Related Research Articles
Charles Yelverton O'Connor,, was an Irish engineer who is best known for his work in Western Australia, especially the construction of Fremantle Harbour, thought to be impossible, and the Goldfields Water Supply Scheme.
Northam is a town in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia, situated at the confluence of the Avon and Mortlock Rivers. It is the largest town and regional centre in the Avon Valley region of the Central Wheatbelt. It is located approximately 97 kilometres north east of Perth, the capital city of Western Australia. At the time of the 2021 census, Northam had a population of 6,679.
Leonora is a town in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia, located 833 kilometres (518 mi) northeast of the state capital, Perth, and 237 kilometres (147 mi) north of the city of Kalgoorlie.
Merredin is a town in Western Australia, located in the central Wheatbelt roughly midway between Perth and Kalgoorlie, on Route 94, Great Eastern Highway. It is located on the route of the Goldfields Water Supply Scheme, and as a result is also on the Golden Pipeline Heritage Trail.
Cunderdin is a town located in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia 156 km east of Perth, along the Great Eastern Highway. Due to it being on the route of the Goldfields Water Supply Scheme it is also on the Golden Pipeline Heritage Trail. It is a rural community consisting of a district high school and an agricultural college.
Bullabulling is a small townsite located 526 km (327 mi) east of Perth, Western Australia on the Great Eastern Highway in the Goldfields-Esperance region.
Mundaring Weir is a concrete gravity dam located 39 kilometres (24 mi) from Perth, Western Australia in the Darling Scarp. The dam and reservoir form the boundary between the suburbs of Reservoir and Sawyers Valley. The dam impounds the Helena River.
The Barracks Arch is located on the corner of Malcolm and Elder Streets, at the western end of St Georges Terrace in Perth, Western Australia.
The Sunday Times is a tabloid Sunday newspaper published by Seven West Media, in Perth and distributed throughout Western Australia. Founded as The West Australian Sunday Times, it was renamed The Sunday Times from 30 March 1902.
The Goldfields Water Supply Scheme is a pipeline and dam project that delivers potable water from Mundaring Weir in Perth to communities in Western Australia's Eastern Goldfields, particularly Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie. The project was commissioned in 1896 and completed in 1903.
Water Corporation is the principal supplier of water, wastewater and drainage services throughout the state of Western Australia. It is the seventh successive agency to deal with the services in Perth, Western Australia.
Ora Banda is a townsite and locality in the Eastern Goldfields of Western Australia located 66 kilometres (41 mi) north-west of Kalgoorlie. The town name is Spanish meaning "band of gold". It includes several operational mines and at the 2016 Australian census had a population of eight people.
Bulong is an abandoned town in Western Australia located 580 kilometres (360 mi) east of Perth in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia.
Golden Pipeline Heritage Trail was a project conducted by the National Trust of Western Australia along the Goldfields Water Supply Scheme pipeline at the time the pipeline was being celebrated for its 100 years of operation.
The Morgan – Whyalla pipeline was an engineering project undertaken by the South Australian Government in 1940 to bring water from Morgan on the River Murray to the industrial city of Whyalla. A second pipeline, by a divergent route, was laid in the 1960s.
Yerbillon, Western Australia was the location of Number 5 Pumping station on the Goldfields Water Supply Scheme, and is the location of the current pumping station number 11 on the pipeline.
Ghouli, Western Australia was the location of Number 6 Pumping station on the Goldfields Water Supply Scheme, and is the location of the current pumping station number 14 on the pipeline.
Gilgai, Western Australia was the location of Number 7 Pumping station on the Goldfields Water Supply Scheme
Mundaring Weir Hotel, is located in Mundaring, Western Australia.
Richard Gordon Hartley was an Australian civil engineer, and a historian of the mining and engineering industry.
References
- ↑ No.8 Pumping Station, Dedari, 11/11/02, 1900, retrieved 12 October 2016
- ↑ Campbell, R. McK; National Trust of Australia (W.A.) (1995), Goldfields water supply no. 8 steam pumping station at Dedari, Distributed by the National Trust of W.A.], retrieved 12 October 2016
- ↑ Millea, Frank; Hartley, Richard G; Goldfields and Agricultural Water Supply History Project; Water Corporation of Western Australia (2002), [Interview with Frank Millea] , retrieved 18 October 2016
- ↑ Taylor, Don; Hartley, Richard G; Goldfields and Agricultural Water Supply History Project; Water Corporation of Western Australia (2002), [Interview with Don Taylor] , retrieved 12 October 2016