About N4C

The Norman Creek Catchment Coordinating Committee (N4C) is a not for profit organisation established in 1996. Staffed by volunteers, the group’s aim is to protect and maintain the ecosystem of Brisbane’s Norman Creek Catchment.
We’re a community-based not-for-profit group, totally independent of government or industry.
offices for N4C

History of N4C

In 1996 Brisbane City Council commissioned a public consultation process to assess which type of management plan best suited the people, plants and animals living within the Norman Creek Catchment. One of the recommendations of this plan was that an independent, locally based community committee be established to work in partnership with the council. The first action arising from the plan was a public meeting held in October 1996. At this meeting the Norman Creek Catchment Coordinating Committee Inc (N4C) was formed.

Geography

Norman Creek is located in Brisbane, Australia. The creek passes through suburbs such as Mount Gravatt, Greenslopes, East Brisbane, Woolloongabba, Norman Park, Moorooka and parts of Camp Hill. The catchment has an area of 2900 hectares, including 298ha of parklands, 17ha of sporting fields, and 700ha of road corridors.

In the catchment, captured water flows down through a network of streams and creeks on its journey into the Brisbane River before entering Moreton Bay. There are 24km of waterways, including 15km of freshwater creeks. Norman Creek itself (ie the main channel) is 6km tidal and 5km freshwater. There are 12 tributaries; as you go upstream from the mouth of Norman Creek, you will pass:

  • Ben’s Hole Creek (tidal)
  • Scotts Creek (tidal)
  • Bridgewater Creek (tidal and fresh)
  • Coorparoo Creek (tidal)
  • Kingfisher Creek (tidal)
  • Little Swamp Creek (fresh)
  • Sandy Creek (fresh)
  • Mott Creek (fresh)
  • Ekibin Creek (fresh)
  • Wellers Hill Creek (fresh)
  • Perrone Creek (fresh)
  • Glindemann Creek (fresh)

The catchment covers almost 30 square kilometres and is home to almost 100,000 people. Norman Creek Catchment is the most heavily urbanised catchment in Queensland – most of the surface area is covered with roads, concrete and housing. This means that only 2% open space is left for Norman Creek and its tributaries, as opposed to the 30% which is recommended for terrestrial and marine ecosystems.

    Acknowledgements

    N4C acknowledges the Traditional Owners and their custodianship of the lands on which N4C is situated and conducts its bushcare and environmental work.

    N4C’s operations are proudly supported by Brisbane City Council.

    Thanks to Sharon Fraser for the design of our logo, which represents the relationship between nature and culture within our urban environment in Brisbane’s Norman Creek Catchment.