At around 1877 people per square kilometre, Ringwood sites usually allow a planned weekend outage, which makes the program manageable. Ringwood sits near 123 metres. Substation rooms below ground level need drainage checked as part of any inspection.
Ringwood is about 25 kilometres from the CBD, where newer industrial estates have kiosk substations with reasonable access and documentation. Ringwood sits inside Maroondah, and the approvals that matter are the distributor's.
Being next to Croydon and Donvale means Ringwood is almost never a standalone trip for our crew. By the numbers: 19144 people, roughly 10.2 square kilometres, postcode 3134, inside Maroondah. That is Ringwood as of the 2021 census.
For what it is worth on site: In 2009, the State Government controversially approved the building of a nine-storey housing development near Ringwood Lake, without Council or public consultation. Development era predicts the age of the asset and whether any maintenance history exists for it. We are across Ringwood along with Croydon, Donvale, Heathmont and Mitcham, on the same rates and the same certificate.
Ringwood sits roughly 7.4 kilometres north-west of Boronia, where we are based. That distance is why a call here is answered from a van that is already in the area rather than from a call centre. Ringwood railway station anchors the suburb, and housing age in Ringwood tends to step newer the further you get from it.