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According to this plan all storm water from Parliament House, the State Library and Sydney Hospital (all on Macquarie Street) would be drained into the tunnels, treated, and then pumped back to storage tanks at the surface for use in non-potable water systems, saving an estimated 17 megalitres (3.7 × 10 ^ 6 imp gal; 4.5 × 10 ^ 6 US gal) each ...
3 tunnels Sydney Harbour Tunnel: Between Woolloomooloo and North Sydney under Sydney Harbour: Sydney Harbour Tunnel : Road: 2,800 9,200 [23] Sydney Harbour railway electricity tunnel: Between Birchgrove and Greenwich: Below Sydney Harbour: Power supply: 540 1,760: Approximate distance [24] [25] Sydney Metro Northwest: Between Bella Vista and ...
Pressure Tunnel and Shafts is a heritage-listed water supply system at Potts Hill, City of Canterbury-Bankstown, New South Wales, Australia. It was designed by the Water Board, which built the tunnel from 1921 to 1935. It is the third largest pressure tunnel in the world. The property is owned by Sydney Water (State Government).
Circular Quay and mouth of the Tank Stream, Sydney Cove, Frederick Garling Jr., 1839 Tank Stream on a November 2008 tour The Tank Stream is a heritage-listed former fresh water tributary of Sydney Cove and now tunnel and watercourse located in the Sydney central business district, in the City of Sydney local government area of New South Wales, Australia.
The whole length of the Tunnel was 3,700 metres (12,000 ft) and capable of holding 6.8 megalitres (1,500,000 imp gal) gallons and 15 days' supply of water. [1] Sydney Council took control of the Water Supply in 1842 and was responsible for the whole of the Lachlan Water Reserve.
The tunnel system was approved at an estimated cost of £15,150. [1] After Sydney's shelling in June 1942, this pushed the exigent to excavate the five interlinked tunnels and multiple chambers underneath the base's northern point. [4] A second tunnel system that runs all the way to Kings Cross exists, but little is known about it. [5]
It was devised by Dr John Bradfield (1867–1943), a Queensland born civil engineer, who also designed the Sydney Harbour Bridge and Brisbane's Story Bridge. [1] The scheme that Bradfield proposed in 1938 required large pipes, tunnels, pumps and dams. It involved diverting water from the upper reaches of the Tully, Herbert and Burdekin rivers. [2]
Busby's Bore, Sydney's second water supply, is a heritage-listed former water management facility located between Centennial Park and College Street, Surry Hills, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It was designed by John Busby and built from 1827 to 1837 by convict labour .