When Melbournians consider the Yarra River, they think of the last few kilometres flowing through the city. But the Yarra is much more than this. It flows 242 kilometres from headwaters to sea – from its source on the flanks of Mt Baw Baw in the Yarra Ranges National Park, north-east of Melbourne, through the Yarra […]
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Yan Yean Reservoir
Yan Yean Reservoir: Celebrating its birth 150 Years on by Lindsay Mann ‘Of the first importance to a community is the plentiful supply of good water. In the formation of towns all other desiderata are subordinated to this …’. So wrote George Slater, in The News Letter of Australasia (March 1857, p. 3), in commenting […]
Peck’s dam Montmorency
This man-made dam, located between Napier Crescent and Pedersen Way, was built in the early 1900’s to service the surrounding farmland. It came to be named after the Peck family who lived in an adobe house next to the dam from the 1950’s until the 1970’s. The dam is about three quarters the size of […]
Waterwatch
Waterwatch is a free river health education and monitoring program, which aims to increase community understanding, participation and ownership of local river health issues. It involves schools and the community in the assessment and monitoring of water quality in our streams and wetlands. This is done via a number of activities including water testing and […]