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	Merri Creek - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Merri Creek is a waterway in Melbourne, Victoria.
		Malcom Creek, Aitken Creek, and Edgars Creek are tributaries of the Merri Creek.
		In the early history of Melbourne, numerous quarries were established along the creek to extract bluestone for the construction of many of the city's buildings.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Merri_Creek (417 words)

	Merri Creek -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Merri Creek is a waterway in (The capital of Victoria state and 2nd largest Australian city; a financial and commercial center) Melbourne, (A waterfall in the Zambezi River on the border between Zimbabwe and Zambia; diminishes seasonally) Victoria.
		In the early history of (The capital of Victoria state and 2nd largest Australian city; a financial and commercial center) Melbourne, numerous quarries were established along the creek to extract (Bluish-gray sandstone used for paving and building) bluestone for the construction of many of the city's buildings.
		Each year, at the ((Roman mythology) goddess of agriculture; counterpart of Greek Demeter) CERES environment park, on the bank of the creek, the return of the Kingfisher is celebrated in a community festival.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/me/merri_creek.htm (342 words)

	Launch of Waterwatch Australia's National Snapshot '96
		Merri Creek, with assistance from Monash University, has produced a "Strategy for Restoration of the In-stream Environment of the Waterways of the Merri Catchment" which it will implement under the banner of YarraCare and with support from relevant agencies and Councils.
		Merri Creek is also coordinating a schools-based water quality monitoring program across three northern tributaries of the Yarra; the Moonee Ponds, Merri and Darebin Creeks.
		The work of the Merri Creek Management Committee is a model we can promote nationally through Waterwatch and Rivercare as a way for the Australian community to reverse the unfortunate trend we are seeing in the declining 'health' of our rivers and streams.
	www.deh.gov.au /minister/env/96/mr23oct_waterwatch.html (1208 words)

	Merri Creek - TheBestLinks.com - Apiaceae, Platypus, Sorrel, TheBestLinks.com:Find or fix a stub, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The creek flows through the suburbs of Craigieburn, Somerton, Campbellfield, Fawkner, Coburg North, Coburg, Brunswick, Fitzroy North, Clifton Hill and Fairfield.
		Merri Creek is lined with numerous walking walking paths and bicycle trails.
		The CERES environment park is accessible from the Merri Creek trail.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Merri_Creek.html (260 words)

	Merri Creek Management Committee's Statement of Purposes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The primary purpose of the Incorporated Association is to ensure the preservation, restoration, environmental protection and ecologically sensitive development and maintenance of the Merri Creek and adjoining catchment areas, with a long term aim of securing a major regional park ("the Merri Creek Parklands") with significant recreation and conservation value.
		To continue to develop the Merri Creek parklands as a linear park with an emphasis on consolidation and expansion of public open space, flora and fauna reserves and public ownership of natural assets and limiting inappropriate intrusions into, and uses of, the Merri Creek parklands.
		To establish and regenerate indigenous vegetation and to restore the landscape of the Merri Creek and adjoining lands.
	www.mcmc.org.au /purposes.html (388 words)

	Capital City Bike Trail - Melbourne
		The traditional landowners of the area along the Yarra River and Merri Creek were the Wurundjeri tribe, one of the five tribes belonging to the Woiworung clan within the Kulin nation that extended across the Port Phillip region.
		Until recently, the Merri Creek and its environs was neglected, and the stream was mainly used as a drain and for extracting bluestone and its rich volcanic soil, including that used for the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) pitch.
		Friends of the Merri Creek is a community group which works to preserve and restore the Merri Creek and its environs and tributaries.
	www.ripefruit.com /melbourne/capitalbiketrail.htm (971 words)

	Merri Creek Management Committee
		Merri Creek Management Committee Incorporated is an integrated environmental management agency formed in 1989 to achieve the shared vision for the Creek of the stakeholders in the Merri Creek Catchment.
		The primary purpose of the Merri Creek Management Committee (MCMC) is to ensure the preservation of natural and cultural heritage, and the ecologically sensitive restoration, development and maintenance of the Merri Creek and tributaries, their corridors and associated ecological communities.
		Merri Creek, Galada Tamboore, (Wurundjeri language for Stream Waterhole) Thomastown and Campbellfield.
	www.mcmc.org.au /mcmc.html (302 words)

	City of Whittlesea - Melbourne, Australia
		Friends of Darebin Creek is a community group formed to assist restoration of the Darebin Creek environment from its source to confluence with the Yarra.
		Merri Creek Management Committee is an incorporated management agency, which works to ensure the preservation, restoration, environmental protection and ecologically sensitive development and maintenance of the Merri Creek and its surrounds.
		A subgroup of Friends of Merri Creek, this group is a collection of people interested in and actively conserving and revegetating the grasslands in Craigieburn and surrounds.
	www.whittlesea.vic.gov.au /content/content.asp?cid=440&tid=440&tpid=440&sid=&spid=&cnid=1656 (630 words)

	Merri Cohousing - Site possibilities
		Merri Cohousing and EcoVillage Inc. is a nonprofit organisation set up to facilitate the development of cohousing in the inner northern suburbs of Melbourne, on behalf of its members.
		The Merri Cohousing group is currently focussing its intentions on a site in East Brunwick beside CERES and the Merri Creek.
		On the south side is Merri Parade and Merri Creek and the railway bridge and foot bridge to Rushall Ave.
	members.optusnet.com.au /~cohousing/merri/sites (694 words)

	Merri Creek bridge 'trap' blamed for death - National - www.theage.com.au
		Peter Hosri at the bridge on the Merri Creek where his mother Theresa was swept away on Friday.
		Peter Hosri, of Reservoir, has started a petition to have the bridge, through the Merri Creek Park, closed until it is made safe.
		Standing on the sodden planks, with the rushing waters of the swollen Merri Creek just centimetres below, he showed how the creek, flanked by clumps of reeds, narrowed midstream to a "tunnel of water" less than a metre wide.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2004/11/07/1099781245281.html?from=storylhs (637 words)

	Natural Heritage Tour (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Looking down on the Merri Creek from the footbridge, the form of the creek is visible - a smooth-flowing section, or "run"; then a shallow, rocky section, or "riffle"; then another run.
		The water in the Merri Creek is generally less muddy than the water in the Yarra River.
		Another contrast between the two waterways is the very rocky nature of the Merri Creek, compared to the relatively rock-free Yarra (with the exception of Dights Falls).
	www.yarracity.vic.gov.au /environment/parks/tour.asp (2750 words)

	Coburg North, Victoria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Newlands section was favoured by frontages to the Merri Creek and to its tributary, Edgars Creek.
		The farms were also a source of pollution of the recreational lake reserve on the Merri Creek, which was closed to swimming in 1932 when a child died from an infected cut.
		West of the Merri Creek, Coburg North participated in the spread of residential housing between the 1920s and the second world war.
	www.arts.monash.edu.au /ncas/multimedia/gazetteer/list/coburgnorth.html (432 words)

	Merri Cohousing - HOME
		The Annual General Meeting of Merri Cohousing took place on Sunday 28th November 2004 at 11am, and was followed by a picnic lunch.
		Merri Cohousing members came up with this vision through a facilitated process up to 24 May 2000.
		Merri Cohousing: PO Box 355M, Clifton Hill, Vic 3068.
	members.optusnet.com.au /~cohousing/merri/HOME.html (362 words)

	Environment Victoria - Your River
		Birches Creek is a tributary of the Loddon River in the Upper Loddon system.
		Merri Creek Management Committee Incorporated is an integrated environmental management agency form...
		Find out about the rivers, lakes, and creeks of Victoria and what they mean to the people who care about them.
	www.envict.org.au /inform.php?menu=7&item=221 (300 words)

	Merri Creek Trail/Coburg Lake/Moonee Ponds Trail
		Merri Creek Trail to Coburg Lake to Moonee Ponds Trail
		Onward ho, and past what seems to be some large (possibly community) vege gardens, and many of the locals having their fun by the creek: fishing, dog walking, sun basking....
		On the other side is a sign to Moonee Ponds Creek path, but continue on the Merri Creek Trail towards Coburg Lake.
	www.earthsci.unimelb.edu.au /~awatkins/WWW/merriburg.html (1044 words)

	FishVictoria.com - Fishy Tales
		As a youngster we used to fish in the Edgars Creek in North Coburg and the Merri Creek behind the old Pentridge wall for redfin.
		Other places I fished were near Melbourne such as the Deep Creek, Jackson and Emu Creek around Oakland Junction, Darraweit Guim, Wildwood and Bulla (creek crossing on the Bulla-Diggers Rest Road.) I caught roach on dry fly in the Yarra at Eltham.
		Places that would suit a learner would be Watchbed Creek at one end of Rocky Valley dam and the creek that feeds in to the lake at the other end below the ski runs.
	www.fishvictoria.com /pyoursay/tales/0304116bob.php (686 words)

	SMH - Travel
		At 9.30am, at the Ramsden Street Reserve in Clifton Hill, we stepped out along the banks of the Merri Creek and soon came across the first of the trail's distinctive markers: a sign of concentric circles of cyclists and running dogs.
		A couple of kilometres further on, we passed under Heidelberg Road, followed the track along The Parade, and at Rushall Station farewelled the Merri Creek.
		Locals swear that when the Tullamarine Freeway was built in the early '70s, the Country Roads Board promised the people of Flemington that it would provide a pedestrian overpass so they could continue to have access to Royal Park without having to cross Flemington Road.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/07/18/1058035190599.html (1198 words)

	THE OPENING OF CRAIGIEBURN BYPASS STAGE 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Impacts on Merri Creek are minimised, as the new road will cross the creek only once.
		The Friends of Merri Creek, a local resident action group, has been highly critical of the Craigieburn bypass and its impact on the environmental values of the Merri Creek Valley.
		The Friends of Merri Creek may protest at the Open Day, or otherwise seek to gain publicity for their cause.
	www.ministers.dotars.gov.au /jl/speeches/2004/LS06_2004.htm (1931 words)

	Melbourne Water : Rivers and Creeks : Rainfall and River Level Data : Rainfall and River Level Data
		Melbourne Water manages a relatively small area of rivers and creeks to the west of Melbourne, including the lower sections of the Maribyrnong River and several small coastal waterways west of the river.
		This catchment has an area of 855 square kilometres, with some 485 kilometres of rivers and creeks that originally drained to a large coastal wetland, the Carrum Carrum Swamp.
		Approximately 70% of the catchment is rural land, 20% is Crown land and five per cent is urban.
	www.melbournewater.com.au /system/mainFrameset.asp?path=/water_cycle/waterways/rainfall_and_river_level_data/rainfall_and_river_level_data.asp (555 words)

	Stateline Victoria
		NICK JOHNSTON: Rawson and his team believe the tunnel was built by the Americans during the war to store arms and protect Melbourne, in the event of a Japanese invasion.
		As a five-year-old he was walking along the Merri Creek with his father when he saw a guard standing by a door on the nearby bank.
		It just looked like a ordinary vertical boarded shed door, painted of fairly bright apple green and there was a man standing in front of it in civilian clothes, suit, collar and tie, legs spread, hands clasped in front of him, motionless.
	www.abc.net.au /stateline/vic/content/2002/s742640.htm (749 words)

	A Hundred Million Miles
		Saturday was hot so we took Goldie and Billy to the Merri Creek, a shady watercourse that is a tributary of the Yarra River.
		We took them to Merri Creek - where there are wide open fields near Fawkner - and let Goldie go, she was off out of sight immediately, flushing rabbits out and chasing them crazily all over the place.
		It was a hot day and the dogs enjoyed getting down into the creek and lying in the rapids after their exertions.
	ahundredmillionmiles.blogspot.com /2004_03_01_ahundredmillionmiles_archive.html (726 words)

	Stop the Merri Creek Freeway
		The Victorian Government is proposing a 17km freeway across the Merri Creek between Craigieburn and the Western Ring Road.
		The Merri Creek runs for approximately 70 kms, beginning near Wallan, a town on Melbourne's northern outskirts, and joining the Yarra River at Dight's fall, Collingwood.
		Friends of Merri Creek are a community group that has actively worked since 1988 to restore and protect the Merri Creek, its environs and tributaries.
	www.onlymelbourne.com.au /fomc (314 words)

	Northcote Tunnel at Merri Creek, Melbourne, Victoria, used by the military during WW2
		A team in Melbourne led by Mark Rawson is excavating a tunnel at Northcote in Merri Creek which was used by the military during WW2.
		During WW2 a sentry was posted on the Merri Creek entrance to the tunnel.
		It has been reported that there was apparently a boat moored near Swanston Street on the Yarra River during WW2, and in the event of an air raid, the occupants of the War Room at Victoria Barracks would be whisked away up the Yarra to a large bunker at Dights Falls at Abbotsford.
	www.ozatwar.com /bunkers/northcotetunnel.htm (295 words)

	Museum Victoria [ed-online] Hidden Histories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		N: I was born in Orbost in 1951.
		Water had to be carried from rivers, swamps and creeks and boiled in old copper tanks.
		We blocked the holes with damp clay from beside the dams and creeks.
	www.museum.vic.gov.au /hidden_histories/histories/norman.htm (1057 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Along Edgar’s Creek, only about one of the four kilometres between Childs Rd and the Ring Road has a shared footway, however a lot of new trees are pushing skywards.
		The Merri Creek freeway will be a disaster for the Merri Creek and the surrounding environment.
		The frogs aim was to silently protest, on behalf of the creek, grasslands, plants and animals, the irreversable environmental damage the Minister's Merri Creek Freeway would cause.
	home.vicnet.net.au /~fomc/Newsletters/Newsletter_Aug02-Oct02.doc (3104 words)

	CERES - Wisdom of the Elders Along Merri Creek -Wurundjeri
		It includes bushfood and medicine in the Weeroona garden (all indigenous plants of the Merri Creek valley) and journeys across CERES.
		Two hundred years ago the Merri Creek was the focus for Wurundjeri camps (water supply, food collecting etc.).
		The work done by CERES, Merri Creek Management Committee and other local people has revegetated the creek renewing it as a focus for people today.
	www.ceres.org.au /education/wurundjeri.html (354 words)

	MERRI CREEK - BOYHOOD TREASURE TROVE - PearlSoup.com
		There was dead cats to find and stones to throw into the creek that wound its torturous path to the sea.
		Lids are much better fun as they really can destroy anything in their murderous flight path and I suppose in reflection that it was dangerous, but we were indestructible as we were actually Supermen dressed in boys clothing and our trusty, rusty bikes became our steeds of fun.
		After a half day frolicking in the double pleasures of tip and creek, I would try and sneak into our home and get to the tap before my father smelt my telltale smell.
	www.pearlsoup.com /index.cfm?fuseaction=pearls.view&pearlID=6693 (446 words)

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