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Sketches of the Southern Sydney Sewerage System...

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Sketches of the Southern Sydney Sewerage System 1892

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Servicing Sydney's thirst

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Sewer

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Cooks River Sheas Creek

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Alexandria Arncliffe Botany Kyeemagh Mascot Rockdale

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Botany sewage farm Southern and Western Suburbs Ocean Outfall Sewer

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Servicing Sydney's thirst

Increasing population and industry saw the Cooks River transformed from a pristine natural watercourse into a highly modified and polluted river

Sewer

Cooks River

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River that flows through south-west Sydney, starting at Graf Park, Yagoona, through to Botany Bay at Kyeemagh. The river was extensively polluted by industry and its course was changed to accommodate the runways of Sydney Airport.

Sheas Creek

Creek now confined to a stormwater channel flowing from Alexandria into the Alexandra Canal.

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Alexandria

Largely industrial inner-city suburb located south of Sydney's central business district, named after Princess Alexandra, wife of Edward, Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII). By the 1940s, it was the nation's largest industrial district, and called itself the "Birmingham of Australia".

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Arncliffe

Largely residential southern suburb, close to Sydney Airport and bordering Wolli Creek. It was named after a village in North Yorkshire, England.

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Botany

Industrial and residential suburb on the northern shore of Botany Bay, immediately east of Sydney Airport. Originally seen as a country retreat, it saw industry flourish in the post-Second World War era.

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Kyeemagh

Residential suburb on the southern side of the Cooks River near Sydney Airport. Its name, meaning 'beautiful dawn', was suggested by the New South Wales Polo Association in 1928 as the name of its new Polo Ground.

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Mascot

Industrial, commercial and residential suburb on the north-western side of Botany Bay. It is the location of Sydney Airport, built on the site of Ascot Racecourse and opened in 1920.

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Rockdale

Southern residential suburb of located west of Botany Bay, which is built on the country of the Cadigal, Gweagal and Bidjigal people. Rockdale is highly multicultural, with communities of Chinese, Macedonian, Greek and Arabic heritage, among others.

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Southern and Western Suburbs Ocean Outfall Sewer

Sewerage drainage system at Malabar which was first proposed in 1877 and completed in 1916.

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Botany sewage farm

Sewage farm constructed at Webb's Grant, a sand spit on the southern side of the Cooks River mouth to relieve the critical sanitary situation in the southern and western suburbs.

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