1803 First settlerment in Port Phillip area, Sullivan's
Bay (Sorrento)
1835 John Batman officially claimed the
Settlement of the Town of Melbourne
1842 Town of Melbourne given responsibility
for water management and distribution
1849 The private Melbourne Water Company
was pumping water from the Yarra River into large irin tanks in the city
1892 Surrey Hills Reservoir No.1 opened
1911 O'Shannassy System construction started
1914 O'Shannassy System completed
1915 O'Shannassy Lodge built
1919 Site for Silvan Dam selected
1923 Serious landslip on Aqueduct
1924 Height of Aqueduct walls increased
1925 New reservoir built at Olinda
1926 Bushfires destroy forest near the Weir
1926 Serious break in Aqueduct near Warburton
1927 Silvan Dam construction started
1928 O'Shannassy Weir replaced by the larger O'Shannassy
Reservoir
1929 Upper Yarra Conduit commissioned
1929 Surrey Hills Reservoir Nol. 2 opened
1930 Silvan Dam completed
1931 Silvan Dam officially commissioned
1933 Parts of Mt Evelyn aqueduct widened
1939 Black Friday bushfires impact on Aqueduct
at Warburton
1940 Upper Yarra Conduit built
1947 Landslip - Dee Bridge built
1954 Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip stay at
O'Shannassy Lodge
1965 Yarra Silvan Conduit built
1972 Mt Evelyn aqueduct closed
1991 Melbourne Water formed
1993 Serious break in Aaueduct above Warburton
1996 Aqueduct decommissioned
2006 Pigging of main undertaken
2007 Aqueduct Trail opened
