Serpentine Creek
Serpentine Creek – Serpentine Reserve, O’Halloran Hill to Fountain Valley Reserve, Happy Valley
The Urban Creek Resilience and Recovery projects will restore waterway health and enhance the natural environment along Panalatinga Creek, Serpentine Creek, Sauerbier Creek, and Homestead Creek, as well as some of their tributaries in the suburbs of Happy Valley, O’Halloran Hill, Reynella East, Old Reynella, Woodcroft, and Aberfoyle Park.
Funded by the Australian Government’s Urban Rivers and Catchments Program, these projects will address common challenges affecting our creeks, including pollution, erosion, silt buildup, and loss of native vegetation, all of which have been impacted by urban development.
These creeks are highly valued by the community, providing important recreational spaces, wildlife habitat, and connections to Aboriginal cultural landscapes. We recognise their significance and are committed to ensuring they remain healthy and thriving for future generations—both for people and the native species that rely on them.
This initiative builds on the success of the City of Onkaparinga’s award-winning Urban Creek Recovery Project (2013–18), which improved the condition and connectivity of 62.5km of watercourse habitats.
Community consultation on the concept design for Panalatinga Creek and Serpentine Creek
We are hosting community consultation sessions on the concept design for the Urban Creek Resilience and Recovery Project at Serpentine Creek and Panalatinga Creek.
The proposed design builds on the feedback from previous community, stakeholder, and First Nations engagement workshops and site meetings undertaken between October 2024 and December 2025.
Engagement is open until 27 April 2026.
This is a five‑year project, funded by the Australian Government, to restore 5.3 kilometres of degraded waterways along the Serpentine and Panalatinga Creeks. It addresses pollution, erosion, silt build‑up, weed invasion, native vegetation loss and localised flooding while improving habitat, water quality and community access.
These creeks face pressures from decades of urbanisation - such as concrete drainage, bank erosion, invasive woody weeds, reduced canopy cover, increased stormwater flows, silt accumulation and fragmented wildlife habitat. Restoring these systems will improve ecological health, waterway connectivity, native vegetation recovery, climate resilience, and recreational and cultural value for the community. A restored and more natural system will encourage wildlife including threatened species that have disappeared from the local area.
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Panalatinga Creek
Panalatinga Creek – from Byards Road Wetlands, Reynella East to Old Reynella and Woodcroft
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Sauerbier and Homestead Creeks
Sauerbier Creek – from Peppermint Grove Park to Tangara Drive. Homestead Creek - from Woodland Ridge Conservation Area to Corro Street where it joins Sauerbier Creek in Aberfoyle Park
