Date: 4th of May 2024
Rating: ★★★★★
This is one of Melbourne's best and oldest drains. It features one of the largest sections of bluestone drain in Victoria, with only Ballarat's drains beating it.
Entrance: 1.5m
Materials: Concrete, Redbrick, Bluestone
Shapes: Round, Box, Arch
The entrance to this one is tidal, muddy, and very stinky. It is a low 1.5m box for a few metres before opening up to a 2m RCP pipe, and then turns back into a large concrete box. There are usually a few eels through this section of the drain.
At the first junction room, downstream down the RBT leads to another outflow for the drain but I have only seen it from the outside, it is bluestone and very submerged.
After the last pit, the drain turns into this beautiful bluestone arch. It continues like this all the way to the waterfall at the end.
Just after the change, there is a small redbrick sidepipe that loops up further along.
At the end of the drain there is a waterfall that doesnt have rungs and a manhole that opens into a park above. Further down the drain past the waterfall it continues
