Franklin Vale Creek

Information from  City of Ipswich Waterway Health Strategy, 2020

The Franklin Vale Creek sub-catchment flows northeast to enter Western Creek at Calvert. About 91 per cent of the sub-catchment area (125km2) is within the Ipswich LGA.

Bushland covers about half of the sub-catchment however the floodplain and riparian zone are predominantly cleared.  The main land use in the sub-catchment is grazing, with instances of irrigated cropping and forestry plantation.

Franklin Vale Creek is characterised as a single continuous channel with anabranching sections. The creek has experienced instabilities due to the removal of vegetation and stock access, especially in the upper tributaries, which have experienced major erosion. 

The sub-catchment contains threatened ecological communities including Box Gum Grassy Woodland and Swamp Tea-tree  Melaleuca irbyana). These are listed as critically endangered in the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act 1999