Johnstons Creek Johnston's Creek
Johnstons Creek from the footbridge between Federal and Bicentennial Parks.
Etymology	In honour of Lieutenant-Colonel George Johnston [1]
Location
Country	Australia
State	New South Wales
Region	Sydney basin (IBRA), Sydney, Inner West
Council	Inner West, Sydney
Physical characteristics
Source
• location	Petersham
Mouth	Johnstons Bay
• location	Rozelle Bay
• coordinates	-33.88052611035927, 151.17586528757025
Basin features
River system	Port Jackson/Sydney Harbour
Tributaries
• right	Orphan School Creek

Johnstons Creek, formerly Johnston's Creek, is an urban gully, ^[2] located in Sydney, Australia and situated in the Inner West and Sydney local government areas. The creek flows from Petersham, past Annandale, Camperdown, Forest Lodge and Harold Park, before spilling into Rozelle Bay, within Sydney Harbour.

Contents

• Course and features
• Urban structures
• Marine life
• Johnstons Creek Route
• See also
• References
• External links

Course and features

Originally a natural watercourse, Johnston's Creek was converted into a brick and concrete channel in the 1890s in order to improve sanitation in Sydney^{[ citation needed ]}. The creek rises in Petersham and initially marked the eastern boundary of the land granted to Lieutenant-Colonel George Johnston ^[1] in the 1790s, which he named Annandale. The Annandale Estate was subdivided in the latter part of the 19th Century into what is now the suburbs of Stanmore and Annandale. The channel now forms a boundary of Annandale, Forest Lodge, Camperdown and Stanmore.^{[ citation needed ]}

Johnstons Creek has one minor tributary, Orphan School Creek, an urban canal that joins Johnstons Creek at Forest Lodge.^{[ citation needed ]}

Marine life

In September 2009 a bull shark believed to be 1.8 metres (5 ft 11 in) long was sighted in Johnstons Creek. The shark was last seen swimming along the Glebe foreshore in the direction of the Anzac Bridge. ^[7]

Johnstons Creek Route

The Johnstons Creek route is an unbuilt arterial route proposal from mascot and Annandale, which follows Johnstons Creek along part of the alignment. ^[8] The WestConnex plans for the widened Campbell Street bridge over the canal to Alexandria used part of the Johnstons Creek Route corridor. ^[9]

As of 2005, constructed segments included part of Bourke Road (Mascot), between O’Riordan Street and Coward Street (1988) and between Coward Street and Gardeners Road (1999). ^[8]

In 2004 and 2005 residents and groups including EcoTransit stopped an extension to the F6 (which they named the "Johnston's Creek Extension") which would have run from Anzac Bridge, through Newtown to Randwick. The Roads & Traffic Authority had been purchasing properties along the corridor, where a reservation had existed since 1945. Michelle Zeibots launched a campaign and distributed 
100,000 newsletters, though route plans were not public. Mary Jane Gleeson located one email exchange between members of the Roads & Traffic Authority referring to construction. ^{[10] [11]}

Subsequently, most of the Johnstons Creek Route corridor was removed in March 2006, but not all of it. ^{[9] : 13}

The Inner West Bypass (or Inner-West Motorway ^[12] ) proposal roughly followed the route of the "Johnston's Creek Extension Road". ^[13]

See also

• Whites Creek
• Glebe and Wentworth Park railway viaducts

References

External links

• Johnstons Creek Stormwater Channel Exhibition)

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