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6 foot pipeline built as part of the network to ensure supply of water to Sydney c1888

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Harold Arthur Blomfield
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(Courtesy of Charles Blomfield, Wagga Wagga)

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Blomfield, Harold Arthur

Private collection

Water supply

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.

Upper Nepean Scheme

Dams and canals constructed on the Nepean and Cataract Rivers after a Royal Commission in 1867 sought a solution to Sydney's water shortages. The scheme remains in use today.

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Hudson Brothers' Temporary Scheme

Water supply scheme hastily constructed to respond to severe drought in 1885. It consisted of 16 dams, over 3 kilometres of timber fluming or open watercourse on wooden trestles, across creeks and railway lines to Botany Bay Swamp Scheme from the half finished Upper Nepean Scheme.

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