33-601: Glenbrook Creek is a freshwater tributary of the Nepean River . It is located within the Blue Mountains of New South Wales , Australia . The headwaters of Glenbrook Creek are approximately 5 km south-east of Linden , in the Blue Mountains National Park . The creek follows a mainly south-easterly course for its 17 km length. It starts at an altitude of 300m, and empties into
66-1158: A government land grant. Emu Plains Community Baptist Church began ministering in August 2001. The services were initially held in the Emu Plains Community Centre, until the moved to Melrose Hall in 2005. At the 2021 census , there were 8,126 residents in Emu Plains. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people made up 4.0% of the population. 81.3% of residents were born in Australia. The next most common countries of birth were England 4.5%, New Zealand 1.6%, Ireland 0.6%, Philippines 0.6%, and Scotland 0.5%. The top responses for religious affiliation were No Religion 31.7%, Catholic 26.8% and Anglican 19.2%. The top ancestries were Australian 41.6%, English 40.0%, Irish 13.7%, Scottish 9.9% and German 3.8%. 89.0% of people spoke only English at home. Other languages spoken at home included Greek 0.7%, Arabic 0.4%, Hindi 0.3%, Mandarin 0.3% and Croatian 0.3%. Until 1963, Emu Plains
99-430: A number of landmark buildings: The main commercial centre is Lennox Village (formerly Centro Lennox), named after David Lennox .The shopping centre features Aldi and Woolworths . There is a concrete plant located in town in the industrial area, this plant is owned and operated by Holcim Australia, the plant was formerly owned by PF Concrete and currently services the western suburbs region including Penrith six days
132-551: A week. Emu Plains railway station is situated on the Main Western railway line . It is the last station on the suburban line with Lapstone , the next station to the west, considered part of the Intercity network . While a long distance from Sydney city, there are many express services from Emu Plains to the city. Emu Plains is also serviced by Blue Mountains Transit . Emu Plains can easily be accessed from Penrith via
165-681: A wide pathway running for several kilometres for strolls along the riverbank. The eastern bank is also the home of the Nepean Rowing Club. Wallacia Mandi , a Mandaeans mandi (temple) in Wallacia , is located on the west bank of the Nepean River. Water from the Nepean River is pumped into baptismal pools at the mandi for ritual purification . Aboriginal people used the river regularly, and their fish traps could be seen at Yarramundi before sand and gravel mining redirected
198-577: Is a suburb of Sydney in the state of New South Wales , Australia . It is 58 kilometres (36 mi) west of the Sydney central business district , in the local government area of the City of Penrith and is part of the Greater Western Sydney region. Emu Plains is on the western side of the Nepean River , located at the foot of the Blue Mountains . Prior to European settlement, what
231-620: Is at 86 River Road, Emu Plains. The property was bought by the Lewers in the 1940s, and in 1950 it became their permanent home and studio. Gerald died in 1962, and Margo continued to live and work there until her death in 1978. In 1980 the Lewers' daughters donated the site, buildings, gardens and a substantial collection of art to Penrith City Council. The gallery was opened in August 1981 by the New South Wales Premier, Neville Wran . Every year tens of thousands of visitors inspect
264-897: Is now the suburb of Emu Plains was located on the border of the Western Sydney-based Dharug people and the Southern Highlands-based Gandangara people , whose land extended into the Blue Mountains. The local Dharug people were known as the Mulgoa. They lived a hunter-gatherer lifestyle governed by traditional laws, which had their origins in the Dreamtime . They lived in huts made of bark called 'gunyahs', hunted kangaroos and emus for meat, and gathered yams , berries, and other native plants. The first British colonizers to visit
297-530: Is the westernmost residential suburb in the outskirts of the Greater Western Sydney area, set away from the hustle and bustle of Sydney. As the main gateway to the Blue Mountains, the suburb provides scenic mountainous beauty at its foot. Its attractions include a selection of old colonial-era buildings. Penrith Regional Gallery & The Lewers Bequest is an art gallery established at the former property of artists Gerald and Margo Lewers . It
330-458: The 2021 New South Wales floods , the Nepean River became overflowed, peaking at 10 m (32.81 ft), with Windsor Bridge submerging in its waters, leading to inundated homes and isolated animals in the surrounds. The Australian Mandaean community in the Sydney metropolitan area regularly performs masbuta (baptism) rituals in the Nepean River, typically in and around Wallacia Mandi . Emu Plains, New South Wales Emu Plains
363-763: The Great Western Highway . Access from further east is best obtained by the M4 Western Motorway . If travelling east from the Blue Mountains, access is best obtained by the Great Western Highway. The local government schools are Emu Plains Public School and the Nepean Creative and Performing Arts High School . There is also a Catholic primary school, Our Lady of the Way, and high school, Penola Catholic College. Emu Plains
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#1732790567814396-602: The 1880's the Emu and Prospect Gravel and Road Metal company began removing stones from the Nepean River. They were turned into concrete and road-base. A railway siding, which was to be expanded into a short branch, was first laid in from the Main Western Line at Emu Plains in 1884. Railway operations, which included the line's own locomotives, continued until 1967 when only a siding, shunted by government trains, remained. All railway operations ceased in 1993. Emu Plains has
429-506: The Hawkesbury/Nepean remains an important and popular wild bass fishery. The luscious banks of the Nepean River provide a natural haven for local flora and fauna and a quiet location for local residents to relax. At Emu Plains , the western bank of the river provides a location for outdoor theatre productions on warm summer nights. The eastern bank at Penrith provides barbecue facilities and children's play equipment, as well as
462-692: The Home Office and a close personal friend of Arthur Phillip. It took about three years to realise that the Nepean flowed into the Hawkesbury. Nepean river was also one of the pivotal sites of the Hawkesbury and Nepean Wars , fought between the Kingdom of Great Britain and local aboriginal clans in the late 1700s and early 1800s. During the 1820s, the Nepean district's most famous early settler,
495-407: The Nepean River 40,000 to 50,000 years ago, according to repeated, revised and corroborated radiocarbon and thermoluminescence dating. At first when these results were new they were controversial. More recently in 1987 and 2003 dating of the same sediments strata has revised and corroborated these dates. A great many more artefacts made by people have been found in the region dating back to within
528-400: The Nepean River at 30m, which is a descent of 270m. The lower reach of the creek passes through a valley known as "Glenbrook Gorge". It is the site of two swimming holes, Blue Pool and Jellybean Pool , and there are many bushwalking tracks along its banks. Glenbrook Creek gave its name to Glenbrook Railway Station , which in turn gave its name to Glenbrook village , which the creek flows to
561-437: The Nepean River estimated to have reached 13.4 metres (44 ft) in the river, and 27.47 metres (90.1 ft) AHD . This flood carried away the approaches to the recently built Victoria Bridge . Emu Plains, Castlereagh, and the lower parts of Penrith were all under flood, causing immense loss of property. Many houses were carried into the river by landslides. Many residents were forced to take refuge in public buildings such as
594-492: The Penrith Hospital and the public schools. A major flood such as that of 1867 would cause inundation of over 16,000 dwellings and damage costing approximately A$ 1.4 billion . There have been other notable floods since, particularly that of July 1900 and March 1914. Again there was much flooding of streets and loss of houses and property along the river. 1974 was another significant La Niña flood event. During
627-459: The area surveyed Emu Plains in August 1790 led by Watkin Tench . They named it Emu Island due to the emus they sighted there, and in the mistaken belief that the land was actually an island, which was the result of the occasionally flooded river giving the appearance of it being an island. When Governor Lachlan Macquarie toured the area on the 15th of April 1814, he had realized the misconception and
660-589: The current concrete weir was built at the beginning of the Nepean Gorge, an anticendant entrenched meander caused by the slow uplift during the Blue Mountains orogeny carved down through the fifty-million-year-old Hawkesbury sandstone . In the 1950s, the building of the Warragamba Dam across the steep gorge of the Warragamba River , the Nepean's major tributary, intercepted the flow of
693-423: The effective western and south-western boundary of the metropolitan region of Sydney for its entire length, there are very few fixed crossings of the Nepean River. Going upstream, these comprise: The first flood on record - apparently a small occurrence - was in 1795. Others followed in 1799, March & October 1806 and 1809. In 1810, after a series of major floods on the Hawkesbury, Governor Macquarie proclaimed
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#1732790567814726-629: The gallery's exhibitions and use the gardens and café. Emu Plains has a number of heritage-listed sites, including: St Paul's Church School opened in 1848, and the church building consecrated in 1872. The church is now part of the Emu Plains Anglican Church. Our Lady of the Way is a part of the Catholic Diocese of Parramatta in Western Sydney. The church and school buildings were built in about 1860 on
759-402: The great bulk of its waters and diverted them to meet the needs of the growing Sydney metropolitan area, reducing the river to a shadow of its former self. These dams and weirs have had a potent effect, blocking migratory native fish like Australian bass (also locally commonly known as perch) from much of their former habitat, and reducing floods and freshets needed for spawning. Nevertheless,
792-402: The landowner and physician Sir John Jamison (1776–1844), erected a Georgian mansion, called Regentville House, on the model estate which he had established on a rise overlooking the river, not far from the present-day city of Penrith . Jamison is considered one of early Australia's most important political and agricultural pioneers. A fire devastated the house in the 1860s. Despite forming
825-628: The last 5,000 years. Karskens et al. have made an attempt to recover, integrate and map archaeological data of the area from both published and unpublished reports. When the British colony was established at Sydney in 1788, the Governor, Captain Arthur Phillip, charted the coast 50 km north to the mouth of the Hawkesbury and around 32 km upstream till they were stopped by a waterfall, most likely at Hawkesbury Heights. Phillip named
858-467: The metropolitan region of Sydney. The headwaters of the Nepean River rise near Robertson , about 100 kilometres (62 mi) south of Sydney and about 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) from the Tasman Sea . The river flows north in an unpopulated water catchment area into Nepean Reservoir , which supplies potable water for Sydney. North of the dam, the river forms the western edge of Sydney, flowing past
891-562: The river after Lord Hawkesbury, later titled Charles Jenkinson, 1st Earl of Liverpool , President of the Privy Council Standing Committee on Trade. Meanwhile, Lieutenant Watkin Tench set off to walk inland, west of Sydney. About 60 kilometres (37 mi) inland, at the foot of the Blue Mountains , he discovered a large river which he named Nepean after Evan Nepean , the Under Secretary of State at
924-580: The river has been suffering significant stress. There are eleven weirs located on the Nepean River that significantly regulate its natural flow. The river has been segmented into a series of weir lakes rather than a freely flowing river and is also impacted by dams in the Upper Nepean catchment. The Wallacia Weir was initially built as a wooden weir for the John Blaxland flour mill at Grove Farm. The first Australian fishsteps were built when
957-675: The river. Charles Darwin also wrote of people at Emu Ford , commenting on their skill with spears, while Watkin Tench of the Royal Marines also noted their use of spears, lines and nets to capture fish. The people of the Nepean region also regularly traded with people of the western plains via a route that Bell followed when he laid down an alternate route over the mountains, now called Bells Line of Road . Near Penrith, since 1971 numerous Aboriginal stone tools were found in Cranebrook Terraces gravel sediments deposited by
990-470: The south of. 33°46′52″S 150°38′28″E / 33.78104°S 150.64104°E / -33.78104; 150.64104 Nepean River The Nepean River ( Darug : Yandhai ), is a major perennial river , located in the south-west and west of Sydney , New South Wales , Australia. The Nepean River, and, continuing by its downstream name, the Hawkesbury River , almost encircles
1023-670: The town of Camden and the city of Penrith , south of which flowing through the Nepean Gorge . Near Wallacia it is joined by the dammed Warragamba River ; and north of Penrith, near Yarramundi , at its confluence with the Grose River , the Nepean becomes the Hawkesbury River. The river supplies water to Sydney's five million people as well as supplying agricultural production. This, combined with increased pressures from land use change for urban development, means
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1056-638: The ‘Macquarie Towns’ of Windsor , Richmond, Wilberforce , Castlereagh , and Pitt Town in an attempt to ensure that development was restricted to higher ground, free of flooding. The devastation caused by flooding in February 1817 prompted Governor Macquarie to issue a notice exhorting settlers, in the strongest possible terms, to build their residences above the established flood levels. More flooding occurred in 1857 and twice in 1860, both February and May. The most devastating flood occurred in June 1867 with
1089-420: Was the first to use the name Emu Plains. William Cox started building a road over the Blue Mountains from Emu Plains on 18 July 1814. A government farm using convict labor was established in 1813 with 1,326 convicts growing local agriculture. It closed in 1833. The land was sold to establish the village of Emu Plains. Emu Ferry Post Office opened on 1 April 1863 and was renamed Emu Plains in 1882. In
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