History

There are two traditional custodians of the Chipping Norton Lakes area – the Tharawal people, which inhabited the southern side of the , and the people to the north and west of the River.

European settlers such as Thomas Moore, were granted waterfront land that is now part of the park. The Homestead within the reserve grounds was built in the 1880s. As farming activities declined, the rich topsoil and underlying sand was mined. Chipping After 20 years of mining, the riverbanks were packed with dangerous pits and eroded banks. In 1977 the Chipping Norton Administration Centre Norton Lakes Authority was set up to rehabilitate the area into 1 Hoxton Park Road Lakes parkland. Liverpool NSW 2170

Today, Liverpool City Council, Council and Fairfield Customer Service Centre City Council work together to manage the wildlife refuge and 193 Macquarie Street recreation areas of Chipping Norton Lakes. Liverpool NSW 2170

Postal Address Locked Bag 7064 Liverpool BC NSW 1871

Customer Contact Centre 1300 36 2170

TTY: 9821 8800

Fax: 9821 9333

Email: [email protected] Website: www.liverpool.nsw.gov.au

For more information on Liverpool’s many parks and recreational facilities phone Liverpool City Council. Recreation Getting to Chipping Norton Lakes

Beautiful Chipping Norton Lakes is a magnificent regional park By car – Get to Chipping Norton and Lake Moore via located along the Georges River on Homestead Avenue at Newbridge Road, Moorebank or to Chipping Norton Chipping Norton. via Hume Highway, Warwick Farm

Providing cycleways, BBQ facilities, picnic areas, playground equipment, boat ramps, sporting fields and the Georges River By train – Liverpool train station provides easy access to Lake Environment Education Centre, the lakes are an important Moore or Warwick Farm train station is only a recreational area for Liverpool. 1.5km walk to the Lakes The Chipping Norton Lakes also has a number of walkways – a highlight is the Lake Moore Walk starting at Chauvel Park and following the lake’s scenic foreshore to Haigh Park. The By bus – Catch Transit First, bus route 861 at Liverpool train 45-minute return trip is approximately 3.2km and is mainly flat station which runs regular services to Chipping and paved. Norton with a number of stops close to the lakes.

Watercraft are permitted on Chipping Norton Lake and Lake Moore, however, a strict speed limit of eight knots applies.

The Lakes Boatshed

Planning a birthday party, christening, wedding or any other type of function? Chipping Norton Lakes also features a community hall that can be hired by residents or community groups.

The Lakes Boatshed (Chipping Norton Recreation Centre) can accommodate up to 100 people and offers an upstairs balcony with magnificent views across the lakes and surrounding parkland.

For more details on hiring The Lakes Boatshed simply call the Liverpool City Council Customer Contact Centre on 1300 36 2170. You can help protect Chipping Norton Lakes by:

● Keeping away from exposed banks to stop soil erosion ● Staying on paths provided ● Protecting all native plants and animals ● Not dumping grass or weed clippings in the park ● Keeping dogs on a lead and out of the water ● Staying off the islands, which provide an important refuge for native birds and wildlife Natural Environment ● Disposing of your rubbish carefully in the bins provided or take it with you to recycle With over 50 different species of birds recorded in the park, ● Picking up your dogs droppings in a plastic bag and birdwatching is a popular activity. Visitors may see purple placing them in the nearest bin swamphens, pelicans, maned ducks, egrets, sacred ibis, ● Putting your cigarette butts in the bin pardalote and pacific black ducks. ● Taking care not to spill oil and petrol from your boat in Sedgelands, reeds, mangroves and alluvial (floodplain) forest the water also surround the lakes. Common native trees found in this area include the swamp oak (Casuarina glauca), blue box (Eucalyptus baueriana), forest red gum (Eucalyptus tereticornus), bangalay (Eucalyptus botryoides), grey box and rough barked apple (Angophora floribunda). Wattles and paperbarks can also be found along the foreshores.

Liverpool City Council’s Biodiversity Strategy maps remnant vegetation along the lakeside as Alluvial Woodland, a form of the Coastal River Flat Forest, which is considered to be an endangered ecological community.

The plant communities around the lakes provide a place to live Water Quality at and food for animals, insects and birds as well as shade for visitors to the park. Chipping Norton Lakes

The islands on the lakes have been developed as wildlife The water quality at Chipping Norton Lakes varies. Liverpool refuges and from time to time groups undertake weed City Council recommends that you don’t swim or fish in the removal and revegetation projects on the islands. Visitors are lakes. We are working at improving the water quality. Please not permitted access to the lake’s various islands, as they are remember that everything that you put down the drain ends important refuges for native birds and wildlife. up in our waterways. Facilities and Parks

Activities Haigh Park Thomas Moore Park Chauvel Park South Park Angle Park Grand Flaneur Beach Homestead Park Black Muscat Park Riverside Park Barbeque ●● ●● ●● Beach ●●●● Birdwatching ●●● ● Boat Ramp ●● Boating ●●●●●● Canoeing ●● ● ● ● Heron Cycleway/s ●●●●● ●● ● Park Disabled access ●●●●●●● Group shelter ●●●●● Heritage site ● Lookout ● Parking ●●●●●●●● Picnic area ●●●●● ●● Playground ●● ●● ● ● Sailing ●● ● Shelter ●●●●●●● Toilets ●●●●● Walkway/s ●●●●● ●● ●

Thomas Moore Park