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Melbourne Water is the organisation that controls much of the water system in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia including the city's reservoirs, sewerage and drainage system. Melbourne Water is wholly owned by the Victorian state Government. Major Retail customers of Melbourne Water are City West Water, South East Water and Yarra Valley Water [1]. Image File history File links Melbourne_Water. ...
Melbournes Yarra River is a popular area for walking, jogging, cycling, rowing and for relaxing on the banks with a picnic Melbourne (pronounced ) is the second most populous city in Australia, with a metropolitan area population of approximately 3. ...
Capital Melbourne Government Const. ...
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The word sewerage means the provision of pipes etc to collect and dispose of sewage. ...
The form of the Government of Victoria is prescribed in its Constitution, which dates from 1855, although it has been amended many times since then. ...
Melbourne Water was formed by the merger of Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works and a number of smaller urban water authorities in 1991. The Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works is a public utility board in Melbourne, Australia set up to provide water supply, sewerage and sewage treatment functions for the city. ...
Melbourne's water storages
Melbourne Water manages the nine Melbourne reservoirs outlined in the table below. Total storage capacity is 1,773,000 megalitires. [2] Image File history File linksMetadata IMG_3132. ...
Melbourne Reservoirs | Reservoir | Capacity (ML) | Year Completed | | Thomson | 1,068,000 | 1983 | | Cardinia | 287,000 | 1973 | | Upper Yarra | 200,000 | 1957 | | Sugarloaf | 96,000 | 1981 | | Silvan | 40,000 | 1932 | | Yan Yean | 30,000 | 1857 | | Greenvale | 27,000 | 1971 | | Maroondah | 22,000 | 1927 | | O'Shannassy | 3,000 | 1928 | | Total | 1,773,000 | | The Thomson River Dam is located about 130km east of Melbourne in Gippsland near the township of Beardmore and the Baw Baw National Park. ...
The Upper Yarra Reservoir is located east of Melbourne, past Warburton. ...
The Silvan Reservoir is located in Silvan about 30Km East of Melbourne, Victoria. ...
Yan Yean Reservoir is the oldest water supply for the city of Melbourne, Australia. ...
Water Supply Catchments
Overview 90% of Melbourne's water is sourced from uninhabited forests in the Yarra Ranges.In excess of 157 thousand hectares is reserved for water catchment. These forests primarily consist of Mountain Ash. Catchment areas have been closed to the public for over 100 years. [3] This article is about forests as a massing of trees. ...
The Shire of Yarra Ranges is a Local Government Area in Victoria, Australia. ...
A hectare (symbol ha) is a metric unit of surface area, equal to 100 ares (the name is a contraction of the SI prefix hecto + are). ...
Binomial name Eucalyptus regnans F.Muell. ...
Clearfell logging in catchment area's Clearfell logging is permitted in these catchment area's which in turn is reducing Melbourn's water supply. [4][5] It is estimated that 30 thousand megalitires of water could be saved per annum by phasing out logging. This represents 6% of Melbourne's annual usage. [6] Loggers on break, c. ...
External link - Melbourne Water
- Yarra Valley Water
- South East Water
- City West Water
- Melbourne water supply issues
- Department of Primary industries: Water Supply Catchment Protection
References - ^ http://www.melbournewater.com.au/content/about_us/who_we_are/who_we_are.asp
- ^ http://www.melbournewater.com.au/content/water/water_storages/water_storages.asp
- ^ http://www.melbournewater.com.au/content/water/water_supply_catchments/water_supply_catchments.asp
- ^ http://www.vicrainforest.org/Melbwater.php
- ^ http://www.wilderness.org.au/campaigns/forests/victoria/central_highlands/20011018_mr/
- ^ http://www.tcha.org.au/water.html
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