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Photograph of Graffitied Sign - which is mostly legible and reads: Welcome to Whites Creek Wetland - Whites Creek Wetland is your local wetland, it ....quality in Whites Creek and provides habitat for....animals. Wetlands were once a naturally occurring feature of .. creeks around Sydney. The creation of this man-made wetland was initiated by Ted Floyd of Friends of the Earth. The project was funded by the NSW Government's Stormwater Trust in partnership with Leichhardt Council. The wetland was filled with water in August 2002. Please take the time to enjoy and learn about the wetland.  - photograph Tom Worthington
Whites Creek Valley

Footprints Festival

Planned for June 2010! more..

Whites Creek Wetlands

"The Mayor for annandale (Alderman Allen Taylor) brought up a special minute at the last meeting of the Annandale council respecting the question of the consruction of the whites creek storm water channel..." - The Sydney Morning Herald 18 February 1898 page 8

Between 1898 and 1938 Whites Creek was converted into one of the earliest Concrete Storm Water Channels in Australia. In 2002, Wetlands were constructed adjacent to the creek.

The wetlands are now looking great with vigorous growth and a steady development of the aquatic ecosystem. Insects, tadpoles and many more little creatures are now breeding in the wetlands.

There are three known species of frogs making a loud cacophony of noise at night. Larger water birds are gradually finding the wetlands are a good place to have dinner.

Visitors enjoy the experience of a rare urban wildspace in a crowded highly developed inner Sydney suburb.

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Whites Creek Wetlands, 10 October 2009, Eco-Annandale Artists' October Walk, Photo: Marghanita da Cruz

Local residents appreciate the fact the pump is quiet, tadpoles eat mosquito larvae, no smells except in the polluted canal water and the flowering water plants give a stunning colour display.

During construction some people complained and now opinions have changed and few people object to the wetlands. (Source: Ted Floyd, Friends of the Earth, Eco-Sydney Campaign.)

More about the Wetlands

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Ted Floyd, whose work on Whites Creek Wetlands is featured in Green Urbanism Down Under: Learning from sustainable communities in Australia, with authors Peter Newman and Timothy Beatley at Current Thinking Seminar (Photograph: Marghanita da Cruz 31 March 2009)

Cities as Sustainable Ecosystems: Principles and Practices
By Peter Newman, Isabella Jennings

Whites Creek Parklands

Community Centre

The Whites Creek Cottage Community Centre was opened in March 2009.

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Nisswn Huts (Annandale side of the Creek) - A new home for Rozelle Bay Community Native Nursery

"Following a report to Council in June of this year [2008], consultation has been carried out to amend the current Plan of Management at Whites Creek Valley Park to enable the Rozelle Bay Community Native Nursery operations, currently operating at a site in the City of Sydney Council in Chapman Rd to be relocated to the Nissan Hut site in Whites Creek Valley Park." -www.leichhardt.nsw.gov.au

See pages 23/24 of Minutes of June Meeting: pdf and Organisational Implications report October 2008 pdf.

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