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A Yarra Valley Water stall at a community festival in Melbourne. Yarra Valley Water is the largest of three Victorian Government owned retail water corporations that provides drinking water, sewerage, trade waste, recycled water, and water-saving services to over two million people and over 61,000 businesses in the northern and eastern suburbs of Melbourne, [1] or around 30% of Victoria's ...
Yan Yean Reservoir is the oldest water supply for the city of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. [1] At the time of its completion in 1857 it was the largest artificial reservoir in the world. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is 30 kilometres (19 mi) north of the city within the eponymous locality of Yan Yean , and is built on the Plenty River , a tributary of the ...
Water from Upper Yarra Reservoir supplies towns in the upper Yarra Valley, and Silvan Reservoir, which transfers water to most parts of Melbourne. The management of 157,000 hectares of Melbourne's forested water catchments of the Upper Yarra such as the Watts were vested in the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works (MMBW) in 1891. In 1928 ...
In 1888 a large part of the upper Yarra valley was reserved for water supply purposes. [ 8 ] In 1891, the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works (MMBW) was a public utility board in Melbourne, set up to provide water supply , sewerage and sewage treatment functions for the city, and to create a piped sewerage system.
[5] 600 metres of sewer pipes were installed by Yarra Valley Water as part of the Donvale Sewerage Project in March 2017. [6] From 2016-17, Manningham Council undertook enabling works at Park Road to allow construction to commence as soon as the sewerage works are completed, with three bridges across the creek being pre-fabricated offsite.
Melbourne Water supplies water to the metropolitan retail water businesses (namely, Great Western Water, South East Water and Yarra Valley Water [2]), other water authorities, local councils and the land development industry. [3] The Victorian Water Industry Association (VicWater) is the peak industry association for water companies in Victoria.
Sugarloaf Reservoir includes a major pumping station and water treatment plant. Sugarloaf uses water pumped from the Yarra River at Yering Gorge and water transferred from Maroondah Reservoir via the Maroondah aqueduct. Sugarloaf is important in meeting peak summer demand in the northern parts of Melbourne.
The Upper Yarra Valley refers to the Yarra River catchment upstream of Woori Yallock and includes towns like Warburton, Yarra Junction, and Launching Place.Historically part of the former Shire of Upper Yarra, this sub-region is known for its forested mountains and national parks, as well as its cooler climate, which impacts local agriculture and viticulture.