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Would you take a dip in the Yarra? Bold plan to make Melbourne’s ‘number one drain’ SWIMMABLE again

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Would you take a dip in the Yarra? Bold plan to make Melbourne’s ‘number one drain’ SWIMMABLE again almost 60 years after pollution made it unsafe

  • Melbourne’s Yarra River has long had a reputation as being heavily polluted 
  • A bold new development wants to create a recreational swimming destination 
  • The community led Yarra Pool project is gaining increased public support 

By Brett Lackey For Daily Mail Australia

Published: 01:16 EST, 2 January 2020 | Updated: 03:16 EST, 2 January 2020

Tennis champion Jim Courier famously jumped into Melbourne’s Yarra River after winning the Australian Open in 1992 – and was sick for a week. 

The brown river meandering through the CBD has a long reputation as polluted, but a new development is planning to make it a destination for swimmers again. 

A community led push for the initiative, the Yarra Pool, aims to make the river a recreation hotspot.

The project combines lap lanes with surrounding wetlands and parklands.

Local groups such as Rotoract, Ocean CleanX, and the Cleanwater Group frequently hold clean ups of the river

Local groups such as Rotoract, Ocean CleanX, and the Cleanwater Group frequently hold clean ups of the river 

But locals aren’t so sure.

‘On old Melbourne Metropolitan Board of Works maps it used to be called Melbourne’s number one drain – without irony,’ Yarra Riverkeeper Andrew Kelly told The Age.   

The brown river meandering through the CBD has long had a reputation as polluted but a new development is planning to make it a destination for swimmers

The brown river meandering through the CBD has long had a reputation as polluted but a new development is planning to make it a destination for swimmers 

ITEMS FOUND IN ONE MONTHLY CLEAN UP OF THE YARRA

– 1,000 cigarette butts

– 2 condoms

– 5 syringes

– 1 bike

– 1 AFL brand new ball

– 5 tennis balls

– 60 chips & confectionery items

– 34 PET drink containers

– 100 bottle caps & lids

– 400 plastic packaging items

– 100 straws

– 20 cups & plates

– 400 plastic pieces

– 18 alcoholic beverage bottles

– 100 pieces of glass

– 10 perfume bottles

– 10 balloons

– 60 fast-food packaging

– 60 napkins & tissues

– 100 small papers

– 60 bottle caps

– 60 foil and confectionery wrappers 

Source: Clean Up Australia Day  

Volunteer groups such as Rotoract, Ocean CleanX, and the Cleanwater Group frequently hold clean ups of the river.   

Among the items found during one monthly clean up were a push bike, 18 alcohol bottles, and an AFL ball. 

The city is slowly starting to take a more proactive approach to making the river an attraction. 

Arbory Afloat – a bar and restaurant that floats on the Yarra – won last year’s Melbourne Award for Hospitality 

The Inflatable Regatta has also become a yearly event that sees thousands of locals and tourists paddling down the river towards a festival style party at the course’s finish. 

‘People will put a coffee shop up in a shoe box in Melbourne but the Yarra is this wonderful under-utilised resource,’ Inflatable Regatta founder Courtney Carthy told the publication.  

Locals hope the project would be a catalyst for cleaning up the river and it was a feature of Melbourne Design Week in 2019. 

The designers say the project’s inspiration is the ‘global movement towards reviving urban river swimming and the growing demand for healthy waterways’.  

Among the items found during one monthly clean up were a push bike, 18 alcohol bottles, and an AFL ball

Among the items found during one monthly clean up were a push bike, 18 alcohol bottles, and an AFL ball 

The Yarra Pool initiative design concept hopes to turn the Yarra into a recreation hotspot

The Yarra Pool initiative design concept hopes to turn the Yarra into a recreation hotspot 

The Inflatable Regatta has also become a yearly event that sees thousands of locals and tourists paddling down the river towards a festival style party at the course's finish

The Inflatable Regatta has also become a yearly event that sees thousands of locals and tourists paddling down the river towards a festival style party at the course’s finish 

‘Our ultimate goal is to create a swimmable Yarra River and introduce back all the recreational activities that used to happen,’ Yarra Pools president Felicity Watson said. 

At this stage the project is yet to receive official backing or funding from local or state government. 

The Yarra River Protection Act was passed by the Victorian parliament in 2017, however, which called for a holistic approach to cleaning up the river. 

The Yarra River Protection Act was passed by the Victorian parliament in 2017, however, which called for a holistic approach to cleaning up the river

The Yarra River Protection Act was passed by the Victorian parliament in 2017, however, which called for a holistic approach to cleaning up the river 

 

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