The Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works was a public utility board in Melbourne, Australia, set up in 1891 to provide water supply, sewerage and sewage treatment functions for the city. The MMBW
Seal of the MMBW
Upper Yarra Reservoir
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The Upper Yarra Reservoir is a reservoir formed by the Upper Yarra Dam, an earth-filled embankment dam across the Yarra River, located at Reefton, near Warburton, east of Melbourne, Victoria, Australi
Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works
…technology to reduce the time, cost and disruption of sewer installation, and oversaw the construction of the Brooklyn Sewerage Pumping Station and the Upper Yarra Reservoir. In 1962 he published a master plan to meet the water requirements of the rapidly growing city to the new millennium, including diversion and damming…
The reservoir, during the 2007 drought