Brockman River

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The Brockman River is a river in south-west of the Australian state of Western Australia.

Geography

The river rises north of Bindoon Hills in the Wheatbelt region and flows south. It crosses the Great Northern Highway at the exit to Bindoon and Moora and follows the highway to the south. It flows through the city Bindoon, as well as the Lake Needoonga and Lake Chittering. Then he crossed the highway again to the east. It flows past the town of Chittering and leads finally to the north of Walyunga National Park in the Avon River.

The Brockman River has the largest catchment area in the region of the lower reaches of the Avon River and the upper reaches of the Swan River. The natural environment of the river was destroyed by deforestation of the original vegetation, leading to erosion and salinization.

Tributaries with muzzle heights

• Longbridge Gully - 155 m
• Wootra Brook - 151 m
• Spice Brook - 130 m
• Marbling Brook - 92 m
• Marda Brook - 66 m

History

The first European who discovered the river, was the surveyor Francis Thomas Gregory, of the river in 1853 by William Locke Brockman, a settler in the area with large land holdings and delegates of the Western Australia Legislative Council named.