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Malad Creek or Marve Creek is a creek in north-west
Malad Creek or Marve Creek is a creek in north-west Mumbai
Mumbai (, ; also known as Bombay — the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra and the ''de facto'' financial centre of India. According to the United Nations, as of 2018, Mumbai is the second- ...
. Located west of Malad
Malad (Pronunciation: aːlaːɖ is a suburb located in North Mumbai. Malad has a railway station on the Western line (Mumbai Suburban Railway) of the Mumbai Suburban Railway, lying between Kandivali station to the north and Goregaon station t ...
, the Oshiwara River
Oshiwara River is a river in Mumbai, India. It begins in the Aarey Milk Colony, cuts through the Goregaon hills, across the Aarey Milk Colony before emptying into the Malad Creek. On the way it is joined by another creek near Swami Vivekanand ...
drains into it. To the west is Madh Island
Madh Island (Marathi pronunciation: əɖʱ is a group of several quaint fishing villages and farmlands in northern Mumbai.
Geography
The area is bounded by the Arabian Sea to the west, and the Malad creek on the east. There are few beaches li ...
, and to the east lies Versova. Earlier it was surrounded by a area of mangroves. But now this area has shrunk to as the real estate prices in Malad went up. Malad creek is 5 km in length.
The Malad sewage treatment plant gives preliminary treatment of waste before discharging it directly into the creek, and in 2017 was considered "perhaps the worst" polluting plant in the city.
References
{{coord, 19, 08, N, 72, 48, E, display=title, region:IN_type:waterbody_source:GNS-enwiki Estuaries of Mumbai