Water and wastewater utility in Victoria, Australia
A Yarra Valley Water stall at a community festival in Melbourne. Yarra Valley Water is the largest of three Victorian Government owned retail water corporations that provides drinking water and sewerage services to over two million people and over 58,000 businesses in the northern and eastern suburbs of Melbourne . The water distributed by Yarra Valley Water is supplied by Melbourne Water , as is the infrastructure. Oversight is provided by the Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action . [1]
Yarra Valley Water's district covers approximately 4,000 square kilometres from as far north as Wallan and extending to Warburton in the east. Yarra Valley Water owns and maintains over 10,000 km of water mains and over 9,800 km of sewer mains. [1]
Yarra Valley Water's activities are overseen by an independent Board of Directors appointed by the Victorian Government. Yarra Valley Water's head office is situated in Mitcham and employs around 600 staff. [1]
Water supply in Victoria, Australia
Greater Metropolitan Melbourne dams / reservoirs by capacity
Thomson 1.123 million ML (247 billion imp gal; 297 billion US gal)
Cardinia 287,000 ML (63 billion imp gal; 76 billion US gal)
Upper Yarra 200,000 ML (44 billion imp gal; 53 billion US gal)
Sugarloaf 96,000 ML (21 billion imp gal; 25 billion US gal)
Silvan 40,000 ML (8.8 billion imp gal; 11 billion US gal)
Tarago 37,500 ML (8.2 billion imp gal; 9.9 billion US gal)
Yan Yean 30,000 ML (6.6 billion imp gal; 7.9 billion US gal)
Greenvale 27,000 ML (5.9 billion imp gal; 7.1 billion US gal)
Maroondah 22,000 ML (4.8 billion imp gal; 5.8 billion US gal)
O'Shannassy 3,000 ML (660 million imp gal; 790 million US gal)
Anakie
Melton
Toorourrong
Regional dams / reservoirs Other water sources / facilities Water companies and government agencies Historical
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