Published Resources Details
Journal Article
- Title
- Melbourne's Main Outfall Sewer: An Engineering Achievement of the 1890s
- In
- Australian Journal of Multi-disciplinary Engineering
- Imprint
- vol. 3, no. 1, 2005, pp. 51-56
- Url
- https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.194807121717646
- Description
Paper presented at the National Engineering Heritage Conference (12th: 2003 : Toowoomba).
- Abstract
For a century the 25 kilometre long, brick and concrete main outfall sewer carried sewage from the pumping station at Spotswood (now part of Scienceworks museum) to the treatment farm at Werribee in Melbourne's west. The now disused Main Outfall Sewer was included in the Victorian Heritage Register in 2001, and while it may strike some as unusual to see significance in a sewer, it was nonetheless a vital link in the 1890s sewerage system of Melbourne, the largest single civil engineering project undertaken in Victoria until that time, and an important artefact of the process of development of Melbourne into a modern metropolis. The Main Outfall Sewer is also a tangible link with the formation of the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works whose role as the unifying force for major infrastructure projects in Melbourne over the last century is of enormous historical importance.
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- '12th National Engineering Heritage Conference - Selected Papers (2003 : Toowoomba)', Australian Journal of Multi-disciplinary Engineering, 3 (1) (2005), https://search.informit.org/toc/ajmde/3/1. Details