Centenary of the O'Shannassy Water Supply System - 1913 to 2013 - a Pictorial Heritage

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Home
Introduction
1803 - Beginnings
1892 - Surrey Hills Reservoirs
1911 - Design and Construction
1911 - The O'Shannassy Weir
1914 - Maintenance and Operations
1923 - Bushfires, Landslips, and Floods
1924 - Modifications and Enlargements
1927 - Silvan Dam
1927 - Mt Evelyn Aqueduct
1928 - The O'Shannassy Reservoir
1929 - Upper Yarra Conduits
1931 - Silvan Inlet Aqueduct
1996 - Decommissioning
2006 - Pigging Project
2007 - O'Shannassy Aqueduct Trail - Overview
O'Shannassy Aqueduct Trail - Parrot Rd to Don Rd
O'Shannassy Aqueduct Trail - Don Road to Dee Rd
O'Shannassy Aqueduct Trail - Dee Rd to Sussex St
O'Shannassy Aqueduct Trail - Sussex St to Yuonga Rd
O'Shannassy Aqueduct Trail - Yuonga Rd to Donna Buang Rd
O'Shannassy Aqueduct Trail - Donna Buang Rd to Cement Creek Rd
O'Shannassy Aqueduct Trail - Cement Creek Rd to the Weir
The Present
Epilogue
Timeline
Bibliography
The Author's Websites
Websites created by the author

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PICTORIAL HERITAGE PROJECTS

Readers are invited to visit any of the folllowing VICTORIAN PICTORIAL HERITAGE WEBSITES, published free on-line, and compiled by the author.

Each describes, in words and pictures, the evolution, history, heritage and development of the designated places.

Silvan Reservoir 1880-2011
Warrandyte 1839-2011
Maroondah Reservoir and Healesville 1862-2011
Bright 1850-2011
Mt Donna Buang and Warburton 1890-2011
Shoreham Beach 1860-2011
The Forests of Warburton 1853-2012

Upcoming Pictorial Heritage Projects

The following Heritage Research Projects are in the course of preparation, planned for publication during 2013:

The Upper Yarra Reservoir
The Mont Albert Neighbourhood
The Maroondah Aqueduct

PHOTO SITES

Check out the following FREE Photo sites, compiled by the author, and updated regularly!

Guide to Short Walks in Victoria (hundreds of walks described - fully searchable!)

Hiking Trips from Melbourne (hundreds of searchable entries, with selected images, in chronological order!)

Bob's YouTube Videos of hikes - over 200 Videos!)

Bob's Photo Album (searchable descriptions of nearly 1000 walks, with over 10,000 images!)

Bob's Picasa Photo Albums hundreds of images from Bob's Australian Bushwalking Journal - static or slideshow

His latest on-line Engineering Research Study is "The History of Short wave Broadcasting in Australia"

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