Homebush Bay

Homebush Bay Sydney, New South Wales
Homebush Bay with SS Ayrfield and Rhodes in the background.
Postcode(s)	2127
Location	13 km (8 mi) west of Sydney CBD
LGA(s)	City of Parramatta City of Canada Bay
State electorate(s)	Auburn Drummoyne
Federal division(s)	Reid
Suburbs around Homebush Bay: Melrose Park Meadowbank Rhodes Wentworth Point Homebush Bay Liberty Grove Sydney Olympic Park Sydney Olympic Park North Strathfield

Homebush Bay is a bay on the south bank of the Parramatta River, in the west of Sydney, Australia. The name is also sometimes used to refer to an area to the west and south of the bay itself, which was formerly an official suburb of Sydney, and has now become the suburbs of Sydney Olympic Park, Wentworth Point and part of the neighbouring suburb of Lidcombe, all part of the City of Parramatta. Homebush Bay is located 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) west of the Sydney central business district.

The bay has a natural and artificial shoreline on the southern side of the Parramatta River between the suburbs of Wentworth Point and Rhodes. In the 1900s the bay was contaminated with dioxins and other chemicals by the local Union Carbide chemical plant, which has led to commercial fishing bans in most of Sydney Harbour, and health advisories about limiting the quantity of fish eaten from the Parramatta River. Other contaminants in the bay include phthalates, lead, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, DDT, and heavy metals.^[1] The eastern shore of the bay was remediated starting in 2008 to remove about 75% of the dioxins from the bay. Remediation was completed in mid-2010, however fishing is still prohibited in Homebush Bay.

The western shore of Homebush Bay is in the local government area of the City of Parramatta, while its eastern shore is in the City of Canada Bay. As a result, the bay forms part of the geographical boundary between the Greater Western Sydney region in the west and the Inner West region of Sydney in the east,^[2] except that the suburb of Wentworth Point, at the northern tip of the western bank, is sometimes marketed as being in the Inner West.^[3]

Homebush and Homebush West are suburbs to the south, some distance away from the shores of the bay, in the Municipality of Strathfield.