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Flooding on the Yarra 
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An enormous piece of rock, which is located next to Crown Casino stopped a lot of water, which then often caused floods in Melbourne. The first flood in Melbourne was in1839. It caused the land south of the Yarra to be permanent swamp. A program of works was created in the late 1880s to help get rid of flooding around the rver. A considerable amount of rock was blasted which made the river wider and straighter. The removal of the major bend and lagoons upstream of Princes Bridge helped the river flow more directly to the ocean.

Between 1924 and 1929 the Melboune Metropolitian Board of Works took out 24,400 tonnes of rubbish in the Yarra River.

On November 29th, 1934, there was the biggest flood in our history caused by massive amounts of rain. Flood waters reached up to where the current Yarra Glen Post Office is. It was recorded to reach 14m high.