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Botany Pumping Station - interior showing ground floor

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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

Water supply

Botany Pumping Station

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Pumping station with three steam powered pumps constructed to pump water to reservoirs at Crown Street and Paddington from 1859. Remains of the building can still be seen beside General Holmes Drive, Botany.