Georges River, O'Hares Creek, Iluka Creek, Iluka Swamp, Maddens Creek, Dharawal State Recreation Area

Georges River Macarthur

General longwall mining

• longwall mining process - damage, cause and effects
• backstow - mining subsidence - backstow reduces surface damage, our politicians don't legislate for it
• Cataract river - Cataract river during the seventies
• Georges river dieing - Georges river greatly reduced water levels
• Iluka Creek - Iluka Swamp - Iluka Creek, Iluka Swamp, Georges River catchment
• Macarthurs rivers - Bargo, Georges, Cataract rivers - Broughton Pass Dam, Marhnes Hole, Appin
• Mine subsidence - mine subsidence in the Upper Nepean river catchment
• Georges River photographs - photographs of 7 km downstream of Freres Crossing
• Stokes Creek Wedderburn - Stokes Creek, Wedderburn, Georges River, Campbelltown
• Wedderburn - Wedderburns rivers, creeks and properties
• Wedderburn gorge - Wedderburn gorge, Georges River catchment, environmental damage
• Woolwash - The Woolwash junction with O'Hares creek Wedderburn - Minto
• O'Hares - Iluka - Georges River, O'Hares Creek, Dharawal State Recreation Area, Iluka Creek, Iluka Swamp, Maddens Creek.
• O'Hares - Wedderburn - Georges River, O'Hares Creek, Campbelltown, Wedderburn.
• Dharawal State Recreation Area - Georges River, O'Hares Creek, Darkes Forest.

• gr_punchbowl_kentlyn - Punchbowl Creek at the Basin Georges River NSW
• broken promises - longwall mining - deceit, denial and broken promises
• Cost clean coal - Clean coal, is it too costly to consider
• Longwall Mining - Global Climate Change, letter to Kevin Rudd, Prime minister Australia
• The hidden costs of clean coal - The environmental and human disaster of longwall mining - Multimedia from The Center for Public Integrity Washington DC. Video filmed in the mine and the effects above ground.
• BHP Billiton environmental damage - BHP Billiton, Fly river, Ok Tedi river, copper mines, Irian Jaya, Barrow Island, deforestation Indonesia, environmental damage, longwall mining
• BHP Billiton misinformation - BHP Billiton Illawarra Coal - Rio Tinto misinformation and the publics wrong impression of mining
• Politicians and approvals - These politicians approve longwall mining licences which pollutes our atmosphere, damages our rivers, water catchments and your homes
• Mine subsidence - longwall mining and its impact on water resources
• When longwall mining comes to your town - When longwall mining comes to your town, your home is in the hands of the mining company- from the US and applies here in Australia

Location 7 - Dharawal State Recreation Area

Georges River - the Woronora Plateau.

Map Topographic & Orthophoto Map 1:25000 Appin 9029-1S was used.

Location 1. The Basin on Georges River at Kentlyn (banner photograph taken during drought early 2009)
Georges River - The Basin

Location 2. The Cause way at Wedderburn Gorge Wedderburn Gorge

Location 3. The Woolwash, junction of Georges River and O'Hares Creek
Woolwash

Location 4. The water guage upstream of location 3 on O'Hares Creek Wedderburn
O'Hare - Wedderburn

Location 5. The water guage upstream of O'Hares Creek / Stokes Creek junction Wedderburn
Stokes Creek - Wedderburn

Location 6. Iluka Swamp in the Dharawal State Recreation Area
Iluka Swamp

Location 7. River crossing downstream of Iluka Creek on O'Hares Creek
O'Hare - Iluka Creek

O'Hares Creek - Iluka Creek - Maddens Creek - photographed 12 July 09

The route is challenging but worth it. We saw a huge number of animal tracks over the full length including horse tracks, some brave soul had travelled the same route and crossed the O'Hares Creek on horse back.

The monitoring location is downstream of Iluka Swamp and the junction of Iluka Creek and O'Hares Creek. This location gives us the combined flow from all the creeks on the upper catchment above the crossing out as far as Maddens Creek. This is a considerable area of the plateau to drain.

We discovered that water levels in O'Hares Creek were very low which was very disappointing. These levels support our findings further down the creek below the junction of Stokes Creek and O'Hares Creek and prior to The Basin at Kentlyn. We are now in the last month of winter and have had plenty of rain.

One wonders if the loss of water in the Waratah Rivulet over to the north west is caused by lack of water on the plateau.

We have no prior knowledge of the water flow from this area but we will gain that knowledge in the future. Tthe ground was sodden with many small creeks crossing our line of travel.

Ultimately the total amount of water draining from this area is seen at The Basin, Kentlyn, Campbelltown which we have photographed many times this year.

Our findings at The Basin compared with years of river knowledge led us to believe that Georges River is dieing. see - the dieing river

"This is worth saving"