Mildura Lock 11 & Weir: 100 years young next August — so how do we celebrate it properly?

Photo Credit - The Chaffey Trail 

If you’ve lived in Mildura (or you’ve ever done the touristy loop along the riverfront), chances are you’ve stood on the lock gates and watched the Murray doing its thing and thought, “How good is this?”

Well here’s a milestone worth circling in the diary: Lock 11 and the Mildura Weir started construction in August 1923 and completed in 1927 — which means we’re coming up to 100 years since completion.