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Site 1 - Parramatta Park (htm) or (pdf
to print)
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Site Issues
o Weeds
o Human impact,
o Creek restoration at Domain Creek,
o Gross pollution trap/ wetlands at golf course
Site Activities
o Catchment walk,
o Water quality testing,
o Habitat assessment,
o Water bugs in Domain Creek,
o Transects, quadrats,
o Mapping
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Site Information
§ Parramatta River, Domain
Creek, Parramatta
§ UBD Map 211 A2
§ Visitor Centre, toilets
§ Revegetation areas and
gross pollution trap
§ Weed problems
§ Historical site
§ Open space ,mown grass
parkland
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Site 2 – Lake Parramatta (htm)
or (pdf
to print)
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Site Issues
o Weeds and introduced animal species
o Human impact
Site Activities
o Catchment walk,
o Water quality testing,
o Habitat assessment,
o Transects, quadrats
o Mapping
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Site Information
§ Lake Parramatta, North
Parramatta
§ Kiosk, toilets, shelters
§ Problems with domestic
ducks interbreeding with native species
§ Weed invasion
§ Swimmable by 2005 vision
§ Historical site
§ Rock outcrops
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Site 3 - Loyalty Road Flood
Basin (htm) or (pdf
to print)
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Site Issues
o Weeds,
o Human impact
o Flooding
o Endangered ecological communities
Site Activities
o Water quality monitoring,
o Habitat assessment,
o Water bugs
o Transects, quadrats
o Mapping
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Site Information
§ Darling Mills Creek,
North Rocks
§ UBD Map 191 D1
§ Site suitable for senior
students only
§ Flood prevention
§ Weed invasion of basin
§ Coachwood and Blue Gum
community (endangered ecological communities)
§ Rock outcrops
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Site 4 - McCoy Park Wetlands (htm)
or (pdf
to print)
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Site Issues
o Weeds,
o Human impact – industrial pollution
o Flooding
o Natural regeneration and plant succession
Site Activities
o Water quality monitoring,
o Habitat assessment,
o Water bugs
o Transects, quadrats
o Mapping
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Site Information
§ Blacktown Creek, Toongabbie
§ UBD Map 189 Q3
§ Natural regeneration
of wetland plants following blockage of low flow drain Þ succession
§ Industrial area, oil
contamination of Tucks Rd drain
§ Flood containment in
sporting fields
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Site 5 - Greystanes Creek, Toongabbie
(htm) or (pdf
to print)
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Site Issues
o Human impact – industrial pollution
o Flooding
o Regeneration
Site Activities
o Catchment walk,
o Water quality monitoring,
o Habitat assessment,
o Mapping
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Site Information
§ Bowling Club (12 Station
Rd, Toongabbie)
§ UBD Map 189 P6
§ Creek restoration –
weed removal, realignment, native plantings
§ Bank construction to
reduce erosion
§ Compare with downstream
concrete channel
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Site 6 - John Silverthorne Park
(htm) or (pdf
to print)
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Site Issues
o Weeds,
o Human impact – industrial pollution
o Flooding
o Regeneration
o Changes regeneration at site over time
Site Activities
o Catchment walk,
o Water quality monitoring,
o Habitat assessment,
o Water bugs
o Endangered ecological communities
o Transects, quadrats
o Mapping
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Site Information
§ Greystanes Creek, ,
Oklahoma Ave, Girraween (8)
§ UBD Map 189 H12
§ Stop mowing Þ
regeneration of native grasses + some replanting work (measure
growth rates/ tree heights cf old aerial photos to see differences)
§ Coastal riverflat forest
§ Heavy clay soils (cracks)
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Site 7 - Lancelot St Wetlands (htm)
or (pdf
to print)
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Site Issues
o Regeneration
o Increased biodiversity
o Constructed wetland and gross pollution trap
Site Activities
o Catchment walk,
o Water quality monitoring,
o Habitat assessment,
o Transects, quadrats
o Mapping
o Flooding
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Site Information
§ Lancelot St, Prospect
§ UBD Map 188 P9
§ Toilets available, but
locked during the week
§ Constructed wetlands
§ Bird life +++
§ Ducks impacting on native
grasses
§ Measure turbidity changes
through wetlands
§ Used to be a mown flood
basin
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Site 8 – Central Gardens (htm) or
(pdf
to print)
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Site Issues
o Sewer mining
o Regeneration
o Changes regeneration at site over time
Site Activities
o Catchment walk,
o Water quality monitoring,
o Habitat assessment,
o Endangered ecological communities
o Transects, quadrats
o Mapping
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Site Information
§ Central Gardens, Merrylands
Rd, Merrylands West
§ UBD Map 210 C10
§ Toilets, kiosk, picnic
area
§ Remnant Cumberland Plain
Woodland vegetation – regenerating after stop mowing
§ Plan for sewer mining
§ Toxic algal blooms and
ducks a problem,
§ Bird spotting
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Site 9 - Blacktown Creek (htm) or (pdf
to print)
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Site Issues
o Flooding
o Regeneration
o Changes regeneration at site over time
Site Activities
o Weeds,
o Catchment walk,
o Water quality monitoring,
o Habitat assessment,
o Water bugs
o Endangered ecological communities
o Transects, quadrats
o Mapping
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Site Information
§ Norman Street, Prospect
(11)
§ UBD Map 188 N13
§ Access from Desley Cres
§ Best Cumberland Plain
Woodland vegetation in UPRC
§ Half of site to be developed
resulting in loss of vegetation community
§ Top of Blacktown Creek
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Site 10 – Virtual Field Trip
Ganges River, India (htm) or (pdf
to print)
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§ Varanasi oldest ‘living
city’ in the world - population 1.5 Million people
§ Ganges Basin population
400 million people
§ Important cultural and
religious site
§ Water quality threatened
by sewage pollution, sedimentation, erosion, glacier melt
and global warming, dumping of solid waste, washing clothes,
buffalo
§ Swatcha Ganga (Clean
Ganges) Campaign
§ Refer www.ozgreen.org.au
and www.cleanganga.com (htm) or (pdf
to print)
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Additional Field Trips
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§ Prospect Reservoir water
treatment plant has student tours available
§ Quakers Hill STP has
student tour available
§ Toongabbie Creek headwaters
(cnr Windsor Rd and Seven Hills Rd)
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