Published Resources Details
Journal Article
- Title
- The Sewers of Melbourne: Planning and Building the System
- In
- Historic Environment
- Imprint
- vol. 8, no. 3-4, 1991, pp. 42-48
- ISBN/ISSN
- 0726-6715
- Url
- https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.869759648530464
- Subject
- History of Applied Sciences Engineering and Technology
- Description
From a paper presented at "The past at work: Industrial history conference", April 21 - 22 1990, Melbourne.
- Abstract
On its formation in 1891 the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works at once embarked on the project of sewering Melbourne. The sewerage system that it built and which forms the basis of today's system was designed to bring all the effluent of the metropolis by gravity through a series of main sewers to a pumping station at Spotswood. There the raw sewage was pumped upwards from deep below the surface to a semi-open outfall sewer which began at Brooklyn and eventually discharged onto a farm at Werribee. At Werribee the sewage was used to irrigate pasture and crops where it was purified by trickle filtering through the earth until it eventually discharged into Port Phillip.
- Source
- Carlson 1993