Castella, Victoria

Town in Victoria, Australia

37°31′29″S 145°26′00″E / 37.52472°S 145.43333°E / -37.52472; 145.43333Population268 (2016 census)^[1]Postcode(s)3777^[2]LGA(s)Shire of MurrindindiState electorate(s)Eildon Federal division(s)Indi^[2]

Localities around Castella:
Kinglake National Park
Kinglake	Castella
	Dixons Creek	Toolangi

Castella is a locality in Victoria, Australia. It lies to the east of Kinglake at the intersection of the Melba Highway and the Healesville Kinglake Road.^[3]

The Castella Quarries produces sandstone and crushed rock.^[4] One of the quarries was used to dump the drillings from a tunnel under the Toolangi State Forest.^[5] This tunnel is part of the Sugarloaf Pipeline, carrying freshwater to Melbourne from the Goulburn River.

References

^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Castella (State Suburb)". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 20 August 2020.
^ ^a ^b http://apps.aec.gov.au/esearch/LocalitySearchResults.aspx?filter=3777&filterby=Postcode Archived 2009-10-26 at the Wayback Machine Australian Electoral Commission
^ "CASTELLA Postcode (VIC)".
^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 October 2009. Retrieved 24 November 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ "Tunnelling projects protect Australian water supplies — Trenchless International — the official magazine of the ISTT, covering no-dig trenchless technology". Archived from the original on 31 October 2009. Retrieved 24 November 2009.