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Castella is a locality in Victoria, Australia. It lies to the east of Kinglake at the intersection of the
Melba Highway Melba Highway is a semi-rural highway that connects the outer eastern suburbs of Melbourne to the town of Yea, in Victoria's Upper Goulburn region. It is named after Dame Nellie Melba, a famed Australian opera singer of the early 20th century ...
and the Healesville Kinglake Road. The Castella Quarries produces sandstone and crushed rock. One of the quarries was used to dump the drillings from a tunnel under the
Toolangi State Forest The Toolangi State Forest region in southern Australia extends from Mount Monda in the south up to Murrindindi, Victoria, Murrindindi in the north and includes the township of Toolangi, Victoria, Toolangi. The forest is mainly eucalypt fore ...
. This tunnel is part of the Sugarloaf Pipeline, carrying freshwater to Melbourne from the
Goulburn River The Goulburn River, a major inland perennial river of the Goulburn Broken catchment, part of the Murray-Darling basin, is located in the Alpine, Northern Country/North Central, and Southern Riverina regions of the Australian state of Victor ...
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Towns in Victoria (state) Shire of Murrindindi {{Hume-geo-stub