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Riverlife - Sustainable Water Environments (219 words) |
 | Cooks River is located in the southern suburbs of Sydney and covers an area of approximately 10 200 hectares.Cooks River originates in Bankstown and flows 23 kilometres east to discharge into Botany Bay. |
| Cooks River is regarded as one of the most polluted urban rivers in Australia. |
| Discharges of sediments and gross pollutants combined with sewage overflows are significant contributors to the degradation of the river. |
| Cooks River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1067 words) |
| The Cooks River is a 23 kilometre long urban waterway of south-western Sydney, New South Wales, Australia emptying into Botany Bay. |
| In 1770, Captain Cook sailed into Botany Bay and made the first written description of the river as follows: "I found a very fine stream of fresh water on the north side in the first sandy cove within the island before which a ship might lay land-locked and wood for fuel may be got everywhere." |
| Concreting of the river banks was commenced in the 1930s and the Cooks River Improvement Act of 1946 confirmed the policy this tidying up of an undisciplined stream within neat cement boundaries. |
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