The Swamp Commission Scheme - William Lockart Morton's Carrum Swamp Drainage Scheme

William Lockart Morton's Carrum Swamp Drainage Scheme


In the early days of settlement in Victoria, there were large pockets of land that were swamplands.  They could not be used for grazing, except in the summer time.  In the winter, with the rain, there was a boggy wet mass of land. The Government of Victoria, set up a Swamp Commission to look into the reclamation of these areas. This is part of that time and in particular, the story of the Carrum Carrum Swamp.

Carrum Carrum Swamp


There was a pocket of water that extended from an area around the Mordialloc Creek all the way down to Frankston and extended as far east as Dandenong.  For people to get to Frankston they had to travel around this big wet area, which added considerable time to their journey.

In a newspaper column, appears some scant information about the commission underway to decide how to treat the flooding that prevented the land to be used to it's best purpose: 

"From an advertisement in another column we

observe that the professional board appointed to
decide upon the applications for the reclamation of
swamps, will sit on Wednesday, the 18th inst., and
take into consideration the case of the Carrum
Swamp, applied for by L. Morton and others; and
that of Francis Brown, for the West Melbourne
Swamp."

The Age - Monday 16 October 1865 Page 5



This Video Explains About Carrum Carrum Swamp

https://youtu.be/U0J3OrL8Nqc

I will be discussing the Carrum Carrum Swamp further in my next blog.

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