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Reservoir

Type - Reservoir
Botany Reservoir
Botany Swamps Scheme
Busby's Bore
Centennial Park Reservoir No.1
Chatswood Reservoirs
Crown Street reservoir
Paddington Reservoir
Paddington Reservoir Gardens
Petersham reservoir
Pipehead
Potts Hill Reservoir No.1
Potts Hill Reservoir No.2
Prospect Reservoir
Upper Nepean Scheme

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Reservoir

Botany Reservoir

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Reservoir built on the site of Simeon Lord's Engine Pond to augment the Botany Bay Swamps Scheme. The Botany pumping station on the western edge of the reservoir delivered water to the city.

Botany Swamps Scheme

Water supply system established in 1855 by the Water Board on 75 acres of land resumed from Simeon Lord. It was to support the expansion of the city from the 1850s to the 1870s.

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Busby's Bore

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A convict-built 3.6-kilometre tunnel that brought water to Sydney from 1830.

Centennial Park Reservoir No.1

Reservoir constructed on the northern boundary of Centennial Park to provide a larger and more elevated reserve for the urban water supply. It continues to operate at full capacity, augmented by a second reservoir built in 1925.

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Chatswood Reservoirs

Steel riveted water tanks which are historically significant for their construction technique and materials and their operation within the North Shore Water Supply scheme. Their construction allowed the increased population of the north shore which came with the expansion of the rail system.

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Crown Street reservoir

Completed in 1859, Crown Street reservoir is the oldest working reservoir in Australia. Built from special bricks imported from England with wooden columns and a fire-proof jack-arch roof, it was part of the early Botany Swamps water scheme and still supplies water, now from Warragamba Dam, to the inner city of Sydney.

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Paddington Reservoir

Reservoir constructed as part of Sydney's water supply system to get water from the Botany Swamps Scheme to the urban area. It was decommissioned in 1899 and served as garage and workshop until collapsing in 1991. In 2009 it opened as a sunken garden and cultural precinct.

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Paddington Reservoir Gardens

Urban garden and cultural precinct within the former water reservoir chambers. Once an integral part of Sydney's first water supply system it was decommissioned in late nineteenth century and used for storage and as a garage before conversion to a cultural precinct.

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Petersham reservoir

Covered water reservoir commissioned to supply western Sydney and Illawarra suburbs after the completion of the Upper Nepean Scheme. It was integrated into an elevated reservoir on the same site in 1965.

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Pipehead

Water basin or reservoir at Guildford which received water along the Lower Prospect Canal from Prospect reservoir.

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Potts Hill Reservoir No.1

Reservoir constructed in 1888 as part of the Upper Nepean Scheme to respond to the daily water demands of the city.

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Potts Hill Reservoir No.2

Reservoir constructed in 1923 as part of the Upper Nepean Scheme to increase the ability of the Scheme to respond to the daily demand fluctuations of the city. It has twice the capacity of the No.1 reservoir and remains an integral part of Sydney's water supply system.

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Prospect Reservoir

First earthen embankment dam completed to hold water from firstly, the Nepean River and then after 1940, Warragamba Dam.

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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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