Thebarton

Thebarton
Thebarton Catholic Church
State :  Australia State : South Australia Founded : 1896
Coordinates : 34 ° 54 ′  S , 138 ° 34 ′  E Coordinates: 34 ° 54 ′  S , 138 ° 34 ′  E Area : 1.2  km²
Residents : 1,431 (2016) Population density : 1193 inhabitants per km²
Time zone : ACST (UTC + 9: 30) Postal code : 5031 LGA : City of West Torrens
Thebarton

Thebarton is a suburb of Adelaide , South Australia . The suburb is bordered by the River Torrens to the north, Port Road and Bonython Park to the east, Kintore Street to the south and South Road to the west . At the last census in 2016, the suburb had 1,431 inhabitants.

overview

Thebarton is named after Theberton Hall in Suffolk , where British Colonel William Light trained, the first general surveyor of the British colony of South Australia. The area of ​​today's Thebarton was called Theberton until about 1840. Before the first European settlement, Thebarton and Hindmarsh was an area of the Kurnai Aborigines , who called it Karraundongga , which means "place of the spears on the River Red Gum", because trees grew on the riverbank that were particularly suitable for making spears. Colonel Light surveyed the town and built Theberton Cottage to the north of that area. The area of ​​Thebarton was further subdivided for house building in February 1839. The construction of the houses took a long time and therefore in 1866 the population of Thebarton was about 450 people.

Adelaide's adjoining suburb of Torrensville is home to buildings bearing the Thebarton name, including Thebarton Oval , Thebarton croquet and bowls club , Thebarton Theater, and Thebarton Executive Training Center.

The suburb of Thebarton is home to a large Greco-Australian population within its walls, making it the largest Greco-Australian population in Australia. In 2001, the Australian Bureau of Statistics in Thebarton and neighboring Torrensville counted 4471 Greek-Australians, 18.7 percent of the total population.

Thebarton is home to the St. George Greek Orthodox Church , the largest Greek Orthodox church in Adelaide, and the ice rink (also known as Snowdome Adelaide ), where the Adelaide Adrenaline ice hockey team plays in the Australian Ice Hockey League . One of the four locations of the University of Adelaide is there and the Adelaide Gaol .

Thebarton is in the local administrative area of the City of West Torrens and in the constituency of the South Australian House of Assembly for the Australian House of Representatives in the Division of Adelaide .

Contaminated groundwater

It is known from the 1950s that groundwater in the Thebarton area is too salty to be used as drinking water.

In July 2019, the Environment Protection Authority (EPA) proposed a ban on groundwater use here and in part of Mile End (also) for watering gardens, growing vegetables and cleaning streets. The trigger is the - very low - content of uranium and chlorinated hydrocarbons .

Tri- and tetrachlorethylene are typical degreasers emitted by dry cleaners and factories and are also responsible for groundwater locks within Adelaide in Edwardstown, Clovelly Park, Allenby Gardens and Glenelg East.

A clay pit was operated in Thebarton for brick production in the 1950s . In a building next to it, on West Thebarton Road, a laboratory of the state-owned AMDEL (Australian Mineral Development Laboratories) worked until 1987 and tested uranium ore samples from the 1950s to 2008. Waste was deposited in the clay pit but removed in the 1980s and 1990s as radioactive waste finally disposed of in Radium Hill , the pit backfilled and covered.

Nevertheless, in 2019, increased uranium and lead concentrations were measured at the site of the former mine and in the surrounding soil . With uranium, lead and arsenic, the groundwater exceeds the limit values ​​for groundwater.

Personalities

• Desmond Charles Moore MSC (1926-2020), Australian religious and Roman Catholic Bishop of Alotau-Sideia in Papua New Guinea

literature

• Geoscience Australia
• South Australian State Gazetteer: Placenames Online
• The Manning Index of South Australian History
• P. Payne: Thebarton Old and New, Adelaide, South Australia: Thebarton City Council. 1996, ISBN 0-646-30157-8 .

Web links

Commons : Thebarton, South Australia  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Australian Bureau of Statistics : Thebarton ( English ) In: 2016 Census QuickStats . June 27, 2017. Retrieved April 8, 2020.
2. ↑ Uranium among contaminants sparking proposed bore water ban in Thebarton abc.net.au, July 4, 2019, accessed February 5, 2020.