Published Resources Details
Conference Paper
- Title
- Melbourne's Main Outfall Sewer; an Engineering Achievement of the 1890s
- In
- Engineering Heritage Matters: Conference Papers of the 12th National Conference on Engineering Heritage, Toowoomba, 29 September to 1 October 2003
- Imprint
- Engineers Australia, Barton, Australian Capital Territory, 2003, pp. 118-122
- ISBN/ISSN
- 064642775X
- Url
- https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.338817244782995
- 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.
Related Published resources
isPartOf
- Engineering Heritage Matters: Conference Papers of the 12th National Conference on Engineering Heritage, Toowoomba, 29 Sept to 1 Oct 2003 edited by Sheridan, Norman (Barton, Australian Capital Territory: Engineers Australia, 2003), 183 pp, https://search.informit.org/doi/book/10.3316/informit.064642775X. Details