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Where does our local water come from?
Dandenong Creek roams for 53 km in Melbourne's southeast. Bubbling from springs high up in the Dandenong Ranges, the waterway travels through forests and grasslands, urban and industrial areas, and billabongs and swamplands before flowing into Port Phillip Bay.
Where does it travel? Where does it end up?
There are over 163,000 hectares of protected and open catchments in Melbourne and 10 water storage reservoirs. Many of the reservoirs are interconnected; this helps to ensure that water can be transferred, increasing the system's reliability.
This is an image of the rainfall, river and catchments in Melbourne.
Who Is Impacted?
The Dandenong Creek primarily impacts the native flora and fauna living within its ecosystem, including threatened fish species like the dwarf galaxias and Yarra pygmy perch, as well as the surrounding communities who utilize the creek for recreation and environmental benefits. If the creek wasn't there all of the above would have a harder time surviving, especially the flora and fauna.
Ocean Current Map
This shows the path taken by ocean currents around the world, rubbish also follows said currents. Rubbish goes from the Port Phillip Bay to the Tasman sea and then enters the Antarctic currents.
What does it look like?
The Dandenong Creek system starts in the Dandenong Ranges in the east of Melbourne the system starts with small local creeks that flow downhill into other creeks and eventually the Dandenong Creek the water quality goes down the closer the creek gets to the ocean as more waste water flows in. The Dandenong creek flows into the Patterson River which then flows into the Port Philip Bay and then the greater Indian, Pacific, and Southern Oceans
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