The West Melbourne Swamp and the History of the Yarra River Victoria Australia

For some reason this morning, I had an urge to trace the Moonee Ponds Creek on Melway to its outlet as the most southern part of the creek I remember seeing was near Macaulay Station where it sometimes flooded during the 1950's. This got me onto the West Melbourne Swamp. The Wikipedia entry mentioned the pumping station on Brown's Hill but didn't mention where the hill is. It remains at Melway 43 A5, north of Dynon Rd near Lloyd St, but is not labelled on the map.

Then I struck gold, a blog published by the State Library of Victoria, replete with maps.
THE BLOG

One detail that is missing is the connection of Melbourne's former waterfall (near William St) with the construction of the Coode Canal. It may have been in BEARBRASS or EARLY MELBOURNE that I saw the statement that the stone blasted to remove the waterfall was used to line the Coode Canal and naturally assumed that both projects were almost simultaneous. The Melbourne Water story of the Yarra did not mention such use of the stone and seemed to indicate that the blasting took place about a decade before work started on the canal, so I tried another article,ALSO WITH MAPS, which indicates that the rock ledge was not blasted till the 1880's.
COODE'S CANAL

The Yarra in the Docklands area was originally lined with wharves up to the rock ledge and later only up to Spencer St where the TURNING BASIN was a feature of the Yarra. It was at a surprisingly late juncture that the bridge linking Spencer St to Clarendon St , South Melbourne was suggested by former South Melbourne footballer, Morley Kidgell, president of the Carriers' Association.
NEW BRIDGE OVER YARRA. Petition by Carriers.
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) Saturday 2 July 1921 p 16 Article
... NEW BRIDGE OVER YARRA. Petition by Carriers. At the annual meeting' of the Master Carriers ... ' Association of' Victoria, held on Thursday evening, the president (Mr. H. Morley Kidgell) said that the new

While few pioneers are mentioned in these articles, family (and professional) historians will find them invaluable in understanding claims made in family folklore and historical articles such as:
Grandpa said that after being evicted, they spent most of the 1930's at Dudley Flats;
John Batman had not noticed the Yarra River during his exploration up the Saltwater River (John Daniel's
BATMAN'S ROUTE