Sandy Creek (Camira)

Information from  City of Ipswich Waterway Health Strategy, 2020

The upper and middle sections of the Sandy Creek (Camira) sub-catchment area cover 25km2 within the Ipswich LGA. The creek flows through the suburbs of Camira and Carole Park, before it flows into Wolston Creek and then the Lower Brisbane River outside of the Ipswich boundary.

Land use within the sub-catchment is a mixture of urban, light industrial (Carole Park Industrial Estate) and bushland predominantly within the Greenbank Military Camp. There are also a number of council conservation and landholder partnerships across the sub-catchment.

The channel form is predominantly natural, however there are some concrete channelised sections. A vegetated riparian corridor exists for the length of Sandy Creek and contains mapped palustrine wetlands in the upper subcatchment. They have been identified as in good condition by Queensland Wetlands.

The waterway drains through a combination of residential land and council parks and reserves in the upper reaches. The waterway in the lower reaches flows through the back of industrial lots in Carole Park.

Registered Indigenous cultural heritage site with the Camira Bora Ring and other artefacts located.

Anecdotal sightings and recent detection of Platypus