Sometimes known as Thorrington Creek, this waterway was named as Couling Creek to honour the career of Ken Couling, once CCC Waterways and Wetlands Team Leader during the 1990s and early 2000s.
Couling Creek
About the waterway
Couling Creek arises from a spring behind private property 28 Thorrington Road, added to by another spring just as the creek enters Ernle Clarke Reserve between 24 & 26 Thorrington Road. The creek pools behind safety fencing in the reserve before being piped under the road into the reserve. It travels a short distance in a naturalised channel before disappearing in a culvert beneath an illegal pile of fill of dubious quality that reclaims the rear part of 20 Thorrington Road. Beyond this, the creek travels between the reserve and private property in a natural channel that broadens into a shallow pool that forms the feature of the Thorrington homestead at the end of Ernlea Terrace. The creek then narrows into a much modified rock-lined channel before passing in a pipe under Ernlea Terrace to the river.
Where it joins the river
A view of the waterway
