Little Para River - Citizendia

Little Para River
Little Para River, Carisbrooke reserve, Salisbury Park
Origin	near Lower Hermitage
Mouth	Globe Derby Park
Avg. Upper Hermitage is an outer northeastern rural suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. discharge	3590 m⁶/year

The Little Para River is a seasonal creek running across the Adelaide plains, whose catchment fills reservoirs that supply some of the water needs of Adelaide’s northern suburbs. In Hydrology, the discharge or outflow of a River is the volume of Water transported by it in a certain amount of time A stream is a body of Water with a current, confined within a bed and stream-banks Adelaide is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of South Australia, and is the fifth largest city in Australia with a It runs from its source near Lower Hermitage in the Mount Lofty Ranges, flows north westerly to the Little Para Reservoir and then westerly to the Barker Inlet of the Gulf Saint Vincent at Globe Derby Park. Upper Hermitage is an outer northeastern rural suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. The Mount Lofty Ranges are the range of mountains to the east of Adelaide in South Australia, stretching from the southernmost point of the Fleurieu Peninsula The Barker Inlet is a tidal Inlet of the Gulf St Vincent in Adelaide, South Australia, named after Captain Collet Barker who first St Vincent's Gulf ( is a large inlet of water on the southern coast of Australia, in the state of South Australia. The lower portion of the river is heavily impacted by human activity and stormwater runoff but the upper reaches have a good range of biodiversity. Stormwater is a term used to describe water that originates during precipitation events Biodiversity is the variation of Life forms within a given Ecosystem, Biome or for the entire Earth. ^[1]

The river attracted John Harvey to form his settlement at Salisbury in 1847 and was crucial to the development of the citrus industry from 1852. Salisbury (ˈsɔːlzbəri is a suburb in the north of Adelaide, South Australia. Citrus is a common term and Genus of Flowering plants in the family Rutaceae, originating in tropical and subtropical southeast regions of In the 1960s the City of Salisbury began acquiring land for public space, and a belt of parklands with biking and walking trails now borders the river. The City of Salisbury is a local government area (LGA located on the northern fringes of Adelaide, South Australia. ^[2] The river’s name derives from the Kaurna word Pari which roughly translates as a stream of flowing water. Kaurna is the language of the Kaurna people, an indigenous ethnic group in South Australia.

As the river flows down from the Adelaide Hills over the para fault escarpment, it has formed a large alluvial fan on which Salisbury is built. In Geology a fault, or fault line, is a planar rock fracture which shows evidence of relative movement In Geomorphology, an escarpment is a transition zone between different physiogeographic provinces that involves a sharp steep Elevation differential characterized An alluvial fan is a fan -shaped deposit formed where a fast flowing Stream flattens slows and spreads typically at the exit of a Canyon onto The river is narrow and winding, formerly flooded in heavy rain and rarely reaches its sea outlet. Over time the river has been widened and levees added to reduce this flooding. Dike (constructionEmbankmentA levee, levée, dike (or dyke) embankment, floodbank or stopbank is a natural or artificial ^[3] In the 1800s lack consistent flow in the river, and the absence of an organised water supply system, lead to the digging of wells. Water supply is the process of self-provision or provision by third parties of water of various qualities to different users The Little Para refreshes the well's water, mostly held in clay, sand and gravel layers up to 200 feet (61 m) deep. The Little Para reservoir is built in the path of the river for water storage and flood mitigation. A reservoir is most broadly a place or hollow vessel where Fluid is kept in Reserve, for later use As the river's catchment is insufficient to fill the reservoir, it is mainly used to store water pumped from the River Murray. The Murray River, or River Murray and sometimes informally referred to as the "Mighty Murray" is Australia 's largest River. Periodically water is released from the reservoir into the river, enabling refreshing of ground water. Groundwater is Water located beneath the Ground surface in Soil pore spaces and in the Fractures of lithologic formations ^[4]

References

^ Goonan, Peter; Madden Chris, McEvoy Paul, Taylor Daria (2003). River Health in the Mount Lofty Ranges. Department of Environment and Heritage, South Australian Government. Retrieved on 2006-09-03. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 36 BC - In the Battle of Naulochus, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, Admiral of Octavian, defeats Sextus Pompeius
^ Little Para Trails. City of Salisbury, South Australia. Retrieved on 2006-09-03. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 36 BC - In the Battle of Naulochus, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, Admiral of Octavian, defeats Sextus Pompeius
^ Lewis, H. John (1980). Salisbury South Australia, a history of town and district. Hawthorndene, South Australia: Investigator Press, p. 241. ISBN 0-85864-049-X.
^ Lewis, H. John (1980). Salisbury South Australia, a history of town and district. Hawthorndene, South Australia: Investigator Press, pp. 248-249. ISBN 0-85864-049-X.

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