Skeleton Waterholes Creek

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Skeleton Waterholes Creek - Wikipedia

Coordinates: 37°50′24″S 144°42′21″E / 37.84000°S 144.70583°E

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Skeleton Waterholes Creek is a waterway in the outer western and outer south-western regions of Melbourne, Victoria. The creek originates near Mount Cottrell, to the south of Rockbank, and passes through rural land until it reaches the suburban areas of Tarneit, Truganina, Hoppers Crossing, Altona Meadows and Point Cook before it flows into Port Phillip Bay after the Cheetham Wetlands. The creek has important local Aboriginal spiritual significance, and parts of the creek are popular sites for recreation(various).

Environmental condition

It has been classed as being in "moderate condition" by Melbourne Water,^[1] but it is becoming increasingly urbanised as new developments extend across the catchment from Hoppers Crossing and surrounding areas. This new development poses a major risk to the health of the river, as does the poor quality of both the creek's water and streamside vegetation along significant parts of the waterway.

A recent defence force study of PFAS contamination on defence bases has indicated some groundwater contamination from sites at the partially decommissioned Williams Landing airforce base. Hydrological studies show that this groundwater flows into Skeleton Creek, and caution should be taken with consuming fish and eels from this creek.

References

^ Healthy Waterways - Waterwatch Program - Your Local Waterway > Werribee Catchment > Skeleton Creek Archived 2011-02-21 at the Wayback Machine

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37°50′24″S 144°42′21″E / 37.84000°S 144.70583°E / -37.84000; 144.70583

v t e Waterways of the Melbourne Water catchment, Victoria, Australia
Rivers	Bass Bunyip Don Lang Lang Lerderderg Little (Greater Geelong) Little Bass Little Lang Lang Little Yarra Maribyrnong O'Shannassy Patterson Plenty Tarago The Old Watts Werribee Yarra
Creeks	Andersons (Manningham) Arthurs Ararat Back (Cardinia) Balcombe Balliang Banyule Barbers Baxter Big Pats Blind Bolinda Boyd Britannia Bruces Brushy Cannibal Cardinia Cement Charlies Cherry Cockatoo Coranderrk (ex-Badger) Corhanwarrabul Dale Dandenong Darebin Deep (Cardinia) Deep (Hume) Diamond (Cardinia) Diamond (Nillumbik) Dixons Djerriwarrh Drum Drum Alloc Dunns Edgars Emu Eumemmerring Gisborne Glass Goodmans Hoddles Jackson Jones Kananook King Parrot (Baw Baw) Konagaderra Koonung Koonung Kooyongkoot (ex-Gardiners) Kororoit Labertouche Lollipop Longview Main Manton Mccrae Merlynston Merri Moonee Ponds Mordialloc Mullum Mullum Musk O'Mahoney's Olinda Pauls Parwan Pheasant Pykes Pyrites Reilies Riddells Ruffey Running (Nillumbik) Scrubby Skeleton Spring (Moorabool) Starvation Steels Stony (Maribyrnong) Stony (Mornington) Taylors Toolern Toomuc Wandin Yallock Warringine Watsons Woori Yallock Yallock
Lakes	Albert Park Lake Caribbean Lake Cardinia Reservoir Cherry Lake Devilbend Reservoir Greenvale Reservoir Lillydale Lake Lysterfield Lake Maroondah Reservoir Melton Reservoir Merrimu Reservoir Pykes Creek Reservoir Rosslynne Reservoir Ruffey Lake Silvan Reservoir Sugarloaf Reservoir Tarago Reservoir Upper Yarra Reservoir Yan Yean Reservoir
Drains	Bunyip Main Drain Wylies Drain
Other	Port Phillip Western Port
Rivers of Victoria Lakes of Victoria Melbourne Water catchment

Rivers of Victoria

Rivers that flow towards the coast

Tasman Sea / Bass Strait

East Gippsland catchment	Ada (East Gippsland) Arte Back Lake Barracoota Bemm Bendoc Benedore Berrima Betka Big (Brodribb) Bonang Brodribb Buchan Cann Cann River East Combienbar Lake Corringle Crooked Lake Curlip Dargo Deddick Delegate Dry Errinundra Genoa Gippsland Lakes Lake King Lake Victoria (East Gippsland) Goolengook Hartland Humffray Ingeegoodbee Jack (East Gippsland) Little (Moroka) Little (Snowy River NP) Little (Sydenham Inlet) Little (Tambo) Little Arte Little Dargo Little Goolengook Little Yalmy McKenzie Mitchell Moroka Mueller Murrindal Nicholson Queensborough Red Rich Rocky Rodger Saint Patricks Snowy Suggan Buggan Tambo Thurra Timbarra Lake Tyers Wallagaraugh Wentworth Wingan Wongungarra Wonnangatta Yalmy Yeerung
West Gippsland catchment	Aberfeldy Ada (Baw Baw) Agnes Albert Avon (Wellington) Barkly Caledonia Carey Darby Dolodrook Franklin Gippsland Lakes Lake Coleman Lake Reeve Lake Wellington Lake Glenmaggie Jack (Wellington) Jordan Latrobe Little (Avon) Little Toorongo Loch Macalister Moe Morwell Perry Powlett Tanjil Tarra Tarwin Thomson Thomson Reservoir Tidal Toorongo Turton Tyers Wellington
Melbourne Water catchment	Bass Bunyip Dandenong Don Lang Lang Lerderderg Little (Greater Geelong) Little Bass Little Lang Lang Little Yarra Maribyrnong O'Shannassy Patterson Plenty Tarago The Old Watts Werribee Yarra
Corangamite catchment	Aire Anglesea Barham Barwon Calder Carlisle Lake Connewarre Lake Corangamite Cumberland Curdies Elliott Erskine Ford Geary Gellibrand Grey Johanna Kennet Leigh Little Aire Lake Martin Moorabool Parker St George Sherbrook Woady Yaloak Wye Yarrowee

Great Australian Bight

Glenelg Hopkins catchment	Lake Bolac Lake Burrumbeet Chetwynd Crawford Dundas Eumeralla Fitzroy Glenelg Hopkins Merri Moyne Shaw Stokes Surrey Wando Wannon

Rivers of the Murray–Darling basin

North–East catchment	Big (Mitta Mitta) Buckland Buffalo Bundara Catherine Cobungra Dandongadale Dart Lake Dartmouth Gibbo Lake Hume Kiewa King Mitta Mitta Murray Ovens Rose Victoria
Goulburn Broken catchment	Acheron Big (Goulburn) Black Broken Delatite Lake Eildon Goulburn Goulburn Weir Howqua Jamieson Little (Cathedral Range) Little Rubicon Murray Murrindindi Royston Rubicon Steavenson Taggerty Taponga Torbreck Yea
North–Central catchment	Avoca Campaspe Cairn Curran Reservoir Coliban Lake Eppalock Laanecoorie Reservoir Little Coliban Little Murray Loddon Murray
Mallee catchment	Lindsay Murray

Rivers that drain inland

North–Central catchment	Avon (Grampians) Lake Buloke Richardson
Wimmera catchment	Lake Albacutya Lake Hindmarsh MacKenzie Wimmera

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