The Greenvale Reservoir is a reservoir formed by the Greenvale Dam, an earth-filled embankment dam across the upper Yuroke Creek, also fed by an off-stream storage, located in the suburb of Greenvale and to the west of Roxburgh Park, in the northern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Completed in 1973, the impoundment serves as a source of supply of potable water for Greater Metropolitan Melbourne.
The reservoir and dam is operated by Melbourne Water.
Dam and reservoir overview The earth-filled dam wall is high and long. When full, the resultant reservoir has a storage capacity of and covers , drawn from a catchment area of , with an additional serving as the catchment for the off-stream storage. The uncontrolled spillway has a discharge capacity of .
Reservoir
In addition to damming the Yuroke Creek, a major tributary of the Moonee Ponds Creek, the reservoir is fed by an aqueduct from the Silvan Reservoir. It was opened on 18 April 1973 and was designed to supply drinking water to Melbourne's northern and western suburbs.
The Greenvale Reservoir Park, located adjacent to the south and west of the dam wall, contains picnic tables, a playground and barbecues, and is managed by Parks Victoria. The urban park was temporarily closed in 2014, because of the need for work to strengthen the dam wall. Despite the remedial work being completed, most of the park remained closed, despite occasional promises to reopen it, until December 2025 when the full extent of the park was reopened.
See also
List of reservoirs and dams in Victoria
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