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Melbourne Water

Melbourne's water
storages
are currently

34%

Rivers and Creeks

In this section

Waterways
  • Our role
    As the regional drainage, waterway and floodplain manager for the Port Phillip and Westernport region, improving our waterways, our areas of responsibility, who does what.
  • Our programs and projects
    We work with the community, councils and organisations on our river health, drainage and flood protection, water quality, land development, monitoring and research programs.
  • The rivers and creeks system
    How our rivers and creeks work, what are wetlands, water for the environment, history of our rivers and creeks.
  • Get involved
    We can all make a difference to the health of our rivers and creeks. Find out how you can get involved... tips, programs and more…
  • River Health
    How healthy are our rivers? Summary statistics, how we measure river condition and information on our Yarra, Werribee, Maribyrnong, Dandenong, Westernport and Mornington waterways.
  • Waterway Diverters
    Current waterway diversion status, stream flow management, pricing structure, forms and guidelines, graphs of waterway flow rates, updates for diverters, and Drought Response Plan questions and answers.
  • Rainfall and River level data
    Hourly updated data from about 160 of our field monitoring devices that record rainfall and river and creek water level readings.