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Dethridge Irrigation Wheel and Water Channel

Location Fisken Street MADDINGLEY, MOORABOOL SHIRE Level Included in Heritage Overlay

[1/1] Dethridge Irrigation Wheel

Statement of Significance

A characteristic irrigation wheel installed within the agricultural irrigation system over the Werribee and Lerderderg Rivers alluvial plain farmlands. They were invented by Charles Dethridge in c1923(?) This wheel is an example. The surviving system of channels and wheels in general are of local significance, for their association with the development of agriculture and for the influence of the reticulation of water on agriculture and housing development in Bacchus Marsh.