Brockman River (Avon River)

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Brockman River
Data
location Western Australia , Australia
River system Swan River
Drain over Avon River  → Swan River  → Indian Ocean
source north of the Bindoon Hills
31 ° 15 ′ 18 ″  S , 116 ° 5 ′ 16 ″  E
Source height 159  m
muzzle Avon River north of Walyunga National Park Coordinates: 31 ° 41 ′ 1 ″  S , 116 ° 7 ′ 6 ″  E 31 ° 41 ′ 1 ″  S , 116 ° 7 ′ 6 ″  E
Mouth height 55  m
Height difference 104 m
Bottom slope 1.4 ‰
length 72.9 km
Catchment area 1520 km²
Left tributaries Longbridge Gully, Wootra Brook, Spice Brook
Right tributaries Marbling Brook, Marda Brook
Reservoirs flowed through Lake Needoonga , Lake Chittering
Small towns Bindoon

The Brockman River is a river in the southwest of the Australian state of Western Australia .

geography

The river has its source north of the Bindoon Hills in the Wheatbelt region and flows south. It passes under the Great Northern Highway at the exit for Bindoon and Moora and follows the highway south. It flows through the town of Bindoon, as well as Lake Needoonga and Lake Chittering . Then it crosses under the highway again to the east, flows past the small town of Chittering and finally flows into the Avon River north of the Walyunga National Park .

The Brockman River has the largest catchment area in the lower reaches of the Avon River and the upper reaches of the Swan River . The natural environment of the river has been destroyed by deforestation of the original vegetation, which has led to erosion and salinization .

Tributaries with mouth heights

  • Longbridge Gully - 155 m
  • Wootra Brook - 151 m
  • Spice Brook - 130 m
  • Marbling Brook - 92 m
  • Marda Brook - 66 m

history

The first European to discover the river was surveyor Francis Thomas Gregory , who named the river in 1853 after William Locke Brockman , a settler in the area with large land holdings and a delegate of the Western Australia Legislative Council .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Map of Brockman River, WA . Bonzle.com
  2. ^ Natural Resources Management Plan for the Brockman River . Waters and Rivers Commission of Western Australia ( Memento of the original from March 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 2.1 MB)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.water.wa.gov.au
  3. ^ History of River Names - B - Brockman River . Landgate.wa.gov.au ( Memento from January 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive )