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Glebe Island is Sydney's last remaining deepwater port able to supply the City's ongoing demand for dry bulk goods such as sugar, gypsum and cement. [26] Most of Sydney's port infrastructure has moved south to Botany Bay since the construction of the first container terminals there in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Includes the deep-water wharves at Cape Lambert; Point Samson and Cossack Port Warrender 14°32′S 125°53′E / 14.533°S 125.883°E / -14.533; 125
With the advent of containerisation in the late 1950s it became clear that Sydney would require additional port facilities to cater for new cargo types. In the 1960s the government agency responsible for ports, the Maritime Services Board , recommended that a new port complex be developed in the northern part of Botany Bay adjacent to Sydney ...
Warragamba Dam is the main source of water supply for Sydney. More than four million people in Sydney, the Illawarra, the Blue Mountains and the Southern Highlands rely on the catchments of the Warragamba, Upper Nepean, Blue Mountains, Shoalhaven, and Woronora river systems to supply their drinking water.
Newcastle Port Corporation (NPC) was established on 1 July 1995 with the corporatisation of the Hunter Ports Authority, a subsidiary of the Maritime Services Board. [2] In May 2013, the NSW Government sold 99 year leases over Port Botany and Port Kembla to a consortium of Industry Funds Management, AustralianSuper, QSuper and Tawreed Investments. [3]
In recent years, water control structures have been installed to assist with regulation of water levels in the canal and to cater for varying flow rates. [4] It is estimated that the Upper Nepean System and, hence, the Upper Canal System, supplies in the range of 20 to 40 per cent of Sydney's daily demand for potable water. [3]
The Parramatta River is an intermediate tide-dominated, drowned valley estuary [2] located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.With an average depth of 5.1 metres (17 ft), [3] the Parramatta River is the main tributary of Sydney Harbour, a branch of Port Jackson.
As originally built, the Upper Nepean Scheme was capable of supporting an estimated population of 540,000. By 1902, Sydney had a population of 523,000 and was again in the grip of a severe drought. A Royal Commission appointed to report on Sydney's water supply recommended a dam on the Cataract River and construction commenced in the same year.