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Aqueduct across the Cooks River, Marrickville 2...

Aqueduct across the Cooks River, Marrickville 22 April 2012

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Brainwood, Linda

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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

Rivers and Catchments

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.

Marrickville

Inner-western residential suburb with an industrial heritage on the Cooks River, named after the Marrick estate of Thomas Chalder which was subdivided in 1855. The post-Second World War period saw the influx of mainly non-English speaking people, attracted by the availability of factory work and cheap housing.

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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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