Bulimba Creek

Bulimba
Creek
Bulimba Creek at Mansfield, 2014
Name origin: Aboriginal: Boolimbah meaning a place of the magpie lark
Country	Australia
State	Queensland
Region	South East Queenseland
Part of	Brisbane River
City	Brisbane
Primary source	Mount Gravatt via Bulimba Creek West
- location	Kuraby
- coordinates	27°32′48″S 153°4′20″E / 27.54667°S 153.07222°E / -27.54667; 153.07222
Secondary source	Bulimba Creek East
- location	Runcorn
- coordinates	27°36′30″S 153°3′50″E / 27.60833°S 153.06389°E / -27.60833; 153.06389
Source confluence	East and West branches
- location	Eight Mile Plains
- coordinates	27°34′23″S 153°4′37″E / 27.57306°S 153.07694°E / -27.57306; 153.07694
Mouth	confluence with the Brisbane River
- location	East Brisbane
- elevation	0 m (0 ft)
- coordinates	27°25′46″S 153°7′46″E / 27.42944°S 153.12944°E / -27.42944; 153.12944Coordinates: 27°25′46″S 153°7′46″E / 27.42944°S 153.12944°E / -27.42944; 153.12944
Basin	122 km2 (47 sq mi)
Location of the Bulimba Creek mouth in Queensland

Bulimba Creek, originally known as Doboy Creek, ia a perennial stream that is a tributary of the Brisbane River, located in suburban Brisbane in the South East region of Queensland, Australia.

The Bulimba Creek catchment has it sources in the low plateaus and marshy parts of the suburbs of Sunnybank and Runcorn (west catchment) and Kuraby (east catchment) in the south of Brisbane. It then flows in a northerly direction through the suburbs of Mansfield, Mackenzie, Carindale, Murarrie and Lytton, before meeting the Brisbane River via the Aquarium Passage along the Lytton Reach. The creek has six tributaries: Mimosa Creek, Spring Creek, Salvin Creek, Phillips Creek, Tingalpa Creek and Lindum Creek. There are also a number of significant wetlands systems in the catchment, including Runcorn Wetlands in the upper catchment and Numgubbah, Tingalpa, Doboy and Lindum Wetlands in the lower catchment.

The creek is currently impacted primarily by urban and industrial development. In the past the creek corridor was extensively cleared for cropping and then grazing in the early part of the last century with some remnant vegetation remaining. In some areas the reduction in rural industries has allowed riparian vegetation to regrow.

The catchment has a nature reserve network, mainly of protected hills, including Karawatha Forest, Toohey Forest Conservation Park and Mt Gravatt Outlook, Belmont Hills, Whites Hill and Pine Mountain, Seven Hills and Oates Hill. The creek feeds the Runcorn Water Reserve, Tingalpa Wetlands, Nungubba Swamp, Dairy Swamp, Lyndon Wetlands, Iona Wetlands, The Bulimba Creek Oxbow and Minnippi Parklands.