Rushy Swamp

Statement of Significance

The site is a significant bird life sanctuary and also provides an example of the changing
environment caused by European settlement.

Physical Description

A small lake or swamp with a depth of about 1.5 metres.

The swamp is fed by the Boyamining Creek which drains north from that locality entering
the swamp on the south end across Douglas Road.

It is part of a chain of lakes which when they overflow discharges water into the ill
defined east branch of the Beaufort River.

History

Early surveyor's description was a swamp with jam and yate and good agricultural land
on the northern boundary.

Named after the rushes which grew prolifically in the water until the wet winter of 1974.
After this, salt killed off the rushes and many of the trees surrounding the edge of the
lake. It was a great habitat for native birds particularly waterfoul. One count of ducks on
the swamp was in excess of 3,000.

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