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WATER FOR A DROUGHTED METROPOLIS: THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY SCHEME TO SUPPLY WATER TO BRISBANE FROM STRADBROKE ISLAND.
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland . 2011, Vol. 117, p11-20. 10p. - Publication Year :
- 2011
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Abstract
- Drought in the earliest years of the twentieth century stimulated much discussion in Brisbane about the quality of the water supplied to the rapidly growing city. One of the various schemes developed by the Board of Waterworks to obtain better water was the Stradbroke Island Scheme. Although not adopted, its consideration required the close examination of the island's topographic and hydrological features, including an exhaustive survey of the island by Herbert W. Lethem, completed early in 1903. His detailed map and report, together with reports by others such as Board engineers H. G. Foster-Barham (1901) and J. Kemp (1906), and American expert A. Hazen (1907), provide a signifi cant body of scientifi c knowledge of Stradbroke Island. These records portray the island long before the beginning of mineral sand mining (1940s) and municipal water extraction (1990s). This paper is an historical account of the Stradbroke Island Scheme and an assessment of its legacy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *DROUGHTS
*TWENTIETH century
*WATER supply
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- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0080469X
- Volume :
- 117
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 83631309
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.5962/p.357744