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Dam

Type - Dam
Bunnerong Dam
Camden Weir
Cataract Dam
Cooks River dam
Engine Pond
Fullers Bridge weir
Lake Northam
Lake Parramatta Dam
Liverpool Weir
Mill Pond
Nepean Dam
Sugarworks dam
Sydenham drainage pit and pumping station No.001
Warragamba dam
Woronora Dam

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Dam

Bunnerong Dam

Water storage dam constructed as additional storage for the Botany Swamps Scheme. It was later filled in to form Bunnerong Park. The line of the dam wall became Bunnerong Road.

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Camden Weir

Low level dam used to create a pond on the Nepean River.

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Cataract Dam

The first dam built in the Upper Nepean Scheme, it provides water to the Macarthur and Illawarra regions, the Wollondilly Shire, and Sydney.

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Cooks River dam

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Dam constructed by convict labour at Tempe using quarried stone from the nearby cliffs. It allowed a road link to the city but quickly caused problems of pollution and flooding.

Engine Pond

Dam constructed by Simeon Lord on the watercourse draining into Botany Bay. It is now traversed by Southern Cross Drive just east of Sydney Airport runway.

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Fullers Bridge weir

Dam across the Lane Cover River near Fullers Bridge, which raised the level of the river and kept tidal flows out, making it no longer navigable west of the weir.

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Lake Northam

Pond in Victoria Park opposite Glebe Point Road which was originally used by travellers to wash down horses and carts.

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Lake Parramatta Dam

Dam constructed on Hunts Creek in 1855 which was the first arch dam built in Australia.

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Liverpool Weir

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Weir constructed by convict labour in 1836 to supply fresh water to the early European settlement of Liverpool. It divides river ecology in an artificial manner, and was a barrier to fish passage until a fishway was constructed in 1997.

Mill Pond

Dam constructed by Simeon Lord in the watercourse draining into Botany Bay beside what is now Southern Cross Drive.

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Nepean Dam

Dam built in 1935 to complete the Upper Nepean catchment. The wall is 81 metres high with a dam capacity of 70,000 megalitres.

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Sugarworks dam

Dam constructed across the Cooks River to provide fresh water for the boilers at the factory.

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Sydenham drainage pit and pumping station No.001

Also known as the Sydenham Stormwater Basin, this open air sandstone and brick lined pit was built in as the 1930s as part of the NSW State Government's Department of Public Works relief work program to prevent the surrounding area from flooding. It is sunk into the ground below sea level and is approximately 9 metres deep, 170 x 125 metres in area, and has a water capacity of 100 mega litres. The Pumping Station is a reinforced concrete building perched on concrete fins 12 metres high above one corner of the pit.

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Warragamba dam

Sydney's primary water source, located 65km west of Sydney in a narrow gorge on the Warragamba River.

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Woronora Dam

Dam which collects water from the catchment of the Woronora River, supplying water to the Sutherland Shire in Sydney's south. It covers over 4 square kilometres with a capacity of 71,790 megalitres.

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