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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 ...
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.
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.
Upper Yarra Reservoir is also supplied by water transferred from the Thomson River Dam. [8] As of January 2007, severe drought in south-eastern Australia had resulted in low water levels in the reservoir, which on 5 January 2007 was approximately half full. As of 22 July 2013, it contained 95,568 megalitres of water(47.6% full). [9]
A dam on the Thomson River was preferred because the river had a large flow, high water quality and was elevated high enough to provide water to the upper Yarra system by gravity flow. [ 1 ] Early work in the early 1970s saw construction of a 19-kilometre-long (12 mi) tunnel through the Thomson Yarra divide to allow water from the Thomson River ...
Mascoutah and Belleville fire departments are on the scene of an area near Illinois Route 158 and Keck Road for a water rescue, according to the St. Clair County Emergency Management Agency. 11:46 ...
At European arrival in 1835, Surveyor-General of the Colony of New South Wales John Helder Wedge of the Port Phillip Association visited the area with two Kulin People, who pointed at the flowing water and said yarra yarra, recorded in Wedge's notebook as the phrase yarrow yarrow, in the mistaken belief that this was the name for the river in ...