Presentation to Brimbank Heritage Advisory Committee in 2014, with reduced build stages. Some details are not entirely accurate but general thrust is there, sans commentary.
5. • Aerial mapping done
across Melbourne
around 1946 shows
St. Albans and NE
Sunshine branches
join in the now Kevin
Wheelahan Gardens
• Same series further
north shows partial
watercourses but not
clearly enough to
bother with today
• Interesting to note St.
Albans branch was
already straightened
~200m either side of
crossing Devonshire
6.
7. Stony Creek drains the
heart of Brimbank
or at least it once did
Maribyrnong valley
aside, Brimbank very flat
sloping gently N-S
without deep cut streams
8. Stony Creek drains the
heart of Brimbank
or at least it once did
Maribyrnong valley
aside, Brimbank very flat
sloping gently N-S
without deep cut streams
“St. Albans South Drain”
joins unnamed east drain
forming constructed
creek in park setting
9. Stony Creek drains the
heart of Brimbank
or at least it once did
Maribyrnong valley
aside, Brimbank very flat
sloping gently N-S
without deep cut streams
“St. Albans South Drain”
joins unnamed east drain
forming constructed
creek in park setting
Confined to concrete
channel south of Furlong
Diverted underground
into Kororoit after 1946 &
1950 floods
10. Stony Creek drains the
heart of Brimbank
or at least it once did
Maribyrnong valley
aside, Brimbank very flat
sloping gently N-S
without deep cut streams
“St. Albans South Drain”
joins unnamed east drain
forming constructed
creek in park setting
Confined to concrete
channel south of Furlong
Diverted underground
into Kororoit after 1946 &
1950 floods
Sunshine east branch
past municipal offices
surfaces in Matthew Hill
Reserve as boundary
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22. Reference Documents
• University of Melbourne 1945 Photo-map 848-b1
• Museum Victoria McKay collection floods 1946-50
• Planning Maps Online (Victorian Government)
• PhotoMaps by nearmap
• Some 1860 Geological Survey Maps published under the
direction of Alfred R.C. Selwyn, Govt. Geologist, Dept. of
Public Lands available via State Library of Victoria search
• Mill Stream, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, pics from 2007
visit for Philosophy of Complexity workshop