Canning Dam

The Canning Dam is a gravity dam across the Canning River, located near Ashendon, in the City of Armadale, Western Australia. Completed in 1940, the dam created the Canning Reservoir that serves as a major source of potable water for the city of Perth, Western Australia. The dam's catchment area is dean from the Darling Scarp.

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Midgegooroo National Park

Midgegooroo National Park, formerly the Canning National Park, is a national park in the Perth metropolitan region of Western Australia, 43 kilometres south-east of Perth. It is located in the City of Armadale, and part of the Jarrah Forest bioregion. Midgegooroo National Park was created as Class A reserve No. 47884 on 30 November 2004 with a size of 2,492 hectares as one of nine national parks proclaimed in the state that day. The national park, on land whose traditional owners are the Whadjuk people, was renamed in 2008 after Midgegooroo, an Australian Aboriginal elder executed in 1833 for his resistance to European settlement by the settlers. It was one of a number of national and regional parks to be renamed in the state at this point, among them the Pickering Brook National Park, which borders Midgegooroo to the north, and was renamed Korung National Park. The main features in the national park are Canning Dam and the Munda Biddi Trail, a long-distance mostly off-road cycling trail, which passes through the park.

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Araluen Pumpback Dam

The Araluen Pumpback Dam is a minor dam that crosses the Canning River, near Roleystone, in the City of Armadale, on the Darling Ranges in Western Australia. Water stored in the dam can be pumped back into Canning Dam where the water is treated and distributed through the metropolitan trunk main distribution system.

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Araluen-Wungong Important Bird Area

The Araluen-Wungong Important Bird Area is a 123 km2 tract of land in the Darling Ranges on the south-eastern fringe of the city of Perth, Western Australia. The name derives from the Araluen Botanic Park within the Important Bird Area, and the adjacent suburb of Wungong. It is an important site for black cockatoos.

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Churchman Brook Dam

The Churchman Brook Dam is an earth-fill embankment dam approximately 30 kilometres southeast of Perth, Western Australia in the City of Armadale. The reservoir serves as a source of potable water for Perth. The reservoir has a capacity of 2.24 gigalitres for a catchment area of 16 square kilometres.

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Araluen Botanic Park

Araluen Botanic Park is located in a sheltered valley in the Darling Ranges, approximately 30 kilometres south of Perth, Western Australia, in the suburb of Roleystone. The Botanical Park covers an area of about 59 hectares. There is a small entry fee to the park, and it is open every day of the year. There is a mixture of exotic plant varieties, however the park also contains many remnants of native bush.

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It is noted for its innovative structural and hydraulic design that was considered to be at the forefront of concrete gravity dam design at the time of construction in from 1933 to its completion. The Canning Dam was Perth's primary water supply up until the 1961 when other sources of fresh water were tapped, such as the Serpentine dam. Currently the dam supplies approximately 20 percent of Perth's fresh water. Inflow into the Canning Reservoir is estimated to be 22 gigalitres (18,000 acre⋅ft) and, when full, the reservoir has a storage capacity of 90.352 gigalitres (73,250 acre⋅ft). Since its completion in 1940, the Canning Dam has contributed to a wide range of environmental and ecological problems in surrounding regions, problems include more common algal blooms, habitat loss and sedimentation. Despite these issues, Canning Dam and the adjacent parks and forests provide a variety of recreational activities for the public such as bushwalking, historic walks and picnic facilities.