Whites Creek (Annandale)

White's Creek was named after John White, the Surgeon to the first fleet, which arrived to establish the British Colony of NSW in 1788. White received a land grant, which he named Hamond Hill Farm, to the south of Parramatta Road, where White's Creek has its source.^[1]^[2]

Sanitation was poor in the first 100 years of the new colony, and the waterways were contaminated. The waterway was concreted and became a White's Creek Channel between 1898 and 1935, to cope with the runnoff from the increasing amount of impermeal surfaces that. The Whites Creek storm drain as it is now, is located in Annandale, New South Wales, Australia. It flows in a northerly direction into Rozelle Bay which is a bay of Sydney Harbour. ^[3]

In 1898, an Aqueduct was built to carry the sewerage over Whites Creek. This was the first use of the Monier system of reinforced concrete in Australia.^[4]

Wetlands were constructed adjacent to the White's Creek Channel in 2002, to filter out excess nutrients and improve the quality of water flowing into the Harbour.^[5]

Whites Creek at Piper Street, Annandale
Whites Creek near the corner of Brennan Street and Railway Parade, Annandale

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Waterways of the Sydney Metropolitan catchment, New South Wales, Australia

Major inlets and harbours	Botany Bay Broken Bay Middle Harbour Port Jackson Port Hacking

Minor bays and coves	Akuna Balls Head Bantry Berrys Blackwattle Burraneer Canada Careening Cove Cockle Dolans Double Elizabeth Gwawley Gymea Hen and Chicken Homebush Iron Cove Lavender Mosman Neutral Oatley Rose Rozelle Rushcutters Towlers Watsons Weeney White Woolooware

Lagoons	Dee Why Curl Curl Manly Narrabeen

Rivers	Cooks Duck Georges Hacking Hawkesbury Lane Cove Nepean Parramatta Pittwater Woronora

Creeks	A'Becketts Angus Archer Badgerys Bardwell Bare Bellamy Farm Bellbird Bells Berowra Bidjigal Bilgola Blacktown Blaxland Blue Gum Boggywell Bonds Breakfast Brennans Brickmakers Bunbury Curran Bungarribee Burdekin Byrnes Cabramatta Caddies Cahill Camp Careel Carroll Charity Claremont Clear Paddock Creek Coal and Candle Coopers Cosgrove Cowan Coxs (Belfield) Cup and Saucer Darling Mills Deadmans Devlin Duck Eastern Erskine Eskdale Excelsior Finlaysons First Ponds Forbes Frenchs Glenbrook Gore Grantham Greystanes Haslams Hunts Iron Cove Johnstons Kemps Lalor Little Lowes Marsden McCarrs McKenzies McMahon's Maxwells Middle Harbour Mill Minchinbury O'Hares Orphan School Orphan School (Fairfield) Pendle Hill Powells Prospect Punchbowl Quakers Reedy Rileys Ropes Saleyards Salt Pan Sawmill Scout Second Ponds Smalls Smiths South Still Stoney Subiaco Tarban Terrys Thompsons Toongabbie Two Vineyard Werrington Whites Williams Wolli

Canals and streams	Alexandra Canal Busby's Bore Hawthorne Canal Tank Stream

Reservoirs	Balmain Reservoir (disused) Lake Burragorang Manly Dam Reserve Lake Parramatta Prospect Reservoir Upper Nepean Scheme

Adjoining rivers and bays	Akuna Brisbane Water Burke Cataract Colo Cordeaux Coxs Grose Hollanders Jenolan Jooriland Kedumba Kowmung Macdonald Mooney Mooney Mulwaree Nattai Tarlo Warragamba Wollondilly

Coordinates: 38°49′S 145°55′E / 38.817°S 145.917°E / -38.817; 145.917

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Whites Creek (Annandale)

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