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Aerial view - Historic images - Walkaround : Lower Stony Creek Dam Wall : Victoria Australia

The Lower Stony Creek Dam Wall is in the Brisbane Ranges, 88km (55mi) west of the State capital Melbourne in Victoria Australia. Lower Stony Creek Dam Wall was built between February 1873 and June 1874 and is historically significant as the first mass concrete gravity dam wall in Victoria and Australia, and the third such structure of its type in the world. It was an integral part of the Geelong Water Supply System, one of Victoria's earliest town water supply systems, commencing in 1873, which underpinned Geelong's development into a thriving city, port and manufacturing centre. The construction of the Lower Stony Creek Dam Wall marked an important moment in the history of engineering in Victoria through its early use of Portland cement concrete in a large structure and the application of the principles of stability developed by the Scottish civil engineer WJM Rankine. In 1874 the successful construction of a gravity dam involving the use of about 4,000 cubic metres of concrete, represented a significant technical advance. The Lower Stony Creek Reservoir supplied water to the Geelong area for more than 120 years. It was decommissioned in 2001, and subsequently included in the Brisbane Ranges National Park under the management of Parks Victoria. Credits and References State Library – Victoria https://www.slv.vic.gov.au/ Victorian Heritage Database https://vhd.heritagecouncil.vic.gov.a... ________________________________________________________________________________________________ We welcome you to comment, click the 'thumbs up' / 'like' button if you enjoyed the content and please click to subscribe; subscribing is TOTALLY free and helps with our channel. We would like to keep this channel kids and family friendly as much as possible, but also want viewers to express their positive thoughts or criticisms - Any suggestions or ideas for new drone locations, places to visit or requests on something historical for us to research are welcome in the comments; even to promote a business or location ! If you require an aerial video for your business or location, we'll give it a go and we are non-for-profit ... It's a hobby we enjoy doing. Any anti-social comments, poor language or links to your viewing choices can be left at our email address, so others don't need to experience them and us to delete! Also political, religious, discriminatory and racial remarks will be subject to the same. Urban Aerial Explorer can be contacted via email C/O Ludwig or son Alexander : [email protected] Facebook -   / urbanaerialexplorer   Postal Mail : 2-18 Davisons Place Melbourne 3000 Victoria Australia