Published Resources Details
Journal Article
- Title
- The Tarago River Aqueduct (Symposium)
- In
- Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia
- Imprint
- vol. 31, no. 1-2, Jan-Feb 1959, pp. 1-19
- Description
This Symposium of papers, No.1276, originated in the Melbourne Division of The Institution. Part 1 was presented before a Meeting of the Civil Engineering Branch of the Division on 26th September, 1952, and Part 2 was presented before a meeting of the same Branch on 31st August, 1956.
Mr. Green, BCE MIEAust, at the time of presentation of his paper, was Senior Designing Engineer for Rural Water Supplies, and Mr. Maver, MCE AMIEAust, is a Senior Executive Engineer, Construction Branch, both of the State Rivers and Water Supply Commission. Victoria.
- Abstract
The State Rivers and Water Supply Commission of Victoria conserves and supplies water for domestic and industrial purposes and market garden supplies throughout the Mornington Peninsula Waterworks District, extending around the shores of Port Phillip Bay from Mordialloc, some 18 miles south-east of Melbourne, to the southernmost tip of the Peninsula and eastwards to Westernport Bay.
The rapid growth in the population served by the existing works on the Bunyip River (from 45,000 in 1945 to 67,000 in 1950 and 108,000 in 1956) made it imperative to increase the available water supplies by the diversion of the upper 23 square miles of the Tarago River catchment, some 80 miles from Melbourne.
The Tarago River Diversion Project, commenced in 1950, included the construction of a diversion weir, together with 3 ¾ miles of open aqueduct, 10 ½ miles of pipeline and 2 miles of tunnel.
The scheme was designed for construction in two stages. The first stage permits the diversion of 16 cusecs or 8.6 million gallons per day, while the second stage, which will include the construction of a storage reservoir on the Tarago River and the duplication of some ten inverted siphons, will increase the water for diversion to a maximum of 32 cusecs or 17.2 million gallons per day.
Due to lack of funds the work was suspended from 1952 to 1954, but the first stage was completed early in 1957. The total cost of this stage, which was carried out by both day labor and contract, was approximately £1,740,000.
The two papers of this symposium describe the location, design and construction of the Tarago River Aqueduct, with particular reference to problems of planning and execution of works of this nature in difficult, remote and undeveloped country of relatively high rainfall.Part 1: Location and Design of the Tarago River Aqueduct,
K. D. Green, BCE MIEAust, pp1-10;Part 2: Construction of the Tarago River Aqueduct,
J. L. Maver, MCE AMIEAust, pp.11-19.