Black Snake Creek

Information from  City of Ipswich Waterway Health Strategy, 2020

The Black Snake Creek sub-catchment covers an area of 35km2 within the Ipswich LGA. The remaining 64 per cent of the lower sub-catchment area is in the Somerset LGA.

Black Snake Creek drains the northern slopes of the rolling hills which separate the Bremer and Brisbane River catchments. The creek flows north through the historical township of Marburg and enters the Brisbane River between Wivenhoe Dam and Mt Crosby Weir, which is the offtake point for two main water treatment plants in South-East Queensland.

Land use within the sub-catchment is primarily livestock grazing with the majority of the catchment in private ownership. The creek is highly modified and degraded and is characterised as a continuous channel along much of its length, due to historic channel incision.

In 2002 a large flood detention basin was constructed on Black Snake Creek upstream of Marburg to reduce the impact of flooding on the town.

Some pockets of Brigalow ecological community (Acacia harpophylla). Brigalow is listed as endangered in the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act 1999.