Wonder why Melbourne's inner west keeps flooding? It's because it was built on a reclaimed salt water lake that was used as a dumping ground by the city's first European colonists.
Wonder why Melbourne's inner west keeps flooding? It's because it was built on a reclaimed salt water lake that was used as a dumping ground by the city's first European colonists.
Wonder why Melbourne's inner west keeps flooding? It's because it was built on a reclaimed salt water lake that was used as a dumping ground by the city's first European colonists.
"To the west of what is now Melbourne's CBD existed what the early white settlers described as a saltwater lake.
"In 1835, John Batman described it as a marsh with 'a large lagoon' full of swans, duck and geese.
"It actually sounds quite delightful.
"The early European settlers utilised this marvellous natural feature the best way they knew how — by turning it into a dumping ground for waste from the settlement's slaughterhouses."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-07/melbourne-was-built-on-a-swamp-flood-history/101610910
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