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Report submitting the Annual Report of the proceedings under the Water and Sewerage Acts, 1873

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Unique IDA-00435252SeriesReports of the Finance Committee I, 1857-1898 [Municipal Council of Sydney]DateBetween 1st January 1873 and 9th March 1874Date qualifierexactFormatVolume - Leather BoundDescriptionReport of the Finance Committee submitting the Seventeenth Annual Report of the proceedings of the Municipal Council in 1873 under the Water and Sewerage Acts. Appended: Draft of the Report - Water: Engines and machinery have worked continuously except when Reservoirs full and have been in efficient working order; Advantage taken of efficient working of the Lachlan Swamp Tunnel to repair foundations of the Eastern and Middle Engines; two fractures to 30 inch main near Botany Engine House were quickly repaired; details given of quantity of water pumped; repairs to the Engine House and the effective working of the Tunnel have brought about a drop in the consumption of coal; construction of new reservoirs and embankments at the head of the Lachlan Swamp; enlargement of the Engine Pond continued; diversion of Black Water Creek is continuing; annual contracts satisfactorily carried out; quantities of pipes laid, work on Main in Kensington St, total number of houses receiving and paying for water is 19,486. - Sewerage: Main sewers with the exception of the brick sewer in Bridge Street have been in good working order; additions to the main sewers were completed in the southern section of the City (Irving, Gipps Streets); additional 435 houses connected making a total of 6902 houses connected to mains; more stoneware pipe drains laid; a silt pit constructed on the Market Wharf and at Lime Street; junctions and manholes at Liverpool & Palmer Sts and Liverpool & Elizabeth Sts; 30 feet of the Tank Stream Sewer re-covered with timber in Pitt Street near Queen's Wharf. - Financial: Statements of receipts and Expenditure on Sewerage and Water Funds were presented. Appendix A: Watermains laid during 1873 (street or location, pipes, yards); Appendix B: Stoneware sewers laid during 1873 (street or location, pipes, feet.) ppendix A: Watermains laid during 1873 (street or location, pipes, yards); locations: Devonshire Street to Railway Station; Cowper Wharf, Woolloomooloo; Rose St; Fitroy & Regent Sts; Victoria St; Judge St; Wallis Lane; Dowling St; Harris St between William and Macarthur Sts; Junction Lane; Little George St; Mary St; Harris & Fig Sts; Exchange Buildings; Eastern Market, Woolloomooloo; Castlemaine Brewery; Messrs Farmer & Co, Pitt St; Fitzroy St; Liverpool St East & Upper Dowling St; Goulburn St; Upper William St; Harrington St; Australia St; Derwent St; Camperdown Road west; Helena Terrace, Pyrmont; Camperdown Road east; Little Bourke & Bloomfield Sts; Woolloomooloo St; Victoria St; Mount Vernon St Glebe; Pyrmont Bridge Rd; Thomson St; Foveaux St; Missenden Rd; Macquarie St north; Riley St; Bourke St; Camperdown Rd; Forbes, Palmer & Woolloomooloo St; Kent St north; George St north; George St between King and Market Sts; Gipps St; Appendix B: Stoneware sewers laid during 1873. Appendix B: Stoneware sewers laid during 1873 (street or location, pipes, feet) : locations: Thomas St through Barkers Mills; Junction St between Palmer and Bourke Sts; Belmore Rd off Pitt St south; Prince St, south of the bridge; Gloucester Street south of the bridge; Junction & Fitzroy Sts Chippendale; Union St off George St north; Little Harbour St off Mill St; Goulburn St between Riley & Edward Sts; Lime St south of Erskine St; Cumberland St between Cribbs lane and Long's lane; Mill St between Hay & Sussex Sts; Kensington St; from Market Street to the silt pit; from the silt pit to the Wharf.LanguageEnglish (eng)Digitised recordYesBorn digital itemNo

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Page number13,55Volume number16

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Public access statusRestricted original (digital copy available)Public access notePlease acknowledge the City of Sydney Archives when using these records.

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Authenticity & integrityThese are the original reports by the Municipal Council of Sydney. The records have been held in the Council’s custody and have a high level of authenticity. Users should be aware that these are historical records and the language used within the records was the language of the time it was captured, and may not reflect current community values or expectations.

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Report submitting the Annual Report of the proceedings under the Water and Sewerage Acts, 1873