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Dight’s Falls to be rebuilt

Friday, November 16th, 2007

Update, 18 November: Here’s an article from The Age which suggests that the Channel Deepening Project may see toxic sludge disturbed by the dredging wash back up the 22 km long tidal estuary of the Yarra all the way up to Dight’s Falls, bringing foul smells with it.
Original article: Well, it’s not the most interesting [...]

History, Parks, Walks, Yarra Bend Park, Yarra River | 1 Comment

Best new website this century? Melbourne bike paths plotted on Google world

Thursday, July 26th, 2007

Now this is what I call a great inovation: Bikely.  It plots bike paths, and users’ favourite on-road bike routes, on a street directory, and lets you look at the map in three views: standard street directory, Google world satellite imagery, or the latter with key roads superimposed (‘hybrid view’). Check out the 10 km [...]

Cycling, Good as hell, Parks, Rides, Walks, Yarra Bend Park, Yarra River | 3 Comments

Oil slick on Yarra

Saturday, June 16th, 2007

There’s an oil slick on the Yarra River, from Abbotsford’s Johnston St bridge to Kew’s Fairfield Boat House, about 8 km. No one knows how it got there, but it is thought to result from more than 100 litres of lube oil entering the river. Read The Age here, News.com.au here, ABC here. How a [...]

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