In a spirit of pardonable rivalry and to attract custom he ordered his men to offer beer to any who crossed in his punt. The river is the lifeline of the city and its inhabitants. The Yarra River has about 50 named tributaries; 6 rivers, 42 creeks and 2 gullies. Lower Yarra is almost three times the width of what it originally used to be. As a result, Melbourne residents receive   high quality drinking water.Flooding was a regular feature of the Yarra with its original watercourse of narrow and twisting curves. Industries used the river as a dumping ground for their waste which increased the presence of heavy metals and chemicals in the river water. John Grainger designed the bridge and was built by David Munro. The first permanent bridge built of sandstone and incorporating only a single 46m arch span was completed in 1851. ToMelbourne.com.au is all about Melbourne. To see this page as it is meant to appear, please enable your Javascript! The river is the lifeline of the city and its inhabitants. The first bridge was built on 1840, five years after founding the city of Melbourne. A series of dams were built to ensure drinking water supply.Yarra river provides 70% of Melbourne’s drinking water needs. For the aborigines, the land did not belong to them instead they belonged to the land and this purity of thought kept the river pristine until the Europeans arrived. Wool washing, soaking animal hides in the river, using it as a garbage dump and sewer in the early days of settlement degraded the water quality. In 1844, a wooden trestle bridge was built across the river. It was widened and straightened in 1891 to eliminate the risk of flooding. Johnson Street Bridge (1858), Princes Bridge (1888) , Sandridge Bridge(1888) Queens Bridge (1889), Morell Bridge (1899), Warrandyte Bridge(1952), West Gate Bridge(1978), Bolte Bridge(1999) and the City Link Tunnels(1997) are some of the engineering marvels that helped us cross the river.Yarra’s named tributaries includes, 42 creeks, 6 rivers and 2 gullies. Batman’s surveyor John Helder Wedge, wanting to know the native name of the river asked an aboriginal boy pointing at the river and the boy shouted, Yanna  Yanna , which only means, it is flowing, it is flowing. The construction of Coode Canal was one of the first big engineering feats accomplished in Melbourne on those days. Were obliged to go up to our middle to get to the boat and got on board between five and six o’clock.”In December 1856, the river swept away much that had been built rising 50 feet In two days, it swept In one tide over the south of the city to the sea, drowning many people and causing a quarter of a million pounds damage. Birrarung was the very first name that the indigenous Australians gave it. It rises near Mount Matlock in the Eastern Highlands and flows westward for 153 miles (246 km) through the Upper Yarra Dam, past the towns of Warburton, Yarra Junction, and Warrandyte, to Melbourne.
What Ganges is to India and Nile is to Egypt, Yarra is Melbourne’s sacred river. Small historical bridges from Warburton to Warrandyte and after, may hide many stories of early settlers fight against the nature. Yarra River, river, south-central Victoria, Australia. The river flows from its source in the Yarra Ranges 242 kilometres (150 mi) west through the Yarra Valley. It was a rope hauled punt.But Watt’s punt license was cancelled by Captain Lonsdale siting the reason, he occasioned a “great deal of irregularity in assembling a number of disorderly characters about his punt and making them drunk”. Tuesday, August 11, 2020 In the 1890’s some attempts were made to keep the river clean. It then empties into Hobsons Bay in northernmost Port Phillip. This is your destination for up- to- date information on Attractions, Events, Accommodation and things to do in Melbourne. © Copyright 2020 - ToMelbourne.com.au “The land appears to be covered with water in wet seasons. You can swim anywhere else in the Yarra, within reason, from the river's source in the Yarra Ranges, down to Abbotsford. This bridge was designed by David Lennox and was at the time the longest single span bridge in the world. Yarra begins its course in the foothills of Mt Baw Baw in the Yarra Ranges National Park and when it enters its mouth at the entrance to Port Phillip Bay at Newport, it covers a distance of approximately 242 km. 1891 had a rather big flood where water rose 14m higher than normal which destroyed 200 houses in Collingwood and Richmond.To eliminate the risk of flooding it was necessary to make changes to its course.

It then empties into Hobsons Bay in northernmost Port Phillip. But the Yarra is much more than this. “Having served the needs of the colonists by keeping the punt open for twelve months, he was concerned to see a rival punt established by a competitor. Saw many swans, pelicans, and ducks. The Yarra river is a perennial river in east-central Victoria, Australia. It was the source of freshwater until Yan Yean reservoir was opened. Without his knowledge then, late at night brickmakers on the other side of the road availed themselves and had crossed and recrossed till they were drunk”.On Sunday’s the punt charged 4 pence each way for a foot passenger that was at a time when the average yearly pay was around 30 pounds a year.”Instead of Watt, John Welsh got permission to place a punt in a similar place.

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