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Conference Paper

Author
Kinstler, F. L.
Title
Dams in Early Australia
In
9th National Conference on Engineering Heritage: Proceedings
Imprint
Institution of Engineers, Australia, Melbourne, Victoria, 1998, pp. 75-87
ISBN/ISSN
1858256843
Url
https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.545982731020942
Abstract

Dams were built from early times in Australia. Several Aboriginal built dams were discovered by early explorers. After European settlement many water-mills requiring dams were built particularly at Parramatta and Hobart. In Brisbane and Melbourne water-supply dams were needed within a few years of settlement. Finally small irrigation dams proliferated in Tasmania, followed there by the first irrigation storage dams. Four of the famous names of early Australian history were associated with the dams - NSW Governor Philip Gidley King, Tasmanian Lieut-Governor George Arthur, the Rev. Samuel Marsden, and John MacArthur. Also many of the not so famous - ex-convict Nathaniel Lucas and engineers Peter Degraves, Henry Revelry and Alexander Clark. The period covered by the paper has been arbitrarily set as before 1850.

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