Where is it?
The Sugarloaf Pipeline is 70km in length and links the Goulburn River near Yea with the Sugarloaf Reservoir, 35km east of Melbourne. Essentially, the Sugarloaf Pipeline travels along the Melba Highway from Yea to Yarra Glen. The Sugarloaf Pipeline also incorporates two pump stations, two large structural-steel tanks, a power substation and an inlet structure to feed the water into Sugarloaf Reservoir.
Now that the Sugarloaf Pipeline has been built and the earth reinstated over it, it is largely invisible to the casual observer. The Sugarloaf Pipeline Alliance is spending $21 million ensuring all farmland, waterways, road reserves and forests are reinstated to the condition in which we found them before construction. Responding to community concern, the Alliance has also designed the pump stations, power substation and tanks to blend in with their surrounds.
South of Yea along the Melba Highway, however, there are two pipe bridges over the Yea River at Devlin Bridge and Castella where the Sugarloaf Pipeline is visible.
