Cocoroc, Victoria
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Cocoroc is a rural locality in Victoria
, Australia
, 44 km south-west from Melbourne's central business district
. Its Local Government Area is the City of Wyndham
.
Cocoroc's history starts in 1892 when the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works
established a sewage treatment plant on the western banks of the Werribee River
.
This area was isolated and too far from Melbourne, so a village was built to house the workers becoming the town of Cocoroc.
In 1910 300 people lived in Cocoroc. Cocoroc developed in the 1920s having a public hall and three primary schools; the first one was built earlier in 1894.
Today this town is all but gone, the name Cocoroc still survives, with the Werribee Sewage Farm
covering around 10,500 hectares and treating about 60% of Melbourne's sewage.
Victoria (Australia)
Victoria is the second most populous state in Australia. Geographically the smallest mainland state, Victoria is bordered by New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania on Boundary Islet to the north, west and south respectively....
, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
, 44 km south-west from Melbourne's central business district
Melbourne city centre
Melbourne City Centre is an area of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia. It is not to be confused with the larger local government area of the City of Melbourne...
. Its Local Government Area is the City of Wyndham
City of Wyndham
The City of Wyndham is a Local Government Area in Victoria, Australia, located in the outer south-western suburbs of Melbourne, between Melbourne and the regional city of Geelong. It has an area of and at the 2006 Census Wyndham had a population of 112,695....
.
Cocoroc's history starts in 1892 when the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works
Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works
The Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works was a public utility board in Melbourne, Australia set up to provide water supply, sewerage and sewage treatment functions for the city...
established a sewage treatment plant on the western banks of the Werribee River
Werribee River
The Werribee River is located on the plain west of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The headwaters of a tributary, the Lerderderg River, are north of Ballan near Daylesford and it flows across the basalt plain, through the suburb of Werribee to enter Port Phillip. A linear park follows the Werribee...
.
This area was isolated and too far from Melbourne, so a village was built to house the workers becoming the town of Cocoroc.
In 1910 300 people lived in Cocoroc. Cocoroc developed in the 1920s having a public hall and three primary schools; the first one was built earlier in 1894.
Today this town is all but gone, the name Cocoroc still survives, with the Werribee Sewage Farm
Werribee Sewage Farm
Werribee Sewage Farm or, more formally, the Western Treatment Plant of Melbourne Water, is an 110 km² sewage treatment farm adjacent to the town of Werribee, 30 km west of the city of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, on the coast of Port Phillip Bay...
covering around 10,500 hectares and treating about 60% of Melbourne's sewage.