Merri Creek Case Study

The suburb of Pyrmont on the shores of Sydney Harbour has been transformed by the processes of urban renewal into a thriving cosmopolitan residential area, an efficient and sophisticated business centre, and a popular recreational and tourist hub. Through my own observation of the Pyrmont area, I have seen how the painstaking urban planning efforts for the area have come to fruition, and a focal point of the Harbour foreshore created as a result of this.

‘Today in the 21st century the Wurundjeri community is still alive and well. Their continuous connection to country is still strong and unbroken’ – An insert from video ‘Welcome to Country by Wurundjeri Elder Colin Hunter Jr at the confluence of the Yarra River and Merri

Over a period of time, parts of cities tend to decay in the sense that they are not as modern as other parts or they have simply been neglected. This may include disused factories, railway yards and dockyard areas as well as residential areas. This process is known as urban decay and effected areas are often referred to as ‘blighted zones’ of the city. In the case of Sydney, urban decay is evident in the poorer quality terrace housing suburbs such as Newtown, Pyrmont, Ultimo, Glebe and Redfern, former railway workshops and yards such as Eveleigh in Redfern, former dock and railway areas in Darling Harbour and Pyrmont and former factory areas in Zetland and Rhodes. (ref. map on page 4).

Up until WWII, the area was primarily used for farming, with the fluvial plains adjacent to the Oxley Creek in particular providing rich soils for farming. With close proximity to Brisbane, the District attracted increasingly more settlers to the area. In response to this population growth, transport corridors such as Logan Road came to prominence as conduits for the flow of goods and people (Robinson

A site called Coobool Creek on the Wakool River, located between Swan Hill and Deniliquin in the Murray River Valley was where G. M. Black accumulated 126 skulls from the suface area near Doherty’s Hut at the Coobool Crossing in 1950 and they were studied by Brown. The 126 crania has been returned to the Aborigines for a reburial. The collection was named the Murray Black collection after G. M. Black who found it and the location in which in was found.

Melbourne extends along the Yarra River towards the Yarra Valley and the Dandenong Ranges to the east. It extends northward through the undulating bushland valleys of the Yarra's tributaries—Moonee Ponds Creek (toward Tullamarine Airport), Merri Creek, Darebin Creek and Plenty River—to the outer suburban growth corridors of Craigieburn and Whittlesea.

The site chosen for this report is the Moolap Waterfront and its hinterland. It is located 5km East of the City Centre of Geelong, South -west of Melbourne, Victoria. The site is generally flat topography with a significant coastal frontage and it’s considered to be a flood prone area.(This should go up)

The Wurundjeri Tribe resides in the Abbotsford Covent, which is situated in the Yarra city, including rivers such as Goulburn, Loddon, Werribee, Maribyrnong and Birraraung, which is also known to the Wurundjeri tribe as “Birrarung River of mist” (Aboriginalhistoryofyarracomau, 2016). These rivers also once outlined the boundaries to each separate Wurundjeri clan languages. These languages include Woi Wurrung, Boon Wurrung, Taung Wurrung, Watha Wurrung and DjaDja Wurrung. The Yarra Wurundjeri people spoke mainly Woi Wurrung language, which almost all of the words are used today by the decedents of the original clan. However, due to the fact that there are 5 sub-Wurundjeri languages, some words are slightly different. Many things were passed

Prior to examining the specific geographical features of Plaster Creek, it is important to understand what a creek is. There are many different ideas of what a creek is. In order to gain a factual understanding of what a creek essentially is, the dictionary definition of, “a natural stream of water normally smaller than and often tributary to a river” can be examined (Merrian-Webster). In addition to this, National Geographic defines a creed as simply, “any body of flowing fluid” (National Geographic). Creeks can vary greatly in size and are shaped by its surrounding geography.

The Ngarrindjeri is an Aboriginal nation is made up of 18 tribes, extending 30km along the river Murray (slsa SA gov, 2012). Having been ushered to leave their land, the Ngarrindjeri people were greatly affected by white settlement. Culture within the Ngarrindjeri nation is central to water specifically being the Coorong and River Murray (CSIRO, 2010). Having great relations between the water and their cultural beliefs, shows the general agreement which white people have come to learn; “living with the land” (ACME, 2008)

The Merrimack River, which flows through New Hampshire and Massachusetts, has a long and extensive history with battling pollution. For the past few centuries, the Merrimack has been a hub for industrialization. Particularly in the 1900s, textile mills sprung up all along the river due to the ability to utilize hydropower. While this development helped many cities industrialize and grow substantially, it also has led to extreme levels of pollution in the river. Since the Environmental Protection Agency passed the Clean Water Act of 1972, the Merrimack River has significantly improved in quality. Even so, there are still waste disposal problems that plague the Merrimack. Currently, sewage waste remains a considerable concern in polluting the

The plain as it is roughly seen today was created about 50-60 million years ago the region was a shallow sea; but the region had been a shallow see many times before this, as sea levels have risen and fallen over the past few hundreds of millions of years. As a recent the tertiary and quaternary sediment deposits found here can be up to 600m thick (NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service, 2003).

The area I have proposed for the new development is the Eastern Highlands. Eastern Highlands is located south-east of Australia alongside the ocean. With Australia’s population growing at a rapid rate, it is strongly recommended that we develop new settlements to meet the increasing demands of housing, and to create new jobs and facilities.

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Australia is the driest place continent on earth. This fact requires Australia to conserve its water by utilizing basin to prevent a shortage. One of the most famous water conservatory is Murray-Darling Basin that is located in the South-East of Australia. It has 22 sub-catchments and one of which, is the Mitta Mitta river, which is located in Victoria. The Mitta Mitta river contains 0.9% catchment areas, however, the river contributes 10% of the total water flow in the Murray-Darling Basin. The river flows across Victoria’s alpine scenery from Dartmouth, Eskdale, to Mitta Mitta and across four major tributaries. The aim of this paper is to outline the Mitta Mitta river in terms of its aspects that contribute to the Murray-Darling