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Stony Creek (Melbourne) - Wikipedia

Coordinates: 37°47′45″S 144°50′36″E / 37.79583°S 144.84333°E

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Stony Creek is located in the western suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It runs through the suburbs of St Albans, Albion, Sunshine, Braybrook, Tottenham, Brooklyn, Kingsville and Yarraville.

As of 2011^[update] in its upper reaches Stony Creek's environmental state is very poor; it is best characterised as a concrete stormwater drain for these sections of its course. Through most of Sunshine it has been directed underground coming out at Matthews Hill Reserve. It then becomes a pleasantly treelined creek before passing through heavily industrialised areas.

Stony Creek joins the Yarra River under the Westgate Bridge at the Stony Creek Backwash where it is fringed with mangroves.

The Friends of Stony Creek is a group that works to restore native vegetation and protect the area.^[1]^[2]

In April 2018, the Upper Stony Creek Transformation, a project to return a 1.2 km section of Stony Creek in Sunshine North to a natural, revegetated creek with vibrant community space and walking paths, commenced. This project is scheduled to be completed in September 2019.^[3]

In July 2019 the Upper Stony Creek Transformation Project came to a standstill after project costs blew out following the discovery of industrial contamination at the site.^[4]

In September 2019, the Stony Creek's water has turned blood red which authorities believed to be caused by a dye. The Environmental Protection Agency is still investigating the source of the discolouration.^[5]

References

^ Friends of Stony Creek, retrieved 30 November 2011
^ Friends of Stony Creek, retrieved 30 November 2011
^ "Upper Stony Creek Transformation to Begin". Brimbank Buzz. City of Brimbank. 10 April 2018. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
^ "Brimbank calls for environmental justice for the West". Brimbank Buzz. City of Brimbank. 19 July 2019. Retrieved 22 July 2019.
^ "Melbourne waterway runs blood red, EPA works to establish contaminant".

37°47′45″S 144°50′36″E / 37.79583°S 144.84333°E / -37.79583; 144.84333

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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