Town Water
In 1864 the Borough of Creswick, just one year old, planned to establish a town water supply, and expected that this would be a profitable enterprise.
Not everyone was able to afford the water rates and have water connected to their premises. The water rates were high, as the printed schedule shows (see image below) and reticulated water was still a luxury in Creswick in the 1870s. People were using standpipes in the streets even when the water supply system had been extended to individual properties in their neighbourhood.
Cache notes are derived from the article entitled: Mud, Sludge and Town Water: Civic Action in Creswick’s Chinatown Provenance: The Journal of Public Record Office Victoria, issue no. 11, 2012. ISSN 1832-2522. Copyright © Elizabeth Denny.
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Steps to GZ
1. Refer to the Note: in Additional Waypoints section for each Waypoint below to calculate AB and CD.
2. Use the South coordinate for WP1 and add to its decimal extension the product of 10CD.
3. Use the East coordinate for WP2 and add to its decimal extension the product of 10AB.
4. Hence final coordinates are: South 37 25.(310+10xCD), East 143 53.(438+10xAB)