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Around 80% of Melbourne's water is sourced from uninhabited forests in the Yarra Ranges and Central Highlands. In excess of 1,570 square kilometres is reserved for water catchment. These forests primarily consist of Mountain Ash. Catchment areas have been closed to the public for over 100 years . [11] [12] [13]
This is a list of rivers, creeks, lakes and reservoirs in the Melbourne Water catchment. Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory. M.
In 2008, Melbourne Water commenced work on the North South Pipeline from northern Victoria's Eildon and Goulburn Valley area to Melbourne. Another project to avert a water shortage in Melbourne was the Victorian Desalination Plant at Wonthaggi, south-east of Melbourne, which was completed in December 2012. It has an annual capacity of 150 ...
The larger waterbodies are used for water sports, mostly boating (especially sailing, rowing, canoeing and kayaking) but some are used for recreational activities like swimming, water skiing or model boating. Melbourne also has a number of major artificial lakes as storage reservoirs that supply the city's drinking water, as well as many ...
The reservoir resisted a flood that hit Melbourne in 1923, and became the city's main water emergency resource after the incident. [14] In 1871–72, an arid season led to low water levels in the reservoir and a failure to distribute water throughout the city. During the Second World War, the catchment area was closed for security reasons. [10]
Cardinia Reservoir is an Australian man-made water supply saddle dam reservoir.The 287,000 ML (63 billion imp gal; 76 billion US gal) water store is located in Emerald–Clematis–Dewhurst in south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria.
The Dandenong Creek (Aboriginal Bunwurrung: Narra Narrawong [1] or Dandinnong [2]) is an urban creek [3] of the Port Phillip catchment, located in the eastern and south-eastern Greater Melbourne region of the Australian east coast state of Victoria.
At that time, the catchments were closed and cleared of human habitation. The river was dammed in 1927 to form the Maroondah Reservoir, which is largely contained in the forested reservoir catchment within the Yarra Ranges National Park. [4] The river is traversed by the Maroondah Highway, upriver of the Maroondah Reservoir. [3]