatic life and water entertainment as "poor", the state of vegetation as "very bad" and the habitat and stability as "good".

During the year 2004, a larger rainwater collection program were in the catchment area of the river conducted wetlands created in Jacana and built Treibgutfänge. Recent work on the conservation of the habitat have led to some wild animals have returned to the stream, for example, the Pobblebonk Frog at Strathmore Secondary College and the rare Rotrückenreiher at the headwaters.

Along the banks of the Moonee Ponds Creek, from the Docklands in Melbourne until the Woodlands Homestead at Woodlands Historic Park, runs a combined foot and bicycle path, the Moonee Ponds Creek Trail, which connects several protected areas, parks and sports facilities on stream.