Lockyer Creek, Queensland

Lockyer Creek is a major drainage system in the Lockyer Valley, South East Queensland that flows into the Brisbane River. The total catchment area is approximately 2890 km². The creek is named after Edmund Lockyer.

The creeks headwaters are in the Great Dividing Range. Much of the creeks floodplains have been cleared, while parts of the catchment are still heavily vegetated. Bushfires, soil protection, water quality and flood management are the main resource management issues for this creek. [South East Queensland Regional Strategy Group, "Strategic Guide to Resource Management in South East Queensland", November 2000. p 102.]

There are numerous private and public water storage within this drainage system, including Atkinson Dam and Lake Clarendon. The Lockyer Creek valley has been on of the driest catchments in Queensland during the recent droughts in Australia.

The Lockyer Creek Railway Bridge at Guinn Park was designed by William Pagan, is on of the largest of its type in Queensland and one of Australia's first reinforced concrete arch rail bridges. Another bridge on the same line with the same name is closer to Gatton and was built in 1903. [Queensland Environmental Protection Agency, "Heritage Trails of the Great South East", State of Queensland, 2000 ISBN 0-7345-1008-X]

Five kilometres upstream from the junction of Lockyer Creek and the Brisbane River, is the Wivenhoe Dam.

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