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Conference Paper

Author
Whitmore, Ray
Title
Water for Ipswich
In
First Australasian Conference on Engineering Heritage 1994: Old Ways in a New Land; Preprints of Papers
Imprint
Institution of Engineers, Australia, Barton, Australian Capital Territory, 1994, pp. 71-75
ISBN/ISSN
0858256223
Url
https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.625415087494648
Abstract

Settlement began in earnest in Queensland after its official proclamation as a British colony in 1859. A basic need of all its townships was a reliable supply of clean drinking water, and the Imperial government was able to provide considerable assistance in developing suitable schemes. Unfortunately the tried and true technologies of the motherland did not always work out in the alien Queensland climate, resulting in systems that often required extensive on-the-spot modifications. Ipswich was the first Queensland township to adopt a pumped river-water supply and the paper describes the scheme, the difficulties that it met with, and the methods that were adopted to keep it in operation for some 45 years. The physical remains of the scheme are described and illustrated.

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