SYDNEY'S WATER STORAGE.
ENOUGH FOR TWO YEARS. | 58.000,000.000 GALLONS. \ report submitted to the Sydney Water Board recently showed, that the supply was now satisfactory; No member had an' complaint to mak-J regarding the service in any portion of the metropolitan area. Statistics submitted by the chief engineer showed that there was at present i 3 943,''000,000 gallons of ' water, or sain'■tent for two vears' supply andeir normal "onditiohsL The new reservoir at Avon, which is noaring completion nils the greatest quantity of _ W3t %, the volume last week being J?,Oa|,OQO»000 iraJlons, with facilities; for impounding an additional 20.000.000,000 gallons The Avon reservow will, when completed. bo the largeat storage reservoir of the caik'hment area, and wiJ hold as much water an Cordeaux, Cataract, and Prospect combined Cataract litis. at present 14 797.000,030 gallons, with aocommodatioc for an additional 6.CC0,000,000 SS Vile Co idea us has 12,6.13,000,000 ; gallons impounded, with storage. ''or an additional 8,000,000,000 gallons. Jli
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19502, 4 December 1926, Page 11
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155SYDNEY'S WATER STORAGE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19502, 4 December 1926, Page 11
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