Corporate Body

South Australian Engineering and Water Supply Department

State of South Australia

From
South Australia, Australia
Functions
Public Utilities and Resources

Skip to

Timeline

 1836 - 1917 South Australian Surveyor General's Office and the Survey and Crown Lands Department
 1841 - 1867 South Australian Colonial Engineering and Architecture Departments
 1910 - 1923 South Australian Irrigation and Reclamation Works Department
       1867 - 1929 South Australian Engineer in Chief's and Engineering Departments
       1923 - 1930 South Australian Irrigation and Drainage Commission
              South Australian Engineering and Water Supply Department
                   1995 - South Australian Water Corporation

Related People

Published resources

Books

  • Hammerton, Marianne, Water South Australia: a History of the Engineering and Water Supply Department (Netley, S.A.: Wakefield Press, 1986), 331 pp. Details

Resources

See also

Ailie Smith

Created: 7 September 2001, Last modified: 1 May 2006

EOAS ID: biogs/A001434b.htm

Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
What do we mean by this?

Published by Swinburne University of Technology.
This Edition: 2024 November (Ballambar - Gariwerd calendar - early summer - season of butterflies)
Reference: http://www.bom.gov.au/iwk/calendars/gariwerd.shtml#ballambar
For earlier editions see the Internet Archive at: https://web.archive.org/web/*/www.eoas.info

The Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation uses the Online Heritage Resource Manager (OHRM), a relational data curation and web publication system developed by the eScholarship Research Centre and its predecessors at the University of Melbourne 1999-2020. The OHRM has been maintained by Gavan McCarthy since 2020.

Cite this page: https://www.eoas.info/biogs/A001434b.htm

"... the rengitj, as a visible mark or imprint on the land, is characterised as a place of origin, the repository of all names, as well as a kind of mapped visual expression of the connection between people and places which is to be carried out in the temporal sequence of the journey." Fanca Tamisari (1998) 'Body, Vision and Movement: In the footprints of the ancestors'. Oceania 68(4) p260