EB managed to organise this for us last week.
I've been past this place multiple times and have even peeked in the windows, but I finally actually got to go inside!
One of Canberra's water supply pipes
Very old but also very cool picture of the heights of the various facilities. They prefer taking water from Corin/Bendora because it's gravity fed to the Stromlo treatment plant. They actually only pump from Cotter a few days a month.
Another infographic showing the various water networks
And then we got to go into the pumping room. The pump in the first pic, and the one on the left in the second pic are the original pumps.
The one just behind the first one was put in during an expansion, and is the only pump made in Australia.
Some more views of the room
As they replaced the pumps with more modern pumps, they just left the old ones there and kept expanding the hall
A view back
And then through a doorway to the next part of the hall which is two storeys high and has the two current pumps used for Canberra water supply
Notice the blue wall and black line half way up the wall? (see in previous pics too). That's the level of the 1956 flood. Which inundated the hall to that level. !!
So when they put these pumps in, they put the motors upstairs!
Upstairs looking down into the old hall
These are the motors for the pumps downstairs
Another view out the back
This used to be a worker's cottage
The front of the pumping station
The back of the transformer house
Inside the transformer house
A new pump house. They're going to start building a new pumphouse with four new pumps in August, then decommission the current ones
After that, they're going to turn the old Pumping Station into a full on museum.
Very cool :)
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