Upper Yarra Dam

In 1946 the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works approved the site for a new dam for Melbourne’s domestic water. It was at the confluence of Walsh’s Creek and the Yarra River, 20 km east of Warburton. The location was known as McVeigh’s, after McVeigh’s Upper Yarra Hotel on the Warburton-Woods Point Road.

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The Upper Yarra Project (in blue) and the existing water supply system of Melbourne (in black), Upper Yarra Dam, 1954

The Upper Yarra Project (in blue) and the existing water supply system of Melbourne (in black), Upper Yarra Dam, 1954

The Upper Yarra Project (in blue) and the existing water supply system of Melbourne (in black), Upper Yarra Dam, 1954

Publication Title: 
The Upper Yarra Dam
Publisher: 
Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works
Contributor: 
John Young Collection
Genre: 
pamphlet

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