Published Resources Details
Conference Paper
- Title
- Dams of the Royal National Park, Loftus, New South Wales
- In
- Engineering Heritage Matters: Conference Papers of the 12th National Conference on Engineering Heritage, Toowoomba, 29 September to 1 October 2003
- Imprint
- Engineers Australia, Barton, Australian Capital Territory, 2003, pp. 91-94
- ISBN/ISSN
- 064642775X
- Url
- https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.335481942927777
- Abstract
From its founding in April 1879 the Royal National Park has become owner of at least four dams in the western part of the Park. A masonry dam and a stone pitched, earthen dam were constmcted at Loftus in the 1880s in an area cleared of wild scrub to make a recreation park, and served as water supplies for the Easter military encampments of the New South Wales Field Artillery, Cavalry and Infantry between 1886-1890. At Heathcote and Waterfall, two concrete dams were constructed to supply water for the Illawarra railway. These dams exhibit a contrast in design from a buttressed gravity dam with scour facilities to an arch dam without scour facilities. The four dams straddle the period from the demise of masonry and the introduction of concrete as engineering materials and remain as a sad heritage to an earlier period of growth and development.
Related Published resources
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- Engineering Heritage Matters: Conference Papers of the 12th National Conference on Engineering Heritage, Toowoomba, 29 Sept to 1 Oct 2003 edited by Sheridan, Norman (Barton, Australian Capital Territory: Engineers Australia, 2003), 183 pp, https://search.informit.org/doi/book/10.3316/informit.064642775X. Details