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Mount Crosby pumping station Complex is a landmark central to the area's identity, with the substantial industrial pumping station, weirs, bridge foundations juxtaposed against the otherwise vegetated riverbank vista from the west bank.
College's Crossing (also known as Colleges Crossing) is a low level bridge that crosses the Brisbane River at Chuwar, a suburb of Ipswich in South East Queensland, Australia. The road across the bridge is Mount Crosby Road. During major floods or water releases from the Wivenhoe Dam the road becomes impassable. [1]
In the 2011 census, the population of Mount Crosby was 1,728, 49.9% female and 50.1% male.The median age of the Mount Crosby population was 37 years of age. 74.2% of people living in Mount Crosby were born in Australia, compared to the national average of 69.8%; the next most common countries of birth were England 7.2%, South Africa 3.2%, New Zealand 2.9%, United States of America 0.9% ...
A bridge downstream of the Victoria Bridge was part of a larger plan, devised by Professor Roger Hawken of the University of Queensland in the 1920s, for a series of bridges over the Brisbane River to alleviate congestion on Victoria Bridge and to divert traffic away from the Brisbane central business district.
The nearby Mount Crosby Pumping Station is used to transport drinking water that is sourced from both the weir and the nearby Lake Manchester Dam, which was built shortly after the Mount Crosby Weir. Without an ongoing eradication program, water hyacinth weed can choke the waters behind the weir, all the way upstream to Fernvale. In 2009, the ...
1986 - Mount Crosby Interchange; 1986 - Glenore Grove to Gatton duplication Stage 1. 5.6 km of road between Glenore Grove and the Queensland Agricultural College was duplicated, and the second bridge over Laidley Creek at Crowley Vale was constructed. 1987 - Glenore Grove to Gatton duplication Stage 2.
The Key Bridge was hit by the Dali on March 26, 2024, after the ship lost power. The collapse sent seven workers into the Patapsco River, killing six of them. Another worker was on a portion of ...
The current concrete Victoria Bridge is the 4th to be built on the site, the original bridge collapsed after marine borers weakened its timber piles, and the second was destroyed in the 1893 flood. As of 2012 [update] the Brisbane River is crossed by 16 major bridges (counting the new second Gateway, now Sir Leo Hielscher Bridge), including the ...