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Wurundjeri people
the Wurundjeri people used the Yarra river for growing Crops and trading goods with each other -
Treaty
John Batman and the Wurundjeri People meet, to sign a peace Treaty -
John Dight purchased land at Dight Falls
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Dight Constructs the first flour mill in Melbourne
John Dight Constructs the first steam powered flour Mill in Australia, Dight used the river water to Power his Mill, using a water wheel for those times when the river levels where low, He also Constructed a weir made out of stone -
the Dight family abandoned the flour mill
The Dight Family leave the flour mill business behind -
The Mill is under new ownership
Edwin Trennery bought the property where the original Mill wasl, he then subdivided the land -
New Mill
A Mill was put in place of the old one, under the name of `'Yarra Falls Roller Flour mills' 3 people where working on the construction site, Gillespie, Aitken and Scott . -
reconstruction
reconstruction started when parts of the timber weir fell apart due to floods -
Christmas Eve reconstruction
a breakage in the new weir stimulated another reconstruction and distribution of all the rocks on the far side of the weir -
concrete is added to the weir
Melbourne's water Company finally came to their senses and put Concrete down on the weir replacing the timber deck that used to lie there. resulting in the design that stands today -
Melbourne Water constructs a fishway
Melbourne Water realised that the weir was like a fence for the migrating fish so they constructed a rock fishway, so that the fish can now migrate efficiently and safely -
Today
Today the weir at Dight Falls helps to control the water levels at the Yarra River. -
the new fishway at Dight Falls
the Construction of the fishway ate Dight Falls is going to be a much more efficient way to get Migrating fish over to the Yarra other that using concrete it's much stable than the rock fishway which was made in 1993. The new fishway also known as the fish ladder because it'll help fish swim upstream is going to be the same shape as the old one just using Concrete. -
Future
I think that in the future Melbourne water will uncover new materials to make the weir more durable and sustainable. for Melbourne. But we'll never know what will happen in the future
