Pest control in Yarra Junction
Yarra Junction is named for a tramway meeting a railway, and its station building is older than the town's post office.
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Ask for a quoteThe Little Yarra River at Yarra Junction. Photo: Nick Carson, CC BY-SA 3.0
A tramway and railway junction
The name comes from the meeting of the timber tramways and the Warburton railway, not of two rivers. The Powelltown Tramway met the main line here from 1913 to 1945. The station building was put up at Lilydale in 1888, moved here in 1914, and now houses the Upper Yarra Museum. Camp Eureka on Tarrango Road is on the Victorian Heritage Register.
Checked 25 October 2026 against Wikipedia: Yarra Junction.
Termites
The termite designation covers the whole of Yarra Ranges. New building work has to be protected. A house that is already up gets a timber pest inspection under AS 4349.3, which is mostly non-invasive. Termites has both standards.
Checked 25 October 2026 against Yarra Ranges Council: termites, Building Regulations 2018 (Vic), regs 150 and 151 (authorised version 031) and Standards Australia: AS 4349.3-2010.
Town streets and wet paddocks
Yarra Junction had 2,875 residents at the 2021 census, but land zoned for houses is only about a tenth of the suburb. Two thirds of it is green wedge and farming land, and about a seventh is marked on the planning maps as land subject to flooding.
Where water lies after rain, mosquitoes follow. The Department of Health's advice is to clear stagnant water from around the house and to avoid bites.
Checked 25 October 2026 against Wikipedia: Yarra Junction, Vicmap Planning, the state's zone and overlay maps (DataVic), measured across the suburb and Department of Health: mosquito-borne diseases.
The inn, the RSL and other kitchens
Cunningham's Irish Inn and the RSL both trade in town. A food business must take all practicable measures to keep pests out of its premises and to eradicate them if they get in, under clause 24 of the Food Standards Code's Standard 3.2.2. The Code doesn't itself require a pest contract. Spiders and insects covers cockroaches and the licence that treats them.
Checked 25 October 2026 against Wikipedia: Yarra Junction, Food Standards Code, Standard 3.2.2, clause 24 and Better Health Channel: cockroaches.
Around the junction
- Launching Place, Wesburn and Warburton
- The other towns on the Warburton Highway, under the same council.
- Gladysdale and Hoddles Creek
- To the south, with no land zoned for town houses at all. The council and the termite designation are the same.
Checked 25 October 2026 against Wikipedia: Yarra Junction and Vicmap Planning, the state's zone and overlay maps (DataVic), measured across the suburb.
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