Carlo Catani

This blog is a tribute to Engineer, Carlo Catani (1852 -1918) Carlo worked for the Public Works Department of Victoria. His projects included draining the Koo Wee Rup and Moe Swamps, flood mitigation works on the Yarra River and the reclamation of the St Kilda foreshore. The gardens he designed at the end of Fitzroy Street were named after him as was the Catani arch bridge on the St Kilda foreshore. This blog covers Catani's professional and personal life. Heather Arnold

Carlo Catani

Dr Ferdinando Gagliardi (1843-1898)

Carlo attends a demonstration on the use of gelignite

Carlo and the Pental Island levee banks

Carlo and the Moonee Ponds Creek

Carlo defends his work on Red Bluff

Carlo and his colleagues on the Albert Park Committee of Management

William Davidson, Civil engineer and Chief Inspector of Public Works