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Melbourne's New Domestic Water Supply?
Goulburn River downstream of Lake Eildon
Pipeline will bring water from the Goulburn River (top
yellow dot) to Sugarloaf Reservoir (bottom yellow dot), a distance of approximately
90km.
Potential new Melbourne water supply on Goulburn River
downstream from Lake Eildon highlighted in blue.
Same image showing extent of forests within catchment
area
April 2007: Image showing extent of native forests and
plantations in catchment. Yellow=hardwood plantations, light brown=pine plantations,
darker brown=pine plantations owned by Hancock
Victorian Plantations
April 2007: Images showing potential pesticide problem
areas within the catchment. Orange=Irrigated Pasture. Purple=Olive Plantations,
Other highlighted landuse includes orchards, vegetables, vineyards. Pale Blue
in this image represents dryland grazing which is by far the largest land use
within the catchment.
Closer image of preceeding map
Goulburn River about 200 metres upstream from the Killingworth
River Reserve (~5km north of Yea) which is the approximate location of the proposed
pumping station, which will pump water from the Goulburn, almost 100km south
to Sugarloaf Reservoir in north eastern Melbourne.
Goulburn River about 200 metres upstream from the Killingworth
River Reserve (~5km north of Yea) which is the approximate location of the proposed
pumping station. Switzerland Ranges in background.
Cow drinking from Goulburn River about 200m upstream
from where the new Melbourne Water offtake will be constructed. These properties
will need to be fenced off.
Grazing country about 1km upstream from Killingworth
River Reserve. Sheep and Cattle grazing appear to be the major landuse in the
catchment. Switzerland Ranges in distance.
Goulburn River about 3km upstream from potential offtake
Tributary of Goulburn River about 6km ne of Yea
Another view of grazing country which dominates Goulburn
River floodplain upstream of potential Sugarloaf offtake.
Bald hills heavily grazed south of Molesworth
Pine plantations located in Switzerland Ranges. This
planting is at Mount Concord about 4km north of Molesworth. Much of this plantation
is in the catchment of Home Creek. Plantations, along with irrigated pasture,
may well constitute the largest users of herbicides in the catchment, with hexazinone
being of major concern. Maps
of plantations in the region can be found here. Other pesticide concerns
could come from Olive Groves.
Goulburn River floodplains about 15km upstream of offtake
Looking north east from Acheron Cutting, over Goulburn
River and Mount Pleasant. Some more intensive agriculture starting to occur.
More grazing country looking east from Acheron Cutting
Irrigated pasture starts occurring on the Goulburn east of Molesworth.
This large irrigation enterprise is about 4km south east of Alexandra and
is watering instant lawn.
Same Site from Google Earth
Goulburn River just upstream from junction of Acheron
and Goulburn Rivers.
Grazing and grass cutting in close proximity to Goulburn River about
2km north west of Thornton
Same same from Google Earth
Typical 'bald' grazing country east of Merton
About 400 hectares of pine plantations are located just west of Cerberean
Range (Rubicon State Forest) owned by Cathedral Valley Softwoods. This view
is looking west into Acheron Valley about 6km east of Taggerty.
Maps
of plantations in the region can be found here.
The vast amount of pine located in the catchment is
owned by Hancock Victorian Plantations. This shows recent logging in Mohican
plantation about 4km north west of Buxton. These plantations use herbicides
including hexazinone.