Nyaania Creek
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Nyaania Creek, Western Australia
''Nyaania was also a stopping place and locality name (31° 54ˡ S, 116° 06ˡ E) associated with the Eastern Railway between Bellevue and Mundaring ''
(located at 31º 55' S, 116º 03' E) is an important tributary seaonal creek that flows into the Helena River with a catchment that moves through a number of hills suburbs just east of the Darling Scarp.
Geographic Names at DLI in Midland, Western Australia have a name card that appears to attribute the name to a nyoongar word for living or fresh water but no available dictionary or word list appear to include this name or any similar term.
It has a catchment that moves through a number of hills suburbs just east of the Darling Scarp. It's source is in Mahogany Creek, and it flows through Glen Forrest, Darlington, and Boya, Western Australia and meets the Helena River in the locality of Helena Valley.
It is an important tributary seasonal creek that flows into the Helena River. Important because of its extensive flowing through private land for most of its length, and the issues that affect watercourses in the Darling Scarp region - usages of herbicides and other contaminants that can become waterborne - excess nutrients from fertilisers used in domestic gardens - inappropriate exotic weeds that flourish in difficult to access locations.
It has significant areas of reserves either adjacent, or within 100 metres either side of its main creek bed.
The upper portion of the creek has the Strettle Road Reserve on its north side - which is at the west end of Mahogany Creek which although completely a regenerated plot of land following extensive firing and logging in the last hundred years is a significant reserve. In Glen Forrest the Glen Forrest Super Block is on its south side just prior to the border with Darlington and near the location of the curiously named Devil's Terror location.
Devils' Terror Springs
Historically this creek achieved its significance in the construction of the Eastern Railway where a surveyed route of the railway encountered difficulties with the creek and creek bed, and it had to be diverted so as to allow for a more solid base for the railway line. The locality earned the name in the local Perth newspapers of the 1880's as The Devil's Terror and they cite the example of workers sinking in mud.For the duration of the Eastern Railway route usage (1880's to 1953) the Nyaania Creek/Eastern Railway/Devil's Terror location point of coincidence has had springs under or next to the railway line. The sleepers and rails were removed in the mid 1960's, and ever since the springs have maintained their presence even when the Nyaania Creek is dry in the middle of a drought. Many users of the subsequent Railway Reserve Heritage Trail have had a particular attraction to the persistence of the springs.
More recently the Nyaania Creek relocation/Devil's Terror location has been interfered by the covering the springs for improvements to the Heritage trail. Similar to the 1880's events, the 2006 efforts of suppressing the vitality of the living water creek and its tributary springs appeared to have resulted in calamity.
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