Ginninderra Creek
Ginninderra Creek is a water course that flows across the Ginninderra Plain through the Gungahlin and Belconnen regions in Canberra, Australia.
Straddling the northern border between the ACT and NSW, the catchment of Ginninderra Creek covers approximately 32,000 hectares. Among its key features are Lake Ginninderra, a constructed lake located in the Canberra suburb of Belconnen. From Lake Ginninderra the creek passes over Ginninderra Falls and through Ginninderra Gorge, to its junction with the Murrumbidgee River.
The Ginninderra creek catchment carries approximately a quarter of Canberra's urban runoff into the Murrumbidgee River which is part of the Murray Darling Basin. Therefore there is considerable risk of runoff from urban areas negatively impacting on aquatic ecosystems in the Murrumbidgee River system. To help reduce the impact on the Murrumbidgee River, Lake Ginninderra was constructed in 1974 to act as a sedimentation pond.
John Gale argued that the Ginninderra Falls were so pretty that Canberra should be chosen for the Capital of Australia rather than Dalgety. [1]
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- ^ * Exploring the ACT and Southeast New South Wales, J. Kay McDonald, Kangaroo Press, Sydney, 1985, p38 ISBN 0-86417-049-1
