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Making the new sewer in Pitt Street 1857

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Making the new sewer in Pitt Street 1857

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Mason, Walter G

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Planning

From an accidental city without a plan, Sydney has become a city with many plans. The early town grew without controls, but later governments tried to regulate building and development, and keep up with necessary services and infrastructure. From 1900, resumptions, zoning and regulation were used to shape the city and its suburbs.

Sanitation

Sewer

Drains

Water

Water supply

Rivers and Catchments

Tank Stream

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The fresh water course which supplied the fledgling colony, emptying into Sydney Cove. It was named for three storage tanks which were constructed in the sandstone beside the stream during a drought in 1790. By 1828 the stream had been polluted to such an extent that it could no longer be used as a source of water and was diverted into a sewer, and by the 1870s it had been completely covered. The Tank Stream still flows in a covered storm water drain.

Sydney Water

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Organisation responsible for the maintenance and extension of Sydney's water supply, formed in 1880 when these functions were taken from the Sydney City Council. Reformed a number of times by legislation, the organisation was corporatised in 1995 but remains state-owned.