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Water for gold! : The fight to quench Central Victoria's goldfields / Geoffrey Russell.

Title
Water for gold! : The fight to quench Central Victoria's goldfields / Geoffrey Russell.
Author
Russell, Geoffrey Brain.
Publication
North Melbourne, Vic. : Australian Scholarly Publishing, c2009.

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Description
xiii, 288 p. : ill. maps, ports.; 25 cm.
Summary
This book documents the fascinating 27 year long battle to slake Central Victoria's thirst by building the Coliban system of waterworks, an engineering marvel that still supplies Bendigo and Castlemaine to this day.
Subject
  • 1851-1891
  • Gold mines and mining > Victoria
  • Water-supply > Bendigo (Vic.) > History
  • Water-supply > Coliban River Region (Vic.) > History
  • Water resources development > Bendigo (Vic.) > History
  • Land use, Rural > Bendigo (Vic.)
Genre/Form
  • doctoral dissertations.
  • dissertations.
  • masters theses.
  • theses.
  • Academic theses
  • History
  • Thèses et écrits académiques.
Note
  • Includes index.
Thesis (note)
  • Orignally published as a Thesis (Ph.D.) -- La Trobe University, 2007.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 251-257.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
  • 9781921509391
  • 1921509392
OCLC
319055934
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library