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Whitehorse Range - Magpie- Sewering Ballarat

  Star ( Vic.:  1865 - 1924), Friday 26 January 1923, page 1   Sewering  Ballarat   What is Being Done Interesting Visit First Outfall Sewer Pipe Laid   Ballarat, as a city, although it is aware that it is being sewered, and will in due time see the end of the antiquated system of “sanitation" has ruled for so many years, has as. 1 yet but' little idea of how the work is being carried out: it does not know, for instance, that in order to carry the sewerage down to the treatment works between. Buninyong and Sebastopol, the Yarrowee has to be funnelled under in three places. Probably it does not know that a series of shafts equipped with the old-fashioned windlasses has been sunk along a parallel course of the creek in order to test the ground, and that the out-fall sewer has, in the hands of the contractors, made such good progress that its direction is plainly indicated, either by open cuts or tunnels. Nor probably, is Ballarat aware how many pipes, ranging from 32 inch down w