Wolli Creek

Wolli Creek
Wolli Creek Canal
Watercourse
Wolli Creek, view from the weir at Turrella.
Name origin: Aboriginal: "Black's camp"
Country	Australia
State	New South Wales
IBRA	Sydney Basin, St George
District	Southern Sydney
Municipalities	Hurstville, Rockdale
Part of	Cooks River catchment
Tributaries
- right	Bardwell Creek
Source	Beverly Hills Park
- location	south of Narwee
Mouth	confluence with the Cooks River
- location	between Arncliffe and Tempe
Length	9 km (6 mi)
Basin	22 km2 (8 sq mi)
Nature Reserve	Wolli Creek Regional Park

Wolli Creek, an urban watercourse of the Cooks River catchment, is located in the southern suburbs of Sydney, in New South Wales, Australia.

Wolli Creek rises south of Narwee, within Beverly Hills Park, Beverly Hills, and flows generally east northeast through Wolli Creek Valley and Wolli Creek Regional Park, joined by its major tributary, Bardwell Creek, before reaching its confluence with the Cooks River near Arncliffe and Tempe. The creek is a lined channel between Kingsgrove Road, Kingsgrove and Bexley Road, Bexley North where it then enters the Wolli Creek Valley. The sub-catchment area of the creek is 22 square kilometres (8.5 sq mi).

Adjacent to Wolli Creek, within the Wolli Creek Valley, is Wolli Creek Regional Park, a planned 50 hectares (120 acres) nature reserve of native bushland and public reserves that was announced by the NSW Government in 1998 as a result of sustained community campaigning for the area to be preserved and for the M5 East Freeway to go underground. Whilst some of the park has been formed and management handed over from local government authorities to the NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service, including the 8.9 hectares (22 acres) Girrahween Park and some privately held land that was compulsorily acquired, some areas of the originally planned park remain in the hands of government agencies including Sydney Water and Roads and Maritime Services.