Sep 17, 2020 · Melbourne’s Elizabeth Street was once a waterway known as Williams Creek. Today, the creek runs underground, but every now and then, it returns with a vengeance...

Buried below Melbourne’s Elizabeth St lies a body of water known by many names – at one time, William’s Creek. Today it is the city’s main stormwater drain – completely hidden from the public and the single largest contributor to pollution along the lower Yarra River – Williams Creek is sick.

HISTORY: WILLIAMS CREEK REVEALED - Williams Creek once flowed where Elizabeth Street CBD is now. It is no surprise that historical flood photos in Melbourne CBD often show Elizabeth Street. This is a low point and history shows it once was …

Oct 14, 2022 · Formerly “Williams Creek” and even earlier, speculated to have been used as an eel race by the local indigenous population. Elizabeth St is the topographic low point of the CBD, so gravity being what it is, most rainfall ends up there.

Aug 24, 2022 · Coming to Melbourne as an immigrant, Ms Zhou said discovering the city’s history and the underground Williams Creek waterway was “surprising” to hear and the reason she organised the activation.

Apr 6, 2009 · A reservation of the natural grass and gum-trees between Queen and Swanston street would have redeemed Melbourne up to the first rank of urban scenic effect and the riotous Williams might, with entire usefulness, have subsided …

Mar 17, 2015 · He is committed to the creation of sustainable, resilient, livable, and just cities, and after a PhD in ecology and statistics at Cornell he spent 10 years with The Nature …

Mar 5, 2015 · Reclaiming Williams Creek would mean digging up much of Elizabeth Street – potentially from the very top of the CBD right through to Flinders Street.

There is a painting of it: the ships are moored by Enterpize Park, so that would make William St and Queen St to their right and then the creek. You can see the outflow from one of the southbank bridges.

Williams creek which now runs under Elizabeth st was an early source of fresh water for the colony You can still see where it joins the Yarra river and...